My Group, Kinder Than You ( Kty )

One of the things that worked well in our group was the willingness of those in the group to listen to each other and entertain various viewpoints. I think that mutual respect is the key when working with groups. Each of us played different roles in the group: some of us were listeners, some of us were leaders, and some who were initially listeners became leaders as the group went on. Within our group we had different personality types and communication styles.

Working in a group to achieve a high quality group project can be one of people’s most difficult school experiences. Working in a group is tough because there is often someone who does not pull their own weight. “There are five stages to group development, adjourning, forming, storming, performing, and norming” (John & Wiley pg 166). Christine’s group from the Case Study the Forgotten Group Member is in between the Storming and Norming Stages. The Storming Stage “is dealing with tensions and defining group tasks,” while the Norming Stage is dealing with high emotionality and tension among the group members” (John & Wiley pg. 166). Christine and her group could have had better

Democratic leadership style is the leadership style I would implement. I would implement this leadership style because I feel that everyone’s opinions and views on the discussion is important. If you get a consensus of group members you get a greater view to make a greater judgment on how to build guidelines. Also getting input from all group members gets people involved and permits them to get their input for decisions that will

Group projects can go one of two ways: you end up becoming close with your members as you power through the assignment or you end up feeling an enormous amount of contempt towards them that sprouts from their apparent incompetence. I’m very glad to say that I enjoyed working with my group members. They weren’t incompetent at all and were actual really nice to do this assignment with.

Authoritarian group leaders are leaders who have complete authority, they are not required to consult with other members of the group in decision-making. I believe authoritarian group leaders are most compatible with the military, an organization ruled by a single party, cults and gangs. According to Gladding (2016), authoritarian group leaders see others members of the group as not having any motivation and rather lazy. Laisser-faire is different from all three style of leadership by not having a leader/facilitator(Gladding,2016).

The leadership style which I believe is the most affective is a democratic leadership. The democratic leadership style encourages team members to voice their option and to be included in the decision making process. When team members are involved in decision making they tend to have more buy in on what is happening in their departments and making necessary improvements. Democratic leadership style tends to create a positive working relationship between employees and leadership. When taking leadership styles into consideration for my project, reducing the number of Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers, this is the leadership role I think will work best. Interviews were preformed to get input from the staff that affects the goal for my project.

Other Comments (as needed):_This was one of the hardest groups I have ever had to work in throughout my college career. We had to very strong personality’s that did not work well with each other (Carolyn and Natalie). First off Jen was great to work with. Many times she was the one to start the project and would email everyone what she was working on. She worked very hard on this unit and I think a lot of the success is due to her hard work. Natalie also put a lot of work and time into this unit. Jen, Natalie and I all worked really well with each other and could communicate ideas and what needed to get done without their being a problem. Larry was a team player but did do much other than write his lessons. If we asked if he would do something

As I said in the introduction, our team used social media, such as, Facebook to contacted with each other. In my view, I think Messenger in Facebook is the best communication way for us because I was able to check if my team members are active now or not as well as Facebook also has the video call function. Our group did not establish any rules or protocols for behaviours because I wanted the members do not feel any pressure. Personally, I think a comfortable spirit creates a better result than anything else. Luckily, each member in the team did quite well for their parts, so we did not have any arguments. I think that each of us had a different role in contributing to the team successful. Hosna and Genesis with their meticulous characteristics, they actually helped us to fix every little mistakes in our parts. Chloe always created the group meeting as well as booked the room for us to practice. I feel that I was the one, who ensure that our group were on the right track and reminded everyone to finish their task. In my perspective, I think that our group developed a sense of belonging to the team. Therefore, we were able to complete the assessment without any

The group I am facilitating met for the first time last week. While doing the required reading for class I pondered on what style of leader I am versus what style of leader I should be. I understand that Laissez-fair leadership is not appropriate for my group as I am working with children. Groups with Laissez-fair leaders have no structure. When working with children structure is needed. I feel that my style of leadership for this particular group should be between Authoritarian and Democratic. I believe I will need to promote appropriate behavior while at the same time letting those whom participate in group cultivate their own potential.

In terms of leadership styles a wide variety exists for one to employ (Boykins, 2013). There isn’t firm consensus as to which styles prove to be the most effective. Different situations call for different approaches. In the article, Empirical Study of Leadership Styles, it discusses several leadership styles that I can relate to.

My feelings about the group process was a little mix at first but, at the end I felt like we actually brought it together. Beginning of the group member were all over the place and had no direction, when we were able to take a breather in just think ideas started to flow. I felt like that took the communicator to make it happen. By reinsuring the other group members that everything will go smoothly if we just don’t overthink everything.

According to McPheat (2010), the main style of the leader is democratic. Democratic leader is who values the team’s ideas and looks for own input in decision-making. Furthermore, this style is tending to motivate members to do their best work (Cunningham, Salomone & Wiegus, 2015). However, even though democratic style values team’s ideas and decision making, leader will have to think about the decision for a long time that might be a disadvantage. The core beliefs and values is being a leader means taking full responsibilities of what the group is doing and in charge of the group. To be able to do this, the leader who is leading the group for the first time needs to learn effective way to become a great leader. As well as guiding them to produce creative ideas or new plans for the work to make it successful. Additionally, leader need to have aims and goals set to achieve during team work, try best to influence the group members, motivate members by assigning them to different variety tasks, instead of making them do same tasks that will make their motivation go down, show own skills to the members so leadership can be proved and gain more trust. However, a leader must overcome some barriers. First, cultural differences. As for this, leader must overcome cultural difference, as not all members are from same culture; it means that their acts of behaviours and opinions will differ and often will

A small group is defined as three to fifteen people, but five to seven members will maximize the groups efficiency (Valenzano, 2017). Groups are a part of every one’s day to day life and are found everywhere. Even from birth, one may have been involved in a group. Groups are found in schools, careers, friendships, everything. Every group varies, and so one would have to learn how to work with different types of people. Having a group to work on a project with can be a helpful thing or a dreading thing. During the process of creating our group presentation, there were a variety of communication concepts that “came to life,” our group had a certain way we could work together, and we figured out how to present the presentation effectively.

My experience with our group leader’s leadership has been very helpful. As I have said before she had a clear picture in her mind of what exactly she wanted from us. She would always ask for suggestions even if one member would have a problem finding certain information. This encouraged and motivated us (Authoritative). At times we did struggle to come to a conclusion thus she made sure that we used different approaches for every situation and the trust made us believe that it is- “Leadership That Gets Results” (Goleman 2000) (Harvard Business Review , March – April 2000). Even though we were a group of seven working together, she split the group further in two two’s and one three’s so that it becomes easier for every individual to focus on the topic assigned by her (Pacesetting). She would make sure everyone is involved (Democratic). This in turn built respect for her. It was the first time ever I was preparing for a presentation, therefore the leadership skills and the emotional intelligence she used to set everything was more than perfect. I learnt a lot

My style of facilitation was the democratic style. Democratic style that was seen in this facilitator group was the conversations in group, encouraging members to share feelings and ideas, and producing all the information obtained into the best possible decision. Distribution of responsibility was also seen in the fifth facilitation meeting. Members shared their own ideas on how not to let social media affect them, and one member said she avoided it entirely. (A.R.,11/08/17, Observation of leadership style).