HPED 1020 Lecture 6: Group Dynamics
6 Feb 2020
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The way people interact with each other within a group environment. Group characteristics: group cohesion: commitment, group morale: feelings, group norms: primary, explicit, critical event, and carry over, group structure: centralized and decentralized, group productivity: achieve goals. Contributor: task oriented, focused on short term tasks, detailed, provides and shares knowledge, high expectations and time oriented, forgets overall purpose, over analytical, may spend time on useless tasks. Collaborator: goal oriented, mission and vision focused, helpful in forming group and reaching end goal, overlooks smaller tasks, may not include others, focused on big picture. Communicator: process focused, consensus builder, resolves conflict, very open and talkative, focus too much on relationships, avoids conflict. Challenger: questions goals and processes, focused on pushing the team, asks tough questions to push creativity, suggests risks, pushes too far, people stop listening, picks fights with other. For a group to be effective, a leader should:
