1. The Nature of Group Membership and Team Processes ADLT 612 – Learning in Groups and Teams Spring 2010

4. FORMING Judge: “It's now your duty to sit down and try to separate the facts from the fancy. One man is dead. Another man's life is at stake.. . However you decide, your verdict must be unanimous. …You're faced with a grave responsibility.”

5. Early Struggles in the Life of a Group

6. Identifying your Group Memberships What groups are do you belong to, and how do these shape your identity Consider family groups, work groups, social or religious groups, etc.

7. Our Collective Group Memberships Identify Who We Are as Individuals

8. Mental Maps

9. Joseph Sweeney Lee J. Cobb

10. To become an effective group, members must integrate individual differences among members

12. Impact of Group Maturity on Group Member Participation

13. Research on Group Process

14. Wilfred Bion (1961) found struggle and conflict at both the conscious and unconscious levels of group life. He describe groups as having three basic emotional states: Dependency (leader) Fight-flight Pairing

15. Aspects of Collective Life in a Group

16. Terms Used by Smith and Berg Paradoxes of Group Life, 1987

18. Discussion of the Facts ?

22. Individual Roles

23. A Group Effectiveness Model