COM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Team Dynamics, Pitch Shift

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Communication
• Course: COM 100
• Professor: Muccino

Document Summary

Enhances the chances of remembering the subject matter. Self improvement through feedback from other group members. Small group communication consists of communication among a small group of people who share a common purpose, who feel a sense of belonging. Team a coordinated group of people organized to work together to achieve a specific common goal, clearly defined responsibilities, defined rules of operation, clear goals, develop a way of coordinating their efforts. Working in virtual teams (types of virtual communication): Task roles behaviors that help the group achieve its goal and accomplish its work (initiator/contributor, info seeker, opinion seeker, info giver, opinion giver, elaborator) Social roles focus on behavior that manages relationships and affects the group climate, resolve conflict (encourager, harmonizer, compromiser, gatekeeper, follower, tension rel. ) Individual roles focus attention on the individual rather than the group (not helpful) (aggressor, blocker, recognition seeker, self-confessor, joker, dominator, help seeker) Norms standards that determine what behavior is appropriate and inappropriate in a group.