Group Unit Review

Group Maintenance Roles

Centered around team-building

Task Roles

Communication behaviors that help the group address the issue, solve any problems and perform the task

Aggressor

Expresses disapproval, jokes at the expense of others, expresses ill will or envy

Recognition seeker

boasts, calls attention to self, seeks sympathy or pity

Norming

Members begin to get used to each other and build trust

Self-Centered roles

Roles that meet the needs of that individual while harming the rest of the group

Storming

Stage where members may begin to sacrifice getting along to get down to business

Performing

Stage where members reach a point of working cooperatively together because they've built trust

Forming

Stage where members tend to make a strong effort to get along

Dominator

Tries to run the group by giving directions, interrupting and insisting on his or her own way

Confessor

Uses the group as audience for personal mistakes and feelings irrelevant to the task

A Special-Interest Pleader would say this . . .

Which role would say, "Devoting 4 pages to the soccer team is a lot, but we won the state championship.

A Confessor would say this . . .

Which role would say, "Guys, I am having a hard time in school. I don't have time for this."

A Recognition Seeker would say this . . .

Which role would say, "I told you so. You should've listened to me. I was right."

A Dominator would say this . . .

Which role would say, "It's time to vote. We are going to vote by secret ballot, no exceptions."

A Class-Clown would say this . . .

Which role would say, "Let's move this meeting along or I'm ordering food. The only thing I'm interest in is burgers vs. tacos."

A Blocker would say this . . .

Which role would say, "This is a stupid plan and it will never work."

An Aggressor would say this . . .

Which role would say, "This is absolutely the dumbest thing ever."

A Self-Centered Role would say this . . .

Which role would say, "You guys would have been better off listening to me."

Special-interest Pleader

Acts as the representative of one group to the detriment of the group process

Class clown

Avoids involvement in the task by making jokes and cynical comments

Blocker

constantly raises objections and insists that nothing can be done