Group Dynamics

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Group Dynamics
Group Dynamics
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Group Dynamics
Leadership

• Command authority
• Responsibility
• Behavioral styles
• Team building

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Leadership
How does a career totally dependent on highly
technically, skilled individuals, infuse
behaviors such as team building into the work
environment?
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Leadership, cont.
Definition
A leader in a given situation is a person whose
ideas and actions influence the thought and the
behavior of others.
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Leadership, cont.

• competence
• communication skills
• listening skills
• decision-making
• decisiveness
• perseverance
• sense of responsibility
• emotional stability

• enthusiasm
• image
• ethics
• recognition
• sensitivity
• flexibility
• humor
• stamina

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Conflict Resolution

• Positive Conflicts
• internal issues (task related)
• Destructive Conflicts
• external issues
• management policies
• personality factors
• personal weaknesses
• social status

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Conflict Resolution, cont.
Arguments should be over What is right, not Who
is right

• encourage others to express their opinions
• keep discussion on issues needing resolution
• conduct formal debriefs
• bring out all issues of disagreement
• acknowledge and express all feelings
• select a good time and place for debrief

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Team Building
Integration of individual personality strengths
and weaknesses
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Team Building, cont.
Hazardous Attitudes

• excessive professional deference
• halo effect
• spectator syndrome
• strength of an idea
• inability to accept criticism
• airshow syndrome
• impulsiveness
• animosity
• know it all
• high workload
• low workload
• emotional jet lag

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Assertiveness