Small Group Communication Analysis

In my opinion, group work is a type of cooperative learning that helps people to accomplish a certain task in a faster and more effective manner. Team working also helps to achieve the tasks that are impossible to finish by one individual. However, if people in a group have a lot of conflicts, group work will not be able to achieve as much as we expected. There are many reasons which lead to dissatisfaction in group work such as individualism as well as conflicts in opinion and time.

When I was 19 I spent 2 months in Turkey on a team of 9 people for a missions trip. One thing we struggled with a lot was being able to effectively communicate with each other. Throughout our time there we began to learn how to better communicate with one another and work together and by the end of our trip we had gotten the hang of what kind of communication worked best. One of the last days we put on a church service and it was amazing to watch how we were all able to listen and delegate work to each other and put on an amazing service. One of the most aspects of collaboration in our team was being able to listen to everyone’s ideas and then be willing to go with the best idea for the team, even if it wasn’t your own. When we were able to listen to one another and effectively communicate with one another it made the collaboration in our group flow better.

Welcome Edward to Bravo Team Company. We have many different groups within Bravo Company, and as a manager you will need to be up to speed quickly on some of the common communication barriers within the company. The common barriers, such as Disruptive team members, language, listening, and group think, are some of the ones that we have seen in the past. I have given examples and also techniques on how some managers have handled these barriers. I also wanted to let you know a little about conflicts in groups, which can

Through the course of this semester, each member of our group has developed different roles and these roles have played an important part in our group. However, it was not until the peer evaluations assignment in the end of the semester that we realized the major roles we have played in our small group communication, but we realized it over the whole semester. According to the list of informal roles that group members can assume by Benne and Sheats, our group leader Qihong Zheng is the recorder and group observer. Jingting Sun is the orienter (summarizer) and Standard setter. Yu Ge is the coordinator and compromiser. Zhe Su is the elaborator and encourager. Jiaxin Li is the opinion seeker and follower. Tianyi Huang is the energizer and gatekeeper.

Roles: Our individual roles were not very clear from the beginning and because of that we ended up not filming until the days before the draft was due. One of the group members insisted on using Facebook as the means of communication between our group. I tried to get the group to meet up a couple to times in person to sort out what we were going to be doing, but they were not on Facebook and we did not exchange numbers so it was hard to get hold of people. When we did meet up only half of the group members ever attended which made it complicated because not everyone wasn’t there to hear what was said. Even when we were there we got nothing written down as they kept saying we cannot do anything until we hear what Gareth has to say about the Transitions. I felt our roles just become complicated

Rapport is a platform for a relationship, built through a middle ground connection. It is essential to build rapport with group members, in group work, to facilitate the task at hand. During the initial group meeting, I attempted to build rapport with members of my group to get to know them and their goals better. After the initial meeting concluded I had confidence in knowing that my group members and I had the abilities to work well together.

I am considering being a communication major because I have an appreciation for verbal and nonverbal messages. I believe that through strategic and knowledgeable engagement with another party you can relay your message successfully to your audience. Communication is a complex discipline because of the distinct paths an individual may chose to take while exploring this major. The topics that stand out the most to me from my previous Communication courses that I have taken, topics that stand out to me is group development and leadership roles. In Comm 140: Small Group Communication we focused on how a group is created, identified the characteristics of each member of a group, and analyzed the lifespan of a group's existence.

This group online communication exercise was quite different from other team assignments I have previously involved, and worked on in academic settings and professional situations. During the scheduled time period, we were required to interact with teammates remotely and exchanged ideas using selected electronic communication tool (i.e. Google Handouts). The case scenario was provided to us at the start of this team exercise, we were tasked to identify and analyze issues that placed the subjected company in crisis, and the finished product was to deliver our recommendations to the board of directors via PowerPoint presentation within a couple of hours. Given the assignment requirement of quick turnaround time, I anticipated that we would be

To evaluate my development of these skills are not so hard. I think that my performance was not as bad as I thought. Firstly, in my opinion understanding group mate feelings was way easier than accomplishing body language gestures. Client (group mate) face tells everything about his/her mood. Secondly, I tried to think about every step before doing SHOVELER while I was in a helper role. However, it was too hard to complete the challenge correctly and I tend to believe that only practice makes perfect. It means that by the time I would not need to think about all these steps and would do it instantly without hesitation. In that period of time it was not enough to learn at least a small part of body language

In group one, the main component that seems to be working the best for everyone is our communication method. We developed a group message, primarily because texting is easily accessible for all four of us and definitely a common form of communication we are all used to. Moreover, Google Docs is also working well, I will share documents and open access for everyone to edit. This seems to work efficiently because we are all extremely busy and can work on the documents on our own time or at the scheduled meeting time. Moreover, everyone in the member has open access to every document and can express their own thoughts regarding the writing. So far in our group there has not been a significant problem which has emerged. Thus far, everyone has completed

The main problem for our group was that we didn’t met face to face, besides our class hours to discuss about our paper. This problem was solve by contacting each other through email and text messages. Some time it was hard for us to communicating each other because some of us don’t check our HACC mail when we are out of the school, but we mange to take to each other by text.

The small group can be defined as a group that have at least three and no more than fifteen members working independently for accomplishing goal (Myers A., & Anderson C., 2008). Communication in a small group is a necessary component of the life of every individual in the world. People use communication to transfer information to others. Even at work people used to be a part of a small group in order to accomplish some project or express their views on some topic. Learning how to work effectively in a group situation is key to success in many professions as well as in social situations. This is not an easy task because the group is composed by different type of personality; so different point of view. This makes the work difficult, but encountering and working with different temperaments and personalities, we are developing ourselves, we are socializing, and of course, we achieve a completely unique the results of our work by our dissimilarity and heterogeneity

Furthermore, establishing mutual and interesting grounds for completing the task at hand will hopefully promote such zeal. If these two ingredients exist, then the other aspects of trust should fall into place. Members should be eager to attend meetings, contribute ideas and prepare delegated assignments.

In a school setting I have very little experience working in groups. I have always been part of classes where presentations and work is performed individually. However, I like to collaborate with others. I am willing to do my best to help the group be successful in this class. In my job, we work as a team, which has helped me become more comfortable with team work.

In our day-to-day lives we use communication at nearly every turn. Whether we are talking, texting, or not even speaking, we are sending verbal or nonverbal communication cues to the people around us. For this reason, communication is a vital aspect of our everyday lives. Especially when we work in groups, it is important to pay close attention to our communication skills in order to work well with our group members. Even in situations where conflicts arise within groups, communication is the key to resolving problems. Overall, communication helps us to achieve our goals and maintain relationships with those we care about.