Small Group Interview

This family consists of five individuals. The caregivers of the family are the mother and father who have been happily married for twenty years. MS and MS have three children together, AS, MS, and CS. AS is the oldest child who is a male, nineteen years old, and attending college in Staples, MN. The middle child is MS who is a female, seventeen years old, and a senior in high school. CS is the youngest of the family and is female, eleven years old, and attending middle school. The mother has a part-time job, while the father has a full time job. They recently sold their home out in the country and moved closer to town. The interview occurred mainly via phone because of their busy schedules with the parents being the historians of the family.

My group’s category was the school aged child. We interviewed a 10 years old girl, named

Picking someone for this paper was much more difficult than the first one, at immediate thought the only people I knew over the age of 65 were my family members. I started to look into some of my friends’ parents but they were not quite there. Then it hit me, the perfect person to interview would be my friend that passed away in Dickinson, her grandmother. She is one of the most loving, caring, supportive grandparents I have ever met. I have always seen her from that stand point so interviewing her would only help me to understand how she became the way she is today.

For this interview assignment, I interviewed my close friend Franki’s mother, Deborah. Deborah is thirty-nine years old and she lives with her two children, Franki and Jessica, and with her husband Frank. The three topics I decided to interview Deborah on were political beliefs, philosophy of leisure time and the goals in life.

Before I provide some insight to the individual I interviewed, I want to mention that I work as a Business Analyst for an automotive software company called Tail Light. We provide various desktop and mobile applications and an On-Board Diagnostic (OBD) device to automobiles. Our users range from personally at dealerships to the consumer who is purchasing the vehicle. Our DevOps team consist of four individuals who provide expertise in various aspects of our technology and we attempt to bridge the gap between legacy and new products. Our IT personnel is a unique bunch of gentlemen. They laugh at our expense as we, being the user, make the network the most vulnerable. Their area is filled with comic cut-outs of Dilbert and funny innuendoes

The Pearl Chapter 4 Small Group Discussion Questions 1. How does the opening of this chapter parallel the opening of Chapter 3? How is it different? The beginnings of chapter 3 and 4 are very different and similar.

The company I work for is a telecommunications company called Sprint-Nextel, and we work on countless team projects throughout the year. One example I remember in particular is when a brand new store was set up in our area. This new store set-up included roughly 10 team members whose sole purpose was to plan, create, and design a store that fits the mold of all existing corporate stores. This is a very important aspect due to the fact that each new corporate store in the United States must be identical to the others. The reason for this being, that we must all relay the same message in order not to confuse our large customer base.

Starting with the youngest that has been interviewed, Tabitha Moulin, not much was known by them. She took the questions

The first person I interviewed was my cousin Chloe. I was very shocked at what I found with her answers. I have always thought she was somewhat immature, but her answers said otherwise. One question I asked her was what the biggest accomplishment she has had was. Her answer, “getting straight A’s through all of elementary school and most of middle

One word that sums it all up: small groups. Small groups can be defined as, “a voluntary, intentional gathering of three to twelve people regularly meeting together with the shared goal of mutual edification and fellowship” (McBride 24). Small groups can be broken up into four different categories: process-oriented groups- central focus is on the spiritual and/or social relationships among the members, content-oriented groups- consists of Bible study and discussion groups, task-oriented groups- primary goal to accomplish a defined task, job, or assignment, and need-oriented groups- primary reason of this group is a common need among the members; otherwise known as support or recovery groups (McBride 65). A small groups purpose is to make healthy disciples of Christ and to help lead people to a balanced and healthy life (Gladen

For this assignment, I decided to interview a god friend of mine, Anthony Lu, who is eighteen years old. Throughout the discussion, I discovered that he is very much similar to me. For example, we both come from the great state of California. The only difference is that he is from the Northern region of California, while I am from the Southern. Here at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, it is Anthony Lu’s first year and along with majority of the students here, he is studying Aerospace Engineering.

Conducting interviews is fundamental as a case manager. In order to understand more about good interviewing, I decided to watch an interview about an addict mother conducted by Dr. Phil. While watching this interview, I made some notes on attitudes and characteristics that I considered important for good interviewing. The characteristics will be presented in the following paragraphs.

One of the best things about being part of a small group Bible study is having the opportunity to meet on a regular basis with an intimate group of other believers. While attending church and church wide events is a great way to follow God's urging that we have "fellowship one with another," sometimes, there are so many people in church, that you may never feel like you're

Participations in small in-class groups which purpose was to accomplish a task assigned to us by our Professor, were the most powerful learning experiences for me. In developing common focus, as stated in Gitterman and Germain (2008), members need to establish group rules and also remember to “build on one another’s contributions, identify and focus on salient collective themes, invite expression of differences” (p. 174), as well as welcome opinions which are contradictory or different from the majority.

Each member of our group has conducted in-depth interviews with their parents who are in the range of 50-55 years and one of their best friends. The interview lasted for about 10-15 minutes and we have assessed the factor that