Small Group Exercise

SCAT 101-1

Analysis Paper

Analyze today's small group exercise in a two-to three page paper. Use the following questions as a guideline, or select an angle of your own. Feel free to use any notes you took during the exercise and use the names of the people in your group to illustrate your points. For example, "I think the exercise was inhibited by Joe not acting as a compromiser. This was exhibited by the way he..."

Don't use the assignment to tear apart your fellow classmates, but try to make it a positive critique and possibly suggest ways in which the assignment could have worked more smoothly. You may want to also focus on your own performance and review how well you performed as a contributor to the group. Some other possible topics are: was it a worthwhile exercise? How would you have structured it differently? What did you learn? Please double-space.

What particular purposes and functions did people appear to have?

Did their position on the issue help or hinder the task at hand?

What kinds of behavior seemed to forward the effectiveness of completing the group’s assignment?

Did anyone act in a way that had not been expected or anticipated?

Exactly how did the leader emerge?

What kinds of behavior made people potential candidates for the leadership position?

Did friendships or group alignments that existed before the start of the exercise affect the outcome of the exercise?

Did any sub-groups appear within the large group?

This assignment is worth 15 pts.

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