Importance of Group Communication in Management: Insights and Learnings

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Topic 4 Group Communication
Describe the events and the experience
The group communication is one of the most essential and integral part of the day to day
business affairs. Without proper communication it is really very tough to implement any
particular business idea. One has to make sure that all the members in the group are putting
forward a joint collaborative effort in order to make sure that they are being able to achieve the
target as well.
I think that the group activity that we have undertaken really helped us a lot in order to
understand the importance of maintaining a proper connection between and transparent
communication between each other. One of the important aspects that are used by the managers
and the leaders to carry on the communication is the Golden rule. I have learnt from this
assignment that while conducting some group meetings there are issues among the members. As
is seen from the case the four members were not happy with the ways in which all of them used
to carry on the meetings (Bhaskaran et al., 2015). It is for this reason that Ari, Ron, Sam and
other members did not really like to cope up with the each other.
As per the theory given by Sinek, the leaders must be using the question why in order to
carry on the focus of their work in a proper way. In other words, I think that all the 4 partners
that were involved in the group project must have questioned themselves as to why the
communication is not taking properly within their group. I think that as it is evident from the
given case that the one of the member was about to get shifted to a new geographical location,
the other members must have kept it in mind that there will be some problems in the

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communication of the message or the decisions being taken in the group. Thus, I think that the
concept of virtual team might have been developed in order to make sure that even after shifting
to another place the team members can stay in contact. I think that the modern scientific
technology must have been used in order to carry on the group meetings even if there were some
geographical barriers.
Interpret and evaluate the events from your perspective
I think that the group managers must think about some kinds of alternatives in order to
make sure that the situation is being brought under their control. However, it is true that there
must be a proper understanding among all the members of the group of they want to succeed in
the long run. The alternatives measures are there that might help the group to work on their level
of communication clarity.
In other words, they have to make sure that they are being able to consider all the options
like appointing a devil’s advocate, Increase group size, heterogeneity, Remove physical
isolation, Facilitate organisational graffiti and many others. I feel that as far as the assignment is
concerned the best possible alternative methods that might have been taken by the company are
Remove physical isolation. This is mainly because of the fact that the traditional concept of the
us and them must be abolished. This will help the team to progress forward by understanding
that in order to develop a proper and transparent communication system among all the members
they have to become much more diverse. In other words, they have to understand that that in
order to move forward for accomplishing the goals they have to get over the age old traditional
methods (Bhaskaran et al., 2015). However this is also true that it is tough for the team to adapt
to any new and modern scientific methods of communication all of a sudden. Increasing the size