Small Group Communications (Comm 231)

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)

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

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This is the 6th call to this address in 4 days. This call stated that Laura Walters was pushed out the window by her husband Edward Stabell.

There are many different kinds of groups that exist between college students that deal with communication they range from sports teams to many community or social groups. The type of organizations that are mostly found in many colleges today are Greek letter organizations. In this paper I will exploring communication within the realm of sororities. First, I am going to start with the history of Sororities, then I am going to write about how important it communication is during what sororities call the pledge process. Furthermore I am going to tell about the different things that sororities have, such as the symbols, colors and different things that may deal with communication. Even though all sororities have different representations for

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

Study groups consists of several members, and therefore every person will have their own personal opinions. It can be how to write a paper, what they want to write about and so on. At times this will not cause problems since the members have similar opinions and therefore everything works for them. However, at times these opinions are as different as it can possibly be and the group members are left wondering what to do now. The worst thing to do is to start being stubborn and have every member come with reasons

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.

For instance, when reviewing proposal guidelines, there were often differences of opinions regarding the importance of adhering to different guidelines. Some group members did not see the importance of including or retracting different material, while others felt that specific guidelines were very important to adhere to. In order to address this problem in the future, I plan to encourage group members to reach out to the question and answer forum to clarify any conflicts of interpretation that we might have as a group. Also, we received feedback on our proposal that included some mistakes that would have benefited from more time spent editing the proposal. Moving forward as a group, we will allocate more time for editing

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

When you look at group dynamics, you see how individuals can work together as a team working together to obtain a common goal in a group setting (Verderber, Verdeber, & Sellnow, 2011). When in a group setting you want to remember these five rules of be committed to the group, keep discussion on track, complete your individual assignment, encourage input from others, and manage the conflict among members in the group. If you break these down the individuals need to be committed to the group by using everyone’s expertise in reaching the goal of the group (Verderber, Verdeber, & Sellnow, 2011). When discussing the goal make sure that the team stays on track and if they tend to steer away someone needs to remind them kindly to stay on track (Verderber, Verdeber, & Sellnow, 2011). Make sure that the work is divided among the group and that each individual completes the task that they were assigned (Verderber, Verdeber, & Sellnow, 2011). Sometimes there are those in a group that do not say much, but may have some good insight that needs to be encouraged to share (Verderber, Verdeber, & Sellnow, 2011).The last step is to there may be some conflict in the group and could be beneficial, but it needs to be handled correctly (Verderber, Verdeber, & Sellnow, 2011).