Chapter Ten ♫ "Small group communication" - 25 March 2015

Communication is the power,
just have to depend on how you use it.

Hi guys,
Well..

after 10+ post,

we finally reach the ending of the basis of Human Communication
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so today's post will be the last.

It's been a good journey,

trying to find time to post weekly,

trying to make my blog as humorous and educational as possible (epic fail in my part ._____." )

Well..

I hope you enjoyed this last post :)

Today class taught about

"Small group communication"

Previously, in my blog post..
"Chapter One ♫ "Foundation Of Human Comm." - 14 Jan 2015"


the definition of Small Group Communication is
"communicate with a group of people between (5++)"


The Subtopic of Small Group Communication are:

♫Small groups & teams

♫Small group stages

♫Small group format

♫Power in the small group

♫Types of small group

♫Problem solving group 

♫Small groups & teams♫

Forming groups and click is a natural part of life

but small groups are formed out of a common interest:

✦Purpose

similar purpose and reason.

Eg : assignment, project etc

✦Interdependence

individual depending on one another for common objective or to complement each other

eg ; different talent and skills

✦Organization of rules

individual in small groups has  certain schemata/rule to adhere to.

eg; formal meeting will done formally, informal social gathering will have less formal feel.

✦Self-perception as a group

individual wanting to feel belonged to a larger group of common shared values, beliefs, likings and mentality

Small groups are also characterized as a TEAM. 

An effective TEAM normally contain these qualities:-

✦Specific purpose

task completion, goal completion, problem solving etc

✦Clearly defined roles

there must be a leader, there must be supporters and everybody must be a team player

✦Goal directed : commitment to achieve the common goal and objective

✦Content focused : must be able to generate content- not distracted by other things. 

For example, winning the game, creating the book

Teams can be both in face-to-face or in the virtual world via video/audio interaction (conference calls or video conference calls)

♫Small group stages♫ 

Created by Sir Anwari ᕙ(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) ᕗ

♫Small group formats♫

Small group format is how naturally,

a group would form into a position where everyone are able to commute each other with ease.

Examples of small group format:

1. The round table
2. The panel
3. The Symposium
4. The symposium-forum

The round table

>Arrange themselves in circular or semicircular

>Share the information- no pattern of who speak when

>Group interaction : informal

>Leader – try to keep members on track

>Eg ; group project, group assignment.

The panel

#Group members are experts

#Informal –  no pattern of who speaks when.

#There is an audience in front (Questions & answers session)

#The most popular small group formats.

#Eg ; talk shows

The Symposium

@Each member delivers a prepared presentation much like a public speech.

@speeches – different aspect of a single topic

@Symposium leader introduce the speakers, provides transitions from one speaker to another and summarize the topic.

@Seminars, public speaking, conferences.

The symposium-forum

+Two parts : 

+A symposium with prepared speeches

+Forum (questions and responses)

+The leader introduces the speaker and moderates the question and answer session.

+Eg; campaigns, manisfesto, forum.

♫Power in the small group♫

Normally, some individual present them self with a certain power that the other group normally naturally know.

There are many types of power within a small group,

here are some of the commons one:

Legitimate power : by rules – appointed group leader

Referent power : by agreement – when another person wishes to be like you or identified with you

Eg; because of your good characteristics ,attitude, etc )

Reward power : by positive reinforcement

E.g “I like your idea Jeff – now I will increase your salary”

Coercive power : by negative reinforcement, punishment.

Eg ; you make others in trouble, I will decrease your salary!

Expert power : by establishing yourself as the expert in the context. 

Eg; you are the only one who watched the movie for your assignment in your human communication group, therefore you have the right to establish authority. 

Information power : by establishing yourself as the person can communicate and inform the best.

Eg; public speaker

♫Types of small group♫

There are many types of small group,

If Joined together with the right people,

a small group are capable of doing anything.

The types of small groups that are commonly known are~~

• Idea-generation groups
• Personal-growth groups
• Information- sharing groups
• Problem-solving groups

Idea-generation groups

Most groups would meet for the first time to discuss over the potential issues and solutions

brainstorming simply to say.

in brainstorming, rules must be followed :

>Don’t criticize one another

>Strive for quantity

>Combine and extend ideas

>Develop the wildest ideas possible

Personal-growth groups

Sometimes referred to as support group

Aim to help members cope with particular difficulties such as drug addict, not being assertive enough, having an alcoholic parent etc.

The Encounter Group: “sensitivity group”

  - this group try to facilitate members

  - more on psychotherapy 

The assertiveness training group: 

-aims to increase the willingness of its members to stand up for their right 

and to act more  assertively in a wide variety of situations.

The Consciousness – raising group:

-aim to help people cope with the problems society confronts them with.

-eg ; women’s rights groups, anti abuse groups etc

Information Sharing Group

People form ideas & share information with one another

Categorize by:

Educational group

contributing to the academic circle

Example: educational conference, talks etc.

Focus group

affirming the existence of the information, 

or the probability of increasing the confirmation of certain issues.

Example: most researcher tend to do a focus group, to find out what or how the public would respond to it. 

For example, new change the flavor or the bottle of the product.

♫Problem-solving group♫

In this category, group come together to face or solve a certain issue or problem.

The stages of solving issues:

01 Define and analyze the problem

02 Establish criteria for evaluating solutions

03 Identify possible solutions

04 Evaluate solutions

05 Select solutions

06 Test solutions – if failed, try again. If okay, then proceed.

'Six Thinking Hats' is an important and powerful technique. It is used to look at decisions from a number of important perspectives and solving problem at ahnds

The meaning behind the hats:-

Blue Hat:

Stands for process control. 

T discuss how the meeting will be conducted and to develop the goals and objectives

White Hat:

You focus on the data available. 

Look at the information you have, 

and see what you can learn from it. 

This is where you analyze past trends, and try to extrapolate from historical data.

Red Hat:

Looking at problems using intuition, gut reaction, and emotion. 

Also try to think how other people will react emotionally. Try to understand the responses of people who do not fully know your reasoning.

Green Hat:

The Green Hat stands for creativity. 

This is where you can develop creative solutions to a problem. 

It is a freewheeling way of thinking.

Yellow Hat:

The yellow hat helps you to think positively. 

It is the optimistic viewpoint that helps you to see all the benefits of the decision and the value in it. 

Yellow Hat thinking helps you to keep going when everything looks gloomy and difficult.

Black Hat:

Looking at all the bad points of the decision. Look at it cautiously and defensively. 

This is important because it highlights the weak points in a plan. 

It allows you to eliminate them, alter them, or prepare contingency plans to counter them.

And that's the end of Chapter 10,

and probably the last post i'll post again.

Thank for being patience with my random dry humour and ranting ᕙ༼◕ ᴥ ◕༽ᕗ

i'll probably post ur the last chapter since i use this blog as my revision medium ◕ ᴥ ◕

well...

I hope aliens out there understand what i blog about human communication 

Thanks for reading.

THE END

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Chapter Nine ♫ "Friends, Lovers & Families" - 24 March 2015

My Childhood :)
and the reason why i'm mentally craze :D

Wuss Up Aliensssssssssssssssssssss~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
honestly, over 7 posts,
i'm still bad at introduction :|
hmm
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today chapter are about Friends, Lovers & Families
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DA MAJOR TOPIC FOR DA CHAPTER R :

> Friendship (Ɔ˘⌣˘)(˘⌣˘)˘⌣˘ C)
> Romantic relationship ( ‘́3’̀)/(˘̩̩ε˘̩ƪ)
> Families (‘౪’(`౪´(^౪^(´･౪･`)´౪`)°౪°)-౪-)

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━━ FRIENDSHIP ━━

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Friendship Is an interpersonal relationship.

To maintain a good friendship,

all individual must be mutually productive

Normally characterized by mutual positive regard:

#Trust

#Emotional support

#Sharing interest

The Friendship Types:-

The Friendship of Reciprocity

# Loyalty, self-sacrifice, mutual affection, generosity.

# Share equally in giving receiving the benefits and rewards of the relationship.

# Eg : close friend

The Friendship of Receptivity

# One person is the primary giver, and one the primary receiver.

# Eg : teacher & students, doctor & patient

The Friendship of Association

# friendly relationship

# There is no great loyalty, no great trust, no great giving & receiving.

# Eg : classmates, neighbours, cowokers

The Purposes of Friendship 

Why do we seek out friendship and close relationships?

What's the point of having bond and friendship?
We are an interactive creature which need friends for various purposes such as:

✽Utility purposes

help you to achieve your specific goals and need.

eg : those who good in Math may teach you that subject.

✽Affirmation

help you to recognize your attributes

eg : those who would help you see more clearly your leadership abilities.

✽Ego support

someone who behave in supportive and encouraging.

eg : those who would help you view yourself as worthy.

✽Stimulation : introduces you to new ideas, help you to expand your world-view

✽Security  : someone who does nothing to hurt you or to emphasize or call attention to your weaknesses.

Stages of Friendship

Step01 - Initial contact & acquaintanceship

✽The first stage of friendship

✽Impressions are formed.

✽Important to stay open and welcoming of the presence of your new acquaintance.

Step02 - Casual friendship

✽The second stage of friendship.

✽Dyadic (of a relation) consciousness takes place

✽Doing things together

Step03 - Close and intimate friendship

✽The third stage of friendship

✽Most intimate forms of togetherness.

Influential of Friendship 

Friendship can be affected by other influence such as:

✪Culture (AGAIN?! (╯°Д°）╯︵/(.□ . ) )

✪Gender differences

✪technology

๏Cultural๏

Different cultures would bring about a different meaning to friendships and relationships.

Collective society : the more friends, the better

Individualist society: the more friends I have, the lesser chance of getting a promotion in workplace.

๏Gender๏

Male and female view friendships and relationships differently

Men are more keen to develop more acquaintances, but not true friends

Women are more able to keep and maintain close friends around them. 

But tends to get jealous more.

Self-disclosure : men would also self-disclose their secrets lesser than a women.  because of ego

๏Technology๏

The meaning of friendship has been diluted by the improvement and usage of technology in our lives.

In the past, it used to be meaningful to have 10 friends which you keep in touch with, 

but these days you can have 5000 friends in facebook 

and you don’t even keep in contact with 5 of them on a regular basis.

Sad for the newer generation :C

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━ ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP ━

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The Types of love ❤

Eros : erotic, sensual, desire, lust

Ludus : excitement, fun, entertainment

Storge : peaceful and slow

Pragma : practical and traditional

Mania : extremist of opposites

Agape : unconditional love

❥Eros ❣

❤ Category represents love that comes out physical attraction, beauty and appearance. 

❤ Often sex and lust becomes the result of this category

❥Ludus ❣

❤ Form of love represents the thrill of excitement and pleasure seeking

❤ Normally only seeking temporary measures and ways to fulfill their need to have fun.

❤ Usually ludic lovers are those who are individualists or self-centered and would only maintain the relationship with their partner until they become bored. 

❥Storge ❣

❤ This form of love represents the act of seeking for love but with the absence of passion and emotion in the process. 

❥Pragma ❣

❤ Lover are more concerned of the ability of the other partner and the benefits that they could gain from the relationship

❥Mania ❣

❤ Lover is a bit of a psycho- they love the thrill of having love and at the same is depressed or worried of having love.

❥Agape ❣

❤ This love is truly unconditional love

❤ Loving another with no favor expected in return. 

❤ Can be considered as the highest and most selfless form of love.

❣ Influential of Romantic Relationship ❣

❥ Cultural Influence

Love is interpreted and practiced differently from various culture around the globe. 

For instance

in America, lovers are more intimate and more active in showing their love(buying flowers etc) 

in Asian countries, love is considered a taboo topic until the individuals have reached a certain age and overall, love take a more passive position in Asian countries.

❥ Gender Influence

Both men and women love differently. 

Men for example, is more and eros and ludic lover

Women are more of the pragma lover.

❥  Technology Influence

Likewise with friendships, 

the meaning of love is also diluted by the growth of technology. 

Non verbal cues and verbal cues for instance, 

Becomes more diluted by the cold and digital texts and messages done 

through emails, text messages, whatsapp, facebook, twitter etc.

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━━ FAMILIES ━━

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Each family has their own uniqueness and characteristics, 

but they do normally follow a certain set of rules and criteria, such as :

●Defined roles (E.g Father as the head)

○Recognition of responsibilities (E.g Mother do house chores)

●Shared history & future (Childhood, difficulty of starting a family)

○Shared living space (Knowing the boundaries without needing to ask..at times)

The Types of family :

○Traditional couples

The conventional form of a family – shared values, beliefs, tolerance for one another.

○Independent couples

Individuals in this family setting stresses individuality as the main theme in the family – unfortunately this is how the modern family is today.

○Separate couples

This family setting is not really a family but individuals in this family stay together for a common benefit (paying the rent, sharing living space, etc)

Communication between Families

Each family communicates with one another differently, 

but would also adhere to the same principles of communication :

●Equality: Individual in families would often seek an equal terms of  respect, love and understanding with one another

●Balanced split : families with a balanced split have a balanced amount of responsibilities

eg; fathers would get money from work, 

mother would prepare and take care of the family and house as in return (balanced)

●Unbalanced split : a mother having to work for money and taking care of the home but the father just stay at home unemployed and not even doing the housework.

●Monopoly : one person is the authority – a very traditional and conventional family setting

Influential of Families

♪Culture

Highly individualist cultures would not have a conductive setting for a healthy family. 

But would often be prepared to accept changes and self-disclosure

♪Technology

Technology brings the family closer or further apart?

Research showed that while the participants in the family are more active in conversation, 

with one another(via text message, email, facebook, etc) 

the quality and value of those conversations are diluted and almost meaningless and lack sincerity.

END OF CHAPTER 9~~~!!!!!
2 MORE CHAPTER TOGO Q7Q

SEE YOU GUYS LTR~~
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BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE :3
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Afterwords-----------------
ok, i honestly know how shitty my blog post recently
well, from the previous post (Chapter Seven&Eight ♫ "Interpersonal Communication" - 24 Feb 2015)
Subtopic Excuses.
here's my excuses :|

it been pretty busy with university life
since UCSI favourite trend is
every semester, there will be that one certain of time where suddenly,
Exam, Midterms, Quizzes and assignments are somehow come together (OAO!!)
and well, being in-charge of quite some stuff
will kill anyone :|
*drama queen activate*
but i believe that...

so... keep fighting (ง ಥДಥ)ง
cause i know sir also has a hard time at marking and check our blogs xD

Real boy cry, Real Man cry while facing whatever hit him