Question 1:
Navigate to http://www.amazon.com. In the search area, select Books and search for the term “small groups.” Notice the large number of titles that appear.
How many books appeared in your search?
Why do you think there are so many books available that discuss small group dynamics?
Explore several products, clicking on links until the product details display, then answer the following questions:
After reviewing several products, do you see anything that the books have in common?
How do the books that you reviewed differ?
Question 2:
Go to the Internet site http://www.workteams.unt.edu/newsletter/Archive/v32.html which offers an issue of the Work Teams Newsletter generated by the University of North Texas. You should see several articles presented in this electronic newsletter.
Provide the titles of three newsletters.
Scroll down to the article titled “Dealing with Human Speed Bumps” and read it. Then answer the following questions:
Have there been times in a social group or study group where you served as a “human speed bump?” Please describe the situation and the outcome.
Looking back on that situation, was there some approach mentioned in the article that someone in your social group or study group could have taken to calm your opposition? Please describe.
In our interactions with social groups, most of us have encountered “human speed bumps,” members of the group that consistently question the group’s decisions. What specific tips presented by the article may work to encourage those people to participate more fully with the group?
