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Group work

 

What worked well in a group?

  • Cooperation and willingness sacrifice/compromise/give and take
  • Agreeing to differ
  • Shared activities
  • Feeling that everyone is involved and contributing in some way
  • Meeting regularly and having a good laugh
  • Awareness that everyone's different features and strengths and weaknesses is what makes them invaluable to the group as a whole
  • Mixed sex members
  • Good sense of humour
  • Be what you are
  • Never allowing disagreements to run on

 

What didn't work well in a group?

  • Not having fun
  • Subdivision cliques
  • Power struggle - too many people wanting to be leader
  • Bullying
  • Not being honest
  • Not responding to non-verbal cues
  • Meeting too often or not enough or too focussed
  • Lack of enthusiasm
  • Group too big
  • Lack of agenda
  • No protected time
  • Lack of respect for other peoples opinions
  • Taking sides
  • Hierarchy
  • Stirrers and underminers
  • Forced participation
  • Self-centred goals (own agenda)
  • Bringing outsiders in
  • Breaking trust/group rules
  • Pressure to conform/comply

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