Small Group Communications (Comm 231)

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Disagreements are unavoidable in any business. A humble stage of disagreement can be helpful in creating enhanced thoughts and approaches, stimulating apprehension and resourcefulness, and motivating the appearance of long-suppressed tribulations. Conflict resolution approach must intend at keeping disagreement at a stage at which different thoughts and viewpoints are completely voiced but uncreative conflicts are discouraged. Encouragement of conflict situations is suitable if the project leader recognizes circumstances of 'group-think.' Group-think is a circumstance where disagreement hardly ever occurs because of high-minded group unity, which results in poor choices and insufficient production. Group-think conquers when there are a large number of members in a group that just agree with anything, with the outcome that there is no grim assessment of the circumstances and innovative thoughts are not recommended. Group members connect larger significance to status, stillness and calm in the group relatively than to procedural capability and capability. Members are unwilling to voice their impartial outlook in order to shun away from offending the

My expectations for Small Group Communications were probably too high to begin with. When I chose my class schedule during the summer, the course name stood out to me the most because it was related to my major at the time – Journalism. The reason I feel like my expectations were let down is because students who have taken similar classes with professor Glumac led me to believe that it would be fun and games all the time – not to say that is all a class should be but it was more lecture then anything and that becomes boring swiftly. What I will be able to take from this class is the skills on how to work in any kind of group setting, which I am very appreciative of, especially seeing that I had multiple groups in other courses this semester.

I begin to divert the group off task by my obnoxious loud singing, asking irrelevant questions, and interrupting the members when they are trying to finish their statement. For example, when Damien, the Gatekeeper would make a relevant statement towards our goal about why people choose not to stay at CSU. I would interrupt and announce my opinions about Georgia State, such as I love the parties there, and they are a livelier college. As I continue to talk about my past experience parties at GSU. I notice that everyone in the group begins to agree with my statement, and engage by adding in their own experiences about GSU parties thus, getting them off tract of their initial goal. However, this disruption did not last long, Damien uses a promotive communication approach by keeping the group on track and moving forward in completing our goal. Damien would recall our attention back to the four functions, and get everyone involved and contributing. An example of this is when Damien frequently ask Austin questions that help contribute towards our group session, even though Austin’s role in the group was to be isolated. Another factor that made our group successful in decision making is, Josh. Josh is the information seeker and always seemed to get the group back on tract, specially whenever I interrupted or when the group disagreed in a conflict matter. Josh would use the counteractive approach to get things settled down and back to normal. For example, he would say, “ok guys let’s get back to the group work, and we can talk about that later”. In my opinion if it was not for his leadership, our group would have a tougher time staying focus on our main

In COMM330 we picked and social controversy and worked in groups of five to create multiple written assignment that would untimely be perfected and put together at the end of the semester. This class seems very similar in the sense that group work will be very prominent as well as the preparation of multiple written pieces that will then be placed together to create a essay. I think that this will be easy for me to due to the classes that we have taken in the past. COMM402 also allowed us to practice writing an eight page paper with four other people. This is difficult to perfect due to everyone’s different writing styles and organization when it comes to personal deadlines. I used to not enjoy working in groups because I have had my share of bad experiences, but eventually I was surrounded with people who were serious about the work they were doing and finally found working in groups easier and more interesting. There are more opinions to bring to the table and it is actually an opportunity to learn within a smaller community. My internship this summer also allowed me to finally create a legitimate resume and become familiar with how exactly to write one successfully and

In terms of communication, I have discovered that I am susceptible to groupthink. This is due to my preference to avoid conflict, which subconsciously makes me agreeable with others (Bonebright 2010). In the future, I should stand my ground if I believe my perspective is correct, and politely ask others to explain the rationale underpinning their view. This will lead to a better outcome. Indeed, I have learnt moderate amounts

I frowned, and internally berated myself for allowing myself to be put in such a position. I sighed, realizing that I did, after all, have no one to blame but myself. As I took my place at the table, the frostiness from one side was almost palpable. Perhaps I was overthinking it, but she certainly did not look up when I sat down, whereas the other two greeted me cordially, at least on a surface level. After all, who can blame them, does any student truly enjoy group projects? I realized very quickly that we were getting nowhere fast, and I did not have all day to waste. Patience was running thin, and tempers were beginning to flair. However, any suggestion I made was immediately stonewalled by Jess, who sat opposite me. I realized then that I would have to change my strategy if I were to make any headway in the meeting. To this end, I resolved to employ integration and rationality in order to create order and progress within our group project and avoid an imminent rebuttal. I chose these two because ingratiation and rationality can be powerful tools in the repertoire of any communicator looking to convince another disinterested party. To this end, I

done are my brochures. My first strategy I implement in my business writing is clarity. I want to

Looking back on the course, GEB3213 – Advanced Communication in Business, I have learned and implemented how to work in a team scenario as well as improved my individual writing skills. I believe that my biggest lesson learned was writing my resume. My current resume was one that I have been using for quite a while so it was very mediocre. By improving my resume based off of what I learned in this class, it now sounds more professional and clear. My favorite assignment throughout this course was the Industry Profile Report. I want to specialize in long-term care, so to dig deeper into a company that specializes in the elderly or needy adults was very intriguing.

Another concept the book discusses is ethical behavior in group communication. If you are ethical you act civilized. In group settings, this involves following rules, being respectful, and overall well-mannered. My group was able to follow this by being respectful when others talked, being honest with each other, and finishing with the highest quality project. These things, overall, helped us create a responsible group. We knew we could trust each other to get things done, and if we had ideas to share, they would be open mindedly listened too. Having a group with good ethical behavior allowed us to accomplish tasks with less

The communication decisions I would change would me minimal, if assignment 11 was to create, organize, outline, and deliver an effective persuasive appeal speech. For example, step 1 is define communication goal. Instead of the purpose being to inform it would simply change to persuade. Next, step 2 is to evaluate receiver/situation. I wouldn’t change anything in this step because it doesn’t matter what is your purpose you still have to consider the variables such as interference. Lastly, step 3 is to create the message. In this step I would also do some changes because my word choices would change because I am not informing my audience, I am persuading them and therefore I need to choose words that would help me persuade my audience.

Humans act toward people, things, and events on the basis of the meanings they assign to them. Once people define a situation as real, it has very real consequences. Without language there would be no thought, no sense of self, and no socializing presence of society within the individual. (Socio-cultural tradition)

In this assignment, I am looking at communications in several different ways. These are to, Understand the importance of the role of communication in the workplace;

This team project was among the more challenging team projects I have worked on. Some of that is due to the short time given for the scope of the project, some due to the number of people in the group, and finally some to individual willingness to contribute to the team effort. Our team struggled to gain cohesiveness starting with a group member missing the first meeting and another one stating they were too busy to meet during the week or on the weekend. They were reminded that we all had to make personal efforts to meet and complete the requirements of the project. Once we moved through these initial “bumps” we brainstormed as a group to come up with an idea for our crisis. We gathered several ideas and ultimately voted (those were present at the meeting) on what our topic would be, who would fulfill what roles and the responsibilities we would assume. We left that meeting with a basic understanding of our project. I have had a lot of experience working in groups both in school and professionally, and some of the above-mentioned challenges we encountered are not unique either in the academic or professional setting. I choose to keep tension to a minimum within in the group as far as confronting individuals (unless I absolutely must- I subscribe to “you catch more flies with honey, than vinegar”, but I will pull out the vinegar if needed). I have found if your approach is confrontational, accusatory (you didn’t do this, you don’t do that) and angry when you are

We have introduced a new form of diversity for the concept of mobile communications system of cooperation. Cooperation by mobile phone users for each user is assigned. Cooperation can be considered as a new form of space diversity, antenna diversity in the transmission process, however, and other complications, Intermobiles noisy channels, each phone has sent a separate message. (W. Yu and T. Lan, 2007, pp. 2646–2660)