Group Roles: Group Analysis

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Roles are considered to be “a unique set of skills or behavior patterns that serve specific functions within the group” (Engleberg & Winn, 2013, p. 52). Throughout each meeting, both my group members and I took on many task and maintenance roles. The task roles are ones that assist in working towards the common goal by focusing on effective behaviors. During every meeting, each member of the group held the role of the information seeker and giver, as well as the opinion seeker and giver (Engleberg & Winn, 2013). Lily, Amanda, Maddie and I all requested facts and clarification from the instructor during class periods or through email to ensure that we were covering all of the material required. Once we received the information from the instructor …show more content…
She continued to inform us that we were all very smart and we were all trying our best, therefore we should not stress. She also acknowledged all of the work that we have put in and motivated us to continue to work hard because it will all pay off. During the last session of meeting, Lily took on the role as the evaluator; she went through each and every sentence of the paper to fix any errors that may have been presented, as well as changed some paragraphs and ideas to allow the paper to flow better. Lily pointed out areas on the paper that was missing information such as using quotes when explaining how to conduct the project. During the in class meetings, I was the only one who had my laptop, therefore I took on the role of being the recorder. I wrote down everything that was discussed together as a group and added information about suggestions and ideas that may be used in further group …show more content…
During the first meeting outside of the classroom, each member forgot their Cole textbook, therefore we were lost and had no paper to reference from. As a group, we became stressed and did not want to waste our time together, therefore we all became the harmonizer’s to resolve the conflict (Engleberg & Winn, 2013). We stopped what we were doing and decided to start creating worksheets as a group to not waste the time we had together. When deciding on what session to present to the class, each member took on the maintenance role of the compromiser. We all offered suggestions that showed pros and cons of each activity to reach the consensus that stress relief would be the most beneficial and the easiest to work with, especially due to the fact that it does not require the participants to bring in anything of their own (Engleberg & Winn, 2013). Self-centered roles did not seem to form while observing the group, mainly because the entire group was working towards a common and goal and it was rare that an individual member tried to get in the way of