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This document discusses tips for successful teamwork and collaboration. It identifies key behaviors of successful teams, such as seeking and sharing information, summarizing discussions, and coordinating work. It also notes that enjoyable teams encourage participation, relieve tensions, and listen actively. The document outlines potential negative group behaviors like blocking, dominating, or withdrawing. It describes different leadership styles for groups and strategies for avoiding issues like groupthink and conflict. Some tips for collaborative writing include taking extra time, being familiar with each other, having clear responsibilities, and revising and editing work together.
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Module 18 - Lecture
- 1. Working and Writingin Teams Module 18 Date
- 2. Members of successfulteams... ✤ Seek information and opinions. ✤ Give information and opinions. ✤ Summarize. ✤ Evaluate. ✤ Coordinate.
- 3. Members of enjoyableteams... ✤ Encourage participation. ✤ Relieve tensions. ✤ Check feelings. ✤ Solve interpersonal problems. ✤ Listen actively.
- 4. Negative Behaviors ina Group ✤ Blocking ✤ Dominating ✤ Clowning ✤ Withdrawing
- 5. Type of Leadershipin Groups ✤ Informational ✤ Interpersonal ✤ Procedural
- 6. Leading without Arrogance... ✤ Smile ✤ Share ✤ Suggest ✤ Think ✤ Volunteer ✤ Ask
- 7. Characteristics of Successful Groups... ✤ Setting clear deadlines, scheduling frequent meetings, and dealing directly with conflict. ✤ Listening to criticism and making important decisions together.
- 8. Groupthink ✤ the tendency for groups to put such a high premium on agreement that they directly or indirectly punish dissent.
- 9. How to avoidGroupthink ✤ Consciously search for additional alternatives. ✤ Test assumptions. ✤ Encrouage disagreement and protect the right of people in a group to disagree.
- 10. Responding to GroupProblems... ✤ Make sure that the people involved really disagree. ✤ Check to see that everyone’s information is correct. ✤ Discover the needs each person is trying to meet. ✤ Search for alternatives. ✤ Repair bad feelings.
- 11. Effective Responses toCriticism... ✤ Paraphrasing. ✤ Checking for feelings. ✤ Checking inferences. ✤ Buying time with limited agreement.
- 12. You-Attitude in Conflict Resolution... ✤ What do you think of our text’s discussion of you-attitude in conflict resolution on page 325? ✤ What do you think of the examples they offer?
- 13. Stages of CollaborativeWriting... ✤ Planning ✤ Composing ✤ Revising ✤ Editing and Proofreading
- 14. More tips fora successful group... ✤ Extra time. ✤ Familiarity. ✤ Responsibility. ✤ Sensitivity. ✤ Written agreement is better than oral agreement.
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- 17. (18.1) What arethe three kinds of group leadership?
- 18. (18.2) What isgroupthink?
- 19. (18.3) How doyou use you- attitude during conflict?
- 20. (18.4) What strategiesproduce the best co-authored documents?
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- #5 Blocking: Disagreeing with everything that is proposed.\nDominating: Trying to run the group by ordering, shutting out others, and insisting on one's own way.\nClowning: Making unproductive jokes and diverting the group from the task.\nWithdrawing: Being silent in meetings, not contributing, not helping with the work, not attending meetings.\n
- #6 Informational - researcher, idea-person, makes connections\nInterpersonal - on-task, motivating, resolves conflict, gets members involved\nProcedural - deadlines, planning, recording, rules, requirements, formatting\n
- #7 Smile: conveys positive emphasis, attractive, puts people at ease\nShare: your strengths, weakness, needs, resources, what’s useful to them\nSuggest: offering, as opposed to arguing; possibilities\nThink: critical thinking with tact\nVolunteer: contribute at least your share to resources, time, effort, etc.\nAsk: bring other people into the conversation\n
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- #13 You-Attitude in Conflict Resolution\n
- #14 Planning the Work and the Document\nComposing the Drafts\nRevising the Document\nEditing and Proofreading the Document\n
- #15 Allow time to discuss problems and find solutions.\nGet to know group members.\nBe a responsible group member.\nBe aware of differences in seeing things and expressing ideas.\nRemember that oral agreement may not lead to a strong written document.\n
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- #18 \ninformational\n\nprocedural\n\ninterpersonal.\n
- #19 \nGroupthink occurs when members of a group place such a high value on consensus that they punish dissenting voices.\n\n
- #20 \nAvoid you statements when expressing your own feelings during conflict. Instead, use I statements so that the statements feel less like a personal attack. \n\n
- #21 Allowing time to discuss problems and find solutions.\nGetting to know group members.\nBeing a responsible group member.\nBeing aware of differences in seeing things and expressing ideas.\nRemembering that oral agreement may not lead to a strong written document.\n
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