Analysis Paper One

Nonverbal Communication

How nonverbal messages are coming into play is that our group “The Sensational 6” we

show a lot of facial display and body-languages. In the book on chapter 6 pages 116-119, it talks

about the types of nonverbal communications and why we use them. I have notice that when my

group meet, we tend to have eye contact with that specific person who is talking. It shows that

the more eye contact we use, the interaction increases. When eye contact comes into play, it

shows that we all pay attention to one another and respect one another and their opinion. Another

nonverbal communication is posture. I have notice that the day when you split up the groups and

formed new groups, the postures of my team mates have changed. To me, it seemed like the

body postures looked like they weren’t has comfortable as if they were in their original group. I

saw that not a lot of them were opening up as well because to be honest, I wasn’t ready to open

up to other groups either.

Norms

The norms that we have in my group so far are that everyone is responsible for their own

action and behavior. Everyone respects one another and do what they are expected to do. One of

the types of norms that my group has is the implicit norm. Whenever we do something that is a

group effort or just an individual, we always praise as a group or just that individual. An example

of that would be when we were in class on February 18th

, the day we took our first quiz and we

got to take that quiz as a group, my group did well working together although there were some

conflicts where one person would said oh I remember this one, and then another person would

say I do too but your answer is not the answer that I have. Even though we had conflict we

resolved it. After being done with the quiz, my group told one another “good job group” Even

though my group didn’t score that will on the quiz that just encourages us to strive through a

different method next time. Our norms have effect us a lot since we’ve had a couple members

missing class on days where we had a couple of minutes in class to meet up with our group. But

that has become a norm where we as a group know that it’s our responsibility to arrive on time

and only miss class if it’s an emergency. My group doesn’t really have attendance problem

which is a good thing.

Roles

We have had some major roles that have been filled. One of them is the recorder. She has

provided a folder for us to keep our researches in there and just to be organized. She and myself

have record some of our meetings that we’ve talked about and have posted them on blackboard

or emailed them out. Another role that has been filled is the summarizer. Every time we conclude

our meeting, she would always summarize up what we’ve talked about and will always remind

us to do more researches or what will be our next step in the process. Honestly, every time when

my group meets, there will always be someone who does these specific roles. I’ve notice that we

do alternate the role. It’s not like one person is stuck doing the same role over and over again.

Also whenever we come together as a group, someone will always fill in role whenever it is

needed. A role that is missing from out group is the tension reliever. To me, it seems like my

group is always trying to finish things and not really relaxing or trying to have fun. I believe my

group needs that sometimes. The roles that I am and had played in my group are I have been the

initiator where I propose new ideas and have given ideas of ways how to approach our problems.

I’ve also played the encourager, supporter, and process observer.

Leadership

How leadership is like in my group is we have someone who usually starts things off first

like what we need to do, where we are, and the process we all plan to take. That means that we

have a vision leader where he/she has a vision where to lead the group into. Also, we have a

leader who assigns things to the members to get it done and in the right form that can get the

group somewhere we want to be. In our group the leadership is running good so far meaning that

we have had some accomplishments and success. The effectiveness of the leaderships is very

effective. We get things done on time and when one member doesn’t understand something, we

always have someone to clarify it out. This effect the group in a very big way to where we all

know what we’re doing and that helps encourages us to help each other out as well.

Analysis Paper Two

Cohesion

Yes, my group is cohesive. My group does count on each other to do what they are

supposed to do and we all do trust each other. We are all comfortable enough to share our

thoughts and feelings about a particular subject. It’s a phases of group development called

storming on Chapter 4 page 68-69. We can either use it wisely and help each other or make it a

conflict for our group. I believe that my group, when we come together as a group, that sets an

influences for all of us to keep that motivation and willing to contribute to our group and our

adhoc topic. Sometimes in my group there are groupthinks that are involved, but everyone tries

to think outside the box. We try to have very little conflicts within our group but if it’s necessary

to talk about it and see what the whole group thinks then we let the groupthink comes into play

but we do have facilitators to watch over our groupthink talks.

Conflict

Yes there were conflicts but very little conflicts. Our groups have had some

miscommunication and has had too much of accountability on members. There was this one time

in class; I believe it was on February 25th

when we got our topic back from the professor and she

said that our topic was too broad and we need to lower it down to where we focus on a particular

subject based on our topic. As my group was talking, I brought up idea where we can talk about

child obesity within the minority such as Asian, Hispanic, African American, and ect. One of the

member said that we should just focus on gender as male and female. We kind of talked to where

we didn’t understand each other because I felt that she disowned my idea and what I had to say

but we both talked it over and how we both resolved it was it was just a misunderstanding of

each other. Another conflict that we had was that some of the members’ dose off and how we

solved that conflict is where we do a check to make sure that everyone is on the same page and

everyone is down to earth. Overall, my group hasn’t really had conflicts.

Diversity

How the culture impacted the group was for me, my group didn’t really know what

ethnicity I was. When I shared who I am and where my family were original from, that did open

up their perspective of viewing me. I have notice that females overrule the males in my group.

There are four females and two males in my group. The males don’t really talk until one of us

girls ask them what they think and what their input or output is. For age range, my group

members are about the same age. I found out that I was the youngest in my group and sometimes

I feel that since I’m younger and I have not taken classes to bet their level I do feel down

sometimes. Most of my group members are at the same range of age expect me. Since I was

raised that the older youth, I should respect and listen to what they have to say, so that is why I

don’t say much in my group unless I feel the need to speak up. I believe that my group is a little

of heterogeneous and homogenous. We’re all different when it comes to thinking and viewing

things when working together, we all work and like to work and get things done. How this

impacted the group is we did get along because we had similarity within the group. We weren’t

shy with one another and we are pretty open towards one another.

Overall evaluation

Yes I did feel heard and I did feel like I was a part of the group. This is a positive

experience for me because what I learn from being a group I can take it as an encourager and

when I work with another new group in the future I know what to expect. The major element that

I have learned is just being on the same page and communicating with one another. Be open

minded and don’t stump on someone else’s ideas because I have that done on me and it didn’t

feel too good. Over all this is a good experience for me so far.