Discussion:

Working in Groups/Teams"When people are invited to com together to share their ideas, concerns, and needs they become engaged. They more from being passive recipients of instructions to committed champions of decisions. This is the power of deciding together.

As you know, a group or team usually does not begin working together at the highest possible level. Usually, there are stages through which people progress until they get to know more about each other; their purpose for being involved, and what they are expected to contribute both as individuals and as a team.

In the article "Five stages of Team Development: A Case study," you read about these stages, which include forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning.

You also watched a video about team -building strategies in which you learned what makes effective teams work. Some of these elements include mutual trust and respect, making sure each person feels valued as a contributor, a shared mission or goal, personal commitment diversity representative of people and perspectives, and effective leadership.

For this Discussion, think of a time when you were involved in a group situation in which you had to solve a problem, complete a project or tasks, plan an event, or accomplish another type of goal.

Then take time to reflect on everything you have learned about team building and group dynamics and how your learning could apply to that situation.

Answer all of the following questions: A brief description of the group/team situation in which you were involved. Positive and negative interactions and events that took place.

Drawing from what your learned in the course and this week, what you personally could have done to help foster communication in the group and/or improve the dynamics, and what other could have done.

Three strategies you could have used to help improve this group situation. Be sure to cite your sources to substantiate your thinking and ideas. One source is O''Hair, D.Wiemann, M., D. I., & Teven, J. (2015).