community and bush environments - seminar 8 - group behaviour and needs
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HUMOV1003 Community and Bush Environments
Seminar eightGroup members
Peck’s stages of community
Pseudocommunity
Chaos
Emptiness
Community
Model of group development
The most well known is Tuckman and Jensen’s (1977) model:
Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing
Mourning/adjourning
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Community is “That place where the person you least want to live with, always lives” and “When they move away, someone else
rises to take their place” !!!!
What role do you play in groups?
• Write down privately your perceptions of the role you generally play in groups
– Your strengths/weaknesses in relation to all group work
– How do you interact with the group?– How does the group interact with you?– Do you want to change anything about this?
Understanding Group Needs
Group Maintenance
Needs
Task NeedsIndividual
Needs
Individual Needs
Understanding individual needs and motivation to participate
Recognising basic needs (physical and security)
Recognising individual needs, individuals with problems
Recognising and encouraging talent and skills potential
Creating opportunities for exploring individual interests, training and development
Encouraging by praise, reward and support
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs
Task Needs
Defining the task Making a plan
Possessing competence in all skill areas
Ensuring necessary equipment is available
Giving information, teaching skills
Allocating work and resources
Controlling pace and maintaining standards
Checking performance against plans
Adjusting plans as necessary Winding up
Group Maintenance Needs
Planning group composition Encouraging participation
Maintaining discipline Facilitating communication
Building team spirit, cohesion and trust
Solving interpersonal differences
Relieving tension Building group morale
Training the group Coordination of group activities
Balancing task and group needs
Group member behaviours
• According to Trotzer (2006) there are five categories of group member behaviour …
– Resisting behaviours– Manipulating behaviours– Helping behaviours– Emotional behaviours– Sub-grouping behaviours
• Today’s message …– Before you respond/intervene .. Look beyond behaviour and
try to understand possible cause or contributing factors behind behaviour.
Let’s get creative...