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Chapter 6The Working Stage in a Group: Performing Prepared by: Nathaniel N..  The Working Stage of a Group  Peer relationships – Johari Window  Tasks during the working stage  Probl

Chapter 6

The Working Stage in a

Group: Performing

Prepared by: Nathaniel N Ivers, Wake Forest University

 The Working Stage of a Group

 Peer relationships – Johari Window

 Tasks during the working stage

 Problems that may arise in the working stage of a group

 Strategies for assisting groups in the

working stage

 Achieving Outcomes in the Working Stage

Working Stage of a Group

 Focuses on the achievement of individual and group goals

 Emphasizes the movement of the group itself into a more unified and productive system

 Described as the group’s “performing

stage” (Tuckman & Jensen, 1977) and “action stage”

(George & Dustin, 1988)

Working Stage of a Group

 Group leaders and members feel more

freedom and comfort to try out new

behaviors and strategies

 “Therapeutic forces,” such as openness to self, others, and new ideas, “are

well-established” (Ohlsen et al., 1988, p 88).

Peer Relationships in the Working

Stage

 Members tend to express genuine concern for one another on a deep, personal level

 Participants establish how physically and psychologically close they wish to be to

others and behave accordingly

 Members are more willing to self-disclose

Johari Awareness Model

 Sometimes called the Johari Window

 Represents what happens in the arena of self-disclosure when a group is in the

working stage (Luft, 1984)

Johari Window

Quadrant 1: Open quadrant

Information known to self and

others

Quadrant III: Blind Quadrant

Information originally unknown to self but known to others when the group began

Quadrant II: Hidden

Quadrant

Undisclosed information

known only to oneself

Quadrant IV: Unknown Quadrant

Material hidden from self and others because of a lack of opportunity

Task Process during the Working Stage

 Rounds

 Role playing

 Homework

 Incorporation

Problems in the Working Stage

 Racial and Gender Issues

 Group Collusion

consciously to “reinforce prevailing attitudes, values, behaviors, or norms” (Butler, 1987, p 1)

Assisting Groups in the Working Stage

 Modeling by the Leader

 Exercises

 Group Observing Group

 Brainstorming

 Nominal-Group Technique

 Written Projections

 Group Processing

Outcomes of the Working Stage

and achieved

among members