Starting up a community group - getting people to work together page 2

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Starting Up A Community Group -
Getting People To Work Well Together

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If we recognise how individuals work together within a group situation we can play to peoples strengths, overcome weaknesses and deal with conflict within the group as it arises.

But none of this applies to us - WE NEVER ARGUE!!

Quite possibly true! BUT does everyone in the group really agree with one another all the time or is it in reality a case of there being one person or a small section of the group who dominate by either bullying or by using emotional blackmail? The type of people who sulk if they don't get their own way or try to make other people who don't agree with them look stupid?

...Does this ring any bells?

Section 1:

So How Do Groups Function?

Any group of people who come together for the first time to work together as a group will undergo roughly the same experiences as they form their 'group' and then work toward their end goal. This process has been identified as having five distinct stages known as:


		Forming

		Storming

		Norming

		Performing

		Adjourning

In the next section we will look at what this process means in the real world and how you can use it to the groups advantage!

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