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Navigating the Working Stage: Strategies for Group Success

Explore the dynamics of the working stage in group settings, focusing on achieving goals, peer relationships, task processes, and overcoming common problems. Learn effective strategies to assist groups in this stage and achieve successful outcomes.

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Navigating the Working Stage: Strategies for Group Success

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  1. Chapter 6 The Working Stage in a Group: Performing Prepared by: Nathaniel N. Ivers, Wake Forest University

  2. Roadmap • The Working Stage of a Group • Peer relationships – Johari Window • Tasks during the working stage • Problems that may arise in the working stage of a group • Strategies for assisting groups in the working stage • Achieving Outcomes in the Working Stage

  3. Working Stage of a Group • Focuses on the achievement of individual and group goals • Emphasizes the movement of the group itself into a more unified and productive system • Described as the group’s “performing stage” (Tuckman & Jensen, 1977) and “action stage” (George & Dustin, 1988)

  4. Working Stage of a Group • Group leaders and members feel more freedom and comfort to try out new behaviors and strategies. • “Therapeutic forces,” such as openness to self, others, and new ideas, “are well-established” (Ohlsen et al., 1988, p. 88).

  5. Peer Relationships in the Working Stage • Members tend to express genuine concern for one another on a deep, personal level • Participants establish how physically and psychologically close they wish to be to others and behave accordingly. • Members are more willing to self-disclose.

  6. Johari Awareness Model • Sometimes called the Johari Window • Represents what happens in the arena of self-disclosure when a group is in the working stage (Luft, 1984)

  7. Johari Window

  8. Task Process during the Working Stage • Rounds • Role playing • Homework • Incorporation

  9. Problems in the Working Stage • Racial and Gender Issues • May be subtle or blatant • Cultural Encapsulation • Group Collusion • Cooperating with others unconsciously or consciously to “reinforce prevailing attitudes, values, behaviors, or norms” (Butler, 1987, p. 1) • The purpose of such behavior is self protection • Groupthink

  10. Assisting Groups in the Working Stage • Modeling by the Leader • Exercises • Group Observing Group • Brainstorming • Nominal-Group Technique • Written Projections • Group Processing • Teaching of Skills

  11. Outcomes of the Working Stage • Usually tangible, as goals have been worked on and achieved • Learning and sharing of ideas and information among members • Catharsis – release of pent-up feelings • Cognitive restructuring • Confrontation • Feedback • Corrective Emotional Experience • Humor

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