A concept I found interesting from Chapter 2 was the idea that giving and receiving feedback is an important factor in small group communication. The text states that both positive and negative feedback are vital among group members as positive feedback encourages creativity and diversity while negative feedback reduces deviation and improves function.
This is important to know as often times, group members are hesitant to speak their minds in fear of offending someone or having their ideas rejected. However, providing honest feedback tends to help the group more than it hurts it. This is advice that I will keep in mind during my future group experiences as in the past I have typically sat back and allowed others to make the decisions, even if I disagreed. Now, I will be sure to voice my input as it will ultimately benefit the group and make it stronger in the long run.
Hello Daisy, I really enjoyed reading your post on a concept you found interesting. I strongly agree that receiving and giving feedback are extremely important in any group, no matter how small or how big. When you’re in a group, it is important to compliment and encourage each other so that the relationships grow stronger, and the work becomes more efficient. I like how you used examples from the text and let us know that both positive and negative feedback are vital among group members. Usually, we always want to hear and see positive feedback because those are the only feedback that sounds appropriate or good. However, you mentioned that negative feedback is helpful as well which I agree on with as well. Negative feedback may sound bad firsthand, but if it is done in a respectful and honest way, it can ultimately help the individual or group. It indeed has the power to improve function and reduce deviation. You also used great examples of how group members are hesitant to speak up without offending anyone. This really caught my attention as I have also been in many situations like that before. It really is hard to say something you truly feel without feeling bad for saying it, which is why it’s important to learn ways around that to speak your mind, yet, provide the feedback as honestly as possible.
ReplyDeleteI think feedback is very important as well. Imagine turning in a rough draft of a very important paper and not having any red marks on your paper from the teacher. She gives you no praise for what was said well and no red marks where we need correction. She also gives you no tips on how to make the paper better. We wouldn't know what was good on that paper. It would be the same if she just gave us all praise and no corrections. We wouldn't know what was wrong or how to improve. Or vise-versa, if she gave us all red marks and no praise. We would feel as a writer that our material isn't good at all. What i am basically trying to say is that without any positive or negative feed back, we wouldn't know how to strengthen our weakness or know what was positive about what we wrote. Some people take negative feedback as a personal insult and take it to offense which is why i think most people fear that. But it is an essential part of bettering ourselves, especially in a group.
ReplyDeleteDaisy, you did a good job on your post. I liked your post about feedback because did mine on feedbackas well. I feel that it is an important factor in communication. I also liked how brought up the book because it talked about positive and negative feedback. I feel it is helpful for everyone to apply this information to their life experiences. I agree with you when you said that group members might be hesitant to give feedback being positive or negative because people might take it as criticism. I think it’s great that you to take feedback and apply to your future groups experiences which will help you benefit your group. I look forward to you future posts.
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