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Scavenger Hunt Research Paper

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A group that I had to participate in recently was for an event called GISHWHES, or the “Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen”, which is a weeklong scavenger hunt that happens every year in the beginning of August. The purpose of the event is to promote random acts of kindness, all over the world in groups consisting of fifteen people. My group consisted not only of a wide variety of different people from all over the United States, but a few people from other countries as well. In fact, one of the members of my group was from Sweden and another from Argentina. The official team leader was a woman by the name of Courtney, but everybody still had to take charge since the group was separated. In my group we accomplished …show more content…

Primarily it was a service group, but it was technically a virtual group as well. The reason why it primarily was a service group is because the purpose of the group was to spread good will and kindness and all profits go to “Random Acts”, the charity in charge of the event. It was also a virtual group as well because all meetings and communication were never face-to-face, but rather using different forms of technology. The group formed mostly from random mutual friends slowly joining until all fifteen slots in the group were filled. The team leader made the group, and then more and more people started inviting random people they knew until it was a complete group. As all of the members were waiting for the hunt to start, we started talking over the internet in order to get to know each other better. Oddly though, the group was only in the storming stage of group development for a total of half an hour while we were deciding who would do what items once the list was released. This was because since Courtney was the one who made the group, she was assigned leader, and there was no other need for leadership roles until we had to decide on list …show more content…

Task leadership roles “help the group acquire, process, or apply information that contributes directly to completing a task or goal”, while procedural leadership roles, “are sets of communication behaviors that provide logistical support, keep the group focused on the task, and record the group’s accomplishments” (Verderber, Sellnow, Verderber 134). The task roles were filled primarily by two guys by the name of Eden and Nick, and the team leader Courtney. Courtney took the role of an opinion seeker by probing the team for their thoughts and ideas. The other two both took the role of analyzers by scrutinizing any issues with the reasoning of group discussing and trying to analyze how best to complete the tasks for the hunt. The procedural roles were filled mainly by me and two other people by the names of Sam and Kit. While Sam and I both took roles as expediters trying to keep everyone on track and helping to make sure that we got as many items done as we could. Everybody else in the group either switched between roles or never took any

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