Team Building --- Group Dynamics?!!
Team Building & Group Dynamics
“The Churning” should be rephrased as “The Churning within…” for learning. There is a school of thought that believes that one should fight oneself first in order to win a battle. Five lakh workers taught me that and much more. Being in the core group for preparing the presentation on “Manthan”, I saw both the sides of an action called “taking initiative”. Brainstorming generates ideas, ideas crystallize into actions with mixed opinion of a few – some ideas are dropped, some expanded upon – the result is a product that keeps only a few happy and the rest uninterested.
There is more to Group dynamics than just collective responsibility! Such a responsibility does not find its goal unless the actions are properly executed. Trust & belief play an important role in determining the satisfaction level of participants. Our final presentation was a culmination of everyone’s ideas but a few people’s creativity. In a group activity, since there are many people, I believe it is important that the quality of the product should increase tremendously as all the energies can be routed towards each small detail of the final goal. We missed that!
Observation is a key ingredient in learning. Most of the time, knowledge is right in front of us and we fail to acknowledge its presence and imbibe it! Six people can not have missed the details of a discussion of another six – but I believe the rest thirty can miss the bigger picture. Indeed, I think they did!
My sensitivity to everyone’s reactions and collective decision-making grew by leaps and bounds while I was a part of the observers. There was always a need to put across one’s observation but the eternal question keeps rising – how does a unique idea or observation find its way up to the right platform? Even some of the groups realized that the points discussed by them were not conveyed to the class by their representative. Who is to blame? I think team dynamics gives accolades and blames one and all at the same time!
“The Churning” should be rephrased as “The Churning within…” for learning. There is a school of thought that believes that one should fight oneself first in order to win a battle. Five lakh workers taught me that and much more. Being in the core group for preparing the presentation on “Manthan”, I saw both the sides of an action called “taking initiative”. Brainstorming generates ideas, ideas crystallize into actions with mixed opinion of a few – some ideas are dropped, some expanded upon – the result is a product that keeps only a few happy and the rest uninterested.
There is more to Group dynamics than just collective responsibility! Such a responsibility does not find its goal unless the actions are properly executed. Trust & belief play an important role in determining the satisfaction level of participants. Our final presentation was a culmination of everyone’s ideas but a few people’s creativity. In a group activity, since there are many people, I believe it is important that the quality of the product should increase tremendously as all the energies can be routed towards each small detail of the final goal. We missed that!
Observation is a key ingredient in learning. Most of the time, knowledge is right in front of us and we fail to acknowledge its presence and imbibe it! Six people can not have missed the details of a discussion of another six – but I believe the rest thirty can miss the bigger picture. Indeed, I think they did!
My sensitivity to everyone’s reactions and collective decision-making grew by leaps and bounds while I was a part of the observers. There was always a need to put across one’s observation but the eternal question keeps rising – how does a unique idea or observation find its way up to the right platform? Even some of the groups realized that the points discussed by them were not conveyed to the class by their representative. Who is to blame? I think team dynamics gives accolades and blames one and all at the same time!
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