Presenting information in front of an audience has never been my strong suit, but working with others towards a common goal has always been fairly easy to me. Although I consider working with other people fairly easy it doesn’t mean that there are no complications when trying to obtain our goal. Working in groups is something that I am familiar with, whether it is an academic group or an athletic team. According to the book Communicating in Groups Applications and Skills, the authors Katherine Adams and Gloria Galanes states that, “A group is three or more individuals who have a common purpose, interact with each other, influence each other and are interdependent” (Adams & Galanes, 2006). Almost all the groups I have participated in have presented
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The complications were not only apparent in our first presentation, but also showed up when creating our second presentation. Some obstacles I faced while being a part of this group were, verbal communication, group think, non-verbal communication and computer mediated communication.
Verbal communication was one of the first problems that my group and I faced when working with each other. Verbal communication has four key characteristics that one should take into account when working in a group. The first key characteristics that group members should know is to adjust to the symbolic nature of the language, meaning to guard against bypassing, be explicit, give specific example as well and quantify if possible (Adams & Galanes, 2006). At least for our first presentation I feel as if my group and I did not do a great job of being explicit to what we were planning so once we actually sat down to discuss what we were doing it surprised me on how all of us had a different approach when it came to presenting our information. Another major characteristic would be to organize the discussion, including your remarks, which basically states to make one point at a time, state your idea …show more content…
Nonverbal communication is anything in a message that is not the word itself (Adams & Galanes, 2006). Nonverbal communication can be anything from facial expressions to body movements. Nonverbal communication took place or at least was more noticeable when my group and I got together, just by observing them I had a clue in which direction to go, but it was my mistake to make decisions based on their body language because of the principles of nonverbal communication. The principles of nonverbal communication consist of 3 rules. The first rule being that nonverbal behaviors are imprecise, meaning that someone may be giving positive reactions to what you are saying, but in reality they don’t agree (Adams & Galanes, 2006). For instance, there was a lot information discussed between my group members that I and based on the reactions I observed I made decisions to what I was going to do. The second principle states people cannot stop sending nonverbal messages even when they are not taking part in the discussion (Adams & Galanes, 2006). An example of this is when I was explaining my ideas to my group members, I made sure to take note of their nonverbal responses because they were sending them even though they weren’t speaking at the time. The last rule of nonverbal communication is that when nonverbal and verbal communication contradicts people usually
The complications were not only apparent in our first presentation, but also showed up when creating our second presentation. Some obstacles I faced while being a part of this group were, verbal communication, group think, non-verbal communication and computer mediated communication.
Verbal communication was one of the first problems that my group and I faced when working with each other. Verbal communication has four key characteristics that one should take into account when working in a group. The first key characteristics that group members should know is to adjust to the symbolic nature of the language, meaning to guard against bypassing, be explicit, give specific example as well and quantify if possible (Adams & Galanes, 2006). At least for our first presentation I feel as if my group and I did not do a great job of being explicit to what we were planning so once we actually sat down to discuss what we were doing it surprised me on how all of us had a different approach when it came to presenting our information. Another major characteristic would be to organize the discussion, including your remarks, which basically states to make one point at a time, state your idea …show more content…
Nonverbal communication is anything in a message that is not the word itself (Adams & Galanes, 2006). Nonverbal communication can be anything from facial expressions to body movements. Nonverbal communication took place or at least was more noticeable when my group and I got together, just by observing them I had a clue in which direction to go, but it was my mistake to make decisions based on their body language because of the principles of nonverbal communication. The principles of nonverbal communication consist of 3 rules. The first rule being that nonverbal behaviors are imprecise, meaning that someone may be giving positive reactions to what you are saying, but in reality they don’t agree (Adams & Galanes, 2006). For instance, there was a lot information discussed between my group members that I and based on the reactions I observed I made decisions to what I was going to do. The second principle states people cannot stop sending nonverbal messages even when they are not taking part in the discussion (Adams & Galanes, 2006). An example of this is when I was explaining my ideas to my group members, I made sure to take note of their nonverbal responses because they were sending them even though they weren’t speaking at the time. The last rule of nonverbal communication is that when nonverbal and verbal communication contradicts people usually