Leadership help

Identify two groups you belong to or have belonged to; the groups can be personal or work-related.

Based on your observations of how the groups function and the interactions among the groups' members, answers to the following questions:

· What was the composition of each group?

· What types of groups were they?

· Were the values and mission of the group apparent? How?

· Were the operational objectives or mission of the group supported by the individuals? How?

· What were the attitudes of individual members to being a part of a group? Were they committed and compliant? Were they resistant?

· Was there a leader and was the leader effective? What made the leader effective or ineffective?

· Do you feel the leader was respectful of group's members? Why or why not?

· How would you rate the communication effectiveness of the group? Explain.

· What motivated you to join the group and stay with or leave it? Explain.

· What role did you play in the group?

· Was the group cohesive? What made it cohesive or noncohesive?

· Were there any barriers to collaboration? If so, what were they?

· Would you consider these groups to be successful? If so, what characteristics of a successful group did they possess? If not, which characteristics did they lack?