Group Dynamics
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Working with my team in Group Dynamics throughout the semester proved to be a rewarding, enlightening perspective into how groups and teams work together. We encountered challenges along the way but for the most part we succeeded in setting out what we wanted to accomplish this semester and were able to reach our designated goals.
One of the challenges I encountered first in my team was the varying degrees of trust and friendship I shared with my group members. I had known Karen since we were in undergraduate classes together and had worked with her several times. Denise had been in a few of my classes before but we had never worked together previously. Lastly, John and I had never shared a class together so we maintained the least social relationship compared to the rest of my team. The varying degrees of our social relationships worried me slightly because social relationships in teams can have a profound affect on communication, performance, and motivation (Levi, 2011). In order for our team to perform at its highest functional level we each needed to work on developing our social relationships with each other.
We noticed some of our differences around the time that our first assignment was about halfway completed. During a class session we were asked to rank ourselves in terms of stage we thought our group was in from Tuckman’s Group Development Model; forming, storming, norming, or performing. Interestingly, we all had different opinions as to where we thought our group was within this model ranging from the storming to performing stages. This signified a problem for us since we couldn’t agree on how developed we were and it caused some minor conflict amongst my team members. At this point we worked on further improving our social relationships which we realized were not as developed as they should be for a successful team. We also focused more on creating specific roles for the
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Working with my team in Group Dynamics throughout the semester proved to be a rewarding, enlightening perspective into how groups and teams work together. We encountered challenges along the way but for the most part we succeeded in setting out what we wanted to accomplish this semester and were able to reach our designated goals.
One of the challenges I encountered first in my team was the varying degrees of trust and friendship I shared with my group members. I had known Karen since we were in undergraduate classes together and had worked with her several times. Denise had been in a few of my classes before but we had never worked together previously. Lastly, John and I had never shared a class together so we maintained the least social relationship compared to the rest of my team. The varying degrees of our social relationships worried me slightly because social relationships in teams can have a profound affect on communication, performance, and motivation (Levi, 2011). In order for our team to perform at its highest functional level we each needed to work on developing our social relationships with each other.
We noticed some of our differences around the time that our first assignment was about halfway completed. During a class session we were asked to rank ourselves in terms of stage we thought our group was in from Tuckman’s Group Development Model; forming, storming, norming, or performing. Interestingly, we all had different opinions as to where we thought our group was within this model ranging from the storming to performing stages. This signified a problem for us since we couldn’t agree on how developed we were and it caused some minor conflict amongst my team members. At this point we worked on further improving our social relationships which we realized were not as developed as they should be for a successful team. We also focused more on creating specific roles for the
References: Bolton, & Bolton. Working with Behavioral Styles. Levi, D. (2011). Group Dynamics for Teams. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc.