Communicating in groups applications and skills 10th edition

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Forum 1) Tuckman's Model of Group Development was created in 1965 by psychologist Bruce Tuckman. He used it to describe the path that most teams follow on their way to high performance. Tuckman said that "these phases are necessary and inevitable in order for the team to grow, face up to challenges, tackle problems, find solutions, plan work, and deliver results {Adams,K., & Galanes, G(2017)}.

Group 1, we will use "Developmental Sequence" in small groups to use Tuckman's Model to explain the way the group was able to come to a solution. Group 1, meet as a group of 4, consisting of two women and two men. The first expression was to greet one another and allow each to come up with ideas, information, and communicate together that is called form. Being able to get abling in the group to come up with ideas(storming). First forcing on what the topic was about, and what was the main point,. We were able to discuss the main ideas as a group. The main idea was "how can you relate to overcoming depression? We focus on what it was that makes a person be depressed in the first place. We also were able to come up with ways to communicate without conflict. We were able to discuss the main topic of depression(morning). What's the main reason a person suffers from depression and how to deal with it. Each member is able to express their feelings on the topic of depression. This makes it easier to come up with ideas and remain focus on others as well as ourselves. After discussing all the reasons we believe that a person is depressed, we were able to come up with a solution (performing). We all knew that at one time or another, we all suffer from depression of some kind. After the group was dismissed, we all decided to stay in touch with one another. We discovered that the group had more in common when dealing with depression. Each group member sufferers from dressing weather its being along, or from work or other challenges. The group remains friends to this day and communicates from time to time to see how the others progress.

Digital Resource: Adams, K., & Galanes, G. (2017). Communicating in groups: Application and skills (10th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. eISBN-13: 9781259983283

Forum 2) Tuckman’s model of group development is a model used to describe typical stages of how groups develop (Adams, p. 91). This model assumes that groups move in 5 stages in a certain order (Adams, p. 91). There was a time at work where I actually learned the process of Tuckman’s Model of Group Development stages with a coworker. She taught me that in the forming process is when you are first meeting the group of people. I was the new comer and the group was already formed before I got there, so I was forming them or getting to know them as they were forming me. The idea in the forming stage is to focus on getting along with the group (Adams, p. 91). In the forming stage everyone attempts to avoid conflicts and controversy with primary tension (Adams, p. 91). In the next stage, storming, the members of the group begin to tackle important issues and strong feelings (Adams, p. 91). In this stage, I was working through my conflict of being a new supervisor, with my own way of doing things, with the conflict of those that have been there before me an already had the way things were supposed to go. There were many small conflicts that needed to be overcame such as differences in opinions and defending points of views for myself and for the other individuals. In the third stage, norming, we worked together to get through the conflicts, to be able to thrive as a workable team. There were rules and boundaries established to help work through initial conflicts. Since we were still getting to know one another it was necessary to learn skills and abilities of myself and those of my new group so that we all felt like a part of the group. The fourth stage, performing, allowed us to work together as a group. We were able to work interdependently of one another, learn what our own responsibilities were as individuals in the group, and how we identified as individuals within the group. In the last stage of the development model, adjourning, the tasks that were assigned to us as a group is complete. This happened right before I was in the process of separating from my group. I had formed a positive relationship with a few of the group members that lasted beyond the group, but when I left that was the end of the group’s life with me included.

References

Adams, K. a. (2017). Communicating in Groups Applications and Skills. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.