First presentation Reflection blog by Nathanael Israel

 

 

Chapter 3 “intercultural communication” presented by group 1:

Chapter 3 Intercultural Communication was presented by group one. They did an amazing, with their presentation. what I like about group one presentation Is the way they set up their PowerPoint, the colors of the pictures, and how they design it. This chapter focus on the relationship between communication and culture. Chapter 3 explains how culture relates and differs when it comes to circumstances that include communication. The first thing group one did was define culture and the role of communication in its cultural system of shared values, beliefs, attitudes. And norms that guide what is considered appropriate among a group of people that have developed a similar life experience. Intercultural communication is the verbal and nonverbal interaction between people from different cultural backgrounds. Intercultural communication involves sharing of information across different cultures. Social groups include individuals from different social ethics, religions, and educational backgrounds. Intercultural communication training is important to break down cultural barriers. To share information and ideas among cultures. It is necessary to know one own culture. A culture of a surrounding group, the domain group culture, and co-cultures of gender, religion, or age group, etc. Group one talks about Race VS Ethnicity, how they both are different. Race is described as a physical trait. And ethnicity is a term that described shared culture, the practice, values, and beliefs of a group. This might include shared language, religion, and tradition. Like race, ethnicity, individuals may identify or self-identify with ethnicity complex. In group one presentation, they also talk about sexual orientation how many people identify themselves differently. Some people may identify as pansexual, bisexual, heterosexual, asexual, homosexual.

 

Chapter 9 “communicating in groups” pretended by group 2:

Communicating in Groups this chapter was presented by group 2 which each group member did a fantastic job with their presentation. This chapter discusses the importance of keeping in mind the different types of groups and understanding the difference between them, which is key to overcome barriers. Group 2 starts off their presentation by talking about the nature types of groups. They start the presentation by defining Family, which is many individuals that share history. The natural type of group is a social group, support group, Service group, workgroup, virtual group, and interest group. A social group is a group of two or more people sharing similar interests social group allow everyone in the group to state their thoughts and opinion. A support group is people that come together to encourage. An interest group shares a common interest. There are 5 Staged of group development, including Forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. In groups, conflict can occur it is very hard for conflict to not occur in groups but, it is up to the group members to prevent conflict from happening in the first place. While working in groups, you must put your differences aside especially, cultural differences. Or any other kind of differences you may have with any group members. Working in groups, you must focus on the bigger picture, which is to meet the common goal and focus on doing the job the right way. Working in groups, it is always important to solve conflict if it occurs. Ways you can solve conflict is to talk to each other about the problem or seek help from the person in charge.

 

Chapter 10 “group leadership and problem-solving” presented by group 3:

Chapter 10 leadership and solving problem this chapter was presented by group 3 which I feel like we did a great job with our presentation. Each member of the group was great to work with especially, our group leaders Jorge and Waymond. This chapter focuses on effective leadership and problem-solving in groups. Leadership is a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals. This chapter discusses how sometimes when we think of leadership, we think of the person that is in charge. Many may even think we were born as leaders in today world we as an individual understand that leadership, as a set of communication, perform by any group members. Being a leader is helping yourself and others to do the right thing. A leader helps sets direction and built sets visions for everyone to stay on track and not lose control and focus to meet a goal. A group may have a formal leader, an Informal emergent leader. I have experienced leadership whenever doing a project, going out with my friends. In our group presentation, we all shown leadership because we all as a group came together and help each other whenever needed. We each had our section to complete, and we divided the chapter and make sure that everyone had something to do. In groups, there are task roles that help the group apply information that contributes directly to complete a goal such as givers, which provide content the role of givers, is usually well informed on the task. Seekers and analyzers. Which helps the groups to analyze the content and reasoning of the discussion. There are Maintenance roles which are a set of behaviors that help the group develop. They are supporters, Interpreters, Harmonizers, Mediators, Tension relievers. In groups there are also procedures roles, which record the group accomplishment, provide logistics and decisions. The procedural role is logistics coordinators, Expediters, Gatekeepers, and recorders. Overall, the chapter presentation was a great way to start the class because we learned about the different topics such as intercultural communication, leadership and solving problems, communication in groups that we did not know before. And the way each group member work together to make sure we had a great presentation. For some reason, I always loved working with groups because they encourage and motivate each other to do better.