Application Assignment: Group Stages

Overview

This week, you examined the various stages of group as well as the dynamics associated with each stage. Assignment will help you to clarify and illustrate your understanding of your own personal approach as a group leader and the importance of understanding potential challenges in group work.

Essay Questions

Create one to three paragraphs for each of the essay questions below.

1. Identify and explain three useful procedures for the beginning stage of a group.

2. What are the seven steps in the group forming stage? Choose one step and discuss why it is crucial to this stage.

3. Name and discuss one potential "people problem" and one potential procedural issue that may occur in the forming stage of a group.

Conclude by reflecting on the following question in 1-3 paragraphs.

Identify some aspect of yourself that you have recently discovered about yourself that had previously been "hidden from your view." Using Lufi's Johari Window describe how you came to be aware of this aspect of yourself.