Facilitating Group Analysis Assesment

Running head: Facilitating a group
Facilitating a group
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Answer to question 4
Reflection is the process that provides benefits to learn from one’s own experience by
allowing g the individual to connect an observation and feelings as well as experience
together. It is nothing but a learning process that plays important role in facilitating a
particular group. Starting from giving meaning to the experience to creating sense of
accomplishment, it helps the group facilitators in many aspect (Boud, Keogh & Walker,
2013). It is also advantageous in individual and team development process by providing a
clear picture of analysing opportunity and limitation of a particular process or service.
Answer to question 5
Group norms are set of certain informal code of conducts and guidelines of
behaviours, which provides conformity and orders for conducting the group activities as well
as operations in an organized manner. These norms or rules are eventually developed and
followed by the group members. Following are two type of norms that are essential for
development of a particular group;
Explicit norm: These are usually codified in several formal documents (for example user
agreement and FAQs) that explains the expectation and purpose of the group. Thus, these are
different from the external norms such as, laws and rules which might be imposed from
outside. Typically, the documents explaining these norms may address several acceptable
topics for explaining the normative areas of interest of the group (Bicchieri & Mercier, 2014).
Implicit norm: On flip, the implicit norm are not codified formally, rather emerge socially by
the everyday interaction of the group members. These norms may or may not be formalized,
and also not explicitly voiced; rather these type of norms are widely accepted as well as
understood by the members of a particular group and informally used for defining the

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acceptable behaviour within a particular group. Depending on the nature and size of group,
these norms can be emerge in several different ways.
Answer to question 6
There are several factors such as efficient coordination, communication and many
others that can contribute major towards effective group formation and performing group
activities in an organized manner. Efficient or productive team work can become major
reason for which the organization can collect higher success and profit in the market (Fisher,
Cornwallis & West, 2013). However, following is a list of activities that might create
challenges for individuals in participating in a particular group;
1. Poor communication
2. Unclear job goals
3. Lack of leadership and management skills
4. Higher group conflicts
Suggestions for avoiding the above discussed challenges:
 Communication plays a vital role in motivating and engaging the team members to
perform productively. Lack of clear and professional communication can become key
driver towards not achieving the business goals. Therefore, the leaders need to adopt
efficient communication strategies to maintain effective flow of information within
the team.
 Making the business objective and job expatiations clear to the group members in the
initial stage can minimize the employee dissatisfaction and turnover rate.
 The group leader or manager need to have efficient team management skills and
motivate the team member to perform productively (Pan & Houser, 2013).