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1. Please answer the following questions with 5 or 6 sentences. Please use analytical and critical thinking skills are applied to the main ideas for the discussion questions.

Suggest at least one (1) scenario in which understanding the Five Stages of Group Development could help you to work more effectively in groups in the future. Provide a rationale for your response. Then, reflect on an experience that you had being a member of a team. Classify the good, bad, and tolerable characteristics of being a team member.

2. Please read and answer the following question at the end in BOLD Print with 5 or 6 sentences.

No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thy friend's Or of thine own were: Any man's death diminishes me, Because I am involved in mankind, And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.

Poet's Notes about The Poem

These famous words by John Donne were not originally written as a poem - the passage is taken from the 1624 Meditation 17, from Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and is prose. The words of the original passage are as follows: John Donne Meditation 17 Devotions upon Emergent Occasions http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/no-man-is-an-island/

The first part concerns the norming, storming, performing, groupthink, and social loafing that you may have read about before.  For the second half of the prompt think about this: is a good group better than a mediocre team?