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The Nature of Group Membership and Team Processes
ADLT 612 – Learning in Groups and Teams
Spring 2010
Agenda Reflective Practice: What and Why the
Blogs? Selection of Blog Buddies
What It Means to Become a Member of a Group
Brief Discussion of Readings
Teams Discuss Twelve Angry Men and Work on Team Charter for Group Paper
Early Struggles in the Life of a Group
Question: Does the individual exist for the group, or does the group exist to support the individual?
This bi-polar position fades only when members accept themselves as an entity capable of acting on behalf of its members,
AND When the group accepts the importance of its
individual members
FORMING
Judge: “It's now your duty to sit down and try to separate the facts from the fancy. One man is dead. Another man's life is at stake.. . However you decide, your verdict must be unanimous. …You're faced with a grave responsibility.”
Identifying your Group Memberships
What groups are do you belong to, and how do these shape your identity
Consider family groups, work groups, social or religious groups, etc.
Ladder of Inference
Take action base on belief
Adopt beliefs
Draw conclusions
Make assumptions
Add meanings
Select data
Observable data and experience
Wilfred Bion (1961) found struggle and conflict at both the conscious and unconscious levels of group life. He describe groups as having three basic emotional states:
Dependency (leader)
Fight-flightPairing
Rules Governing Theories-in-Use
Chris Argyris and Donald Schön
To remain in unilateral control
To maximize winning and minimize losing
To suppress negative feelings
To be as rational as possible – defining clear
objectives and evaluating whether they have
been achieved
Model II Behaviors
Provide data to support ideas
Invite inquiry
Open to rigorous testing of theories
Conflict can and does surface
Low defensive behavior
Test assumptions and inferences
Share all relevant information
Use specific examples and agree on what important
words mean
Explain your reasoning and intent
Combine advocacy and inquiry
Jointly design next steps and ways to test
disagreements
Discuss undiscussibles
Use a decision-making rule to generate commitment
Nine Ground Rules for Effective Groups