Write a 2-page essay about a group experience you have had.
Answer each of the following 5 questions. Be sure to identify each question by its number.
1. Describe the best group member or teammate you have encountered. How did that person’s behavior compare to this chapter’s descriiption of effective team members?
2. Think of a successful brainstorming session or a session with problems in which you’ve participated as a group leader or member. What factors caused the success or led to the problems? If there were problems, what could be done to address them?
3. How can group members adapt to work effectively if the leader is using an authoritarian style and the group would prefer a more democratic style?
4. Using the suggestions and following the examples presented in Chapter 10, draft a brief agenda for an upcoming meeting of a group you’re in. Note, you must following the examples in the text for an agenda–not just list what you intend to do.
5. Review Table 10.1 in your textbook. What other patterns of difficult group behavior have you encountered in groups? How would you suggest dealing with the behavior?
Table 10.1 is on slide 11-13
Agenda checklist is on 36