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Roles Within Groups
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Role | Behaviors |
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Coordinator | Clarifies ideas and suggestions that have been made within a group, brings relationships together to pursue common goals. |
Evaluator | Examines group plans and performance, measuring against group standards and goals. |
Elaborator | Explains and expands upon group ideas and plans. |
Energizer | Encourages and motivates group to perform at its maximum potential. |
Initiator | Outlines the task at hand for the group and proposes methods for solution. |
Orienter | Maintains direction within the group. |
Compromiser | Relieves conflict within the group by assisting members to reach a compromise agreeable to all. |
Encourager | Offers recognition and acceptance of others' ideas and contributions. |
Follower | Listens attentively to group interaction; is passive participant. |
Gatekeeper | Encourages acceptance of, and participation by, all members of the group. |
Harmonizer | Minimizes tension within the group by intervening when disagreements produce conflict. |
Aggressor | Expresses negativism and hostility towards other members; may use sarcasm in effort to degrade the status of others. |
Blocker | Resists group efforts; demonstrates rigid and sometimes irrational behaviors that impede group progress. |
Dominator | Manipulates others to gain control; behaves in authoritarian manner. |
Help-seeker | Uses the group to gain sympathy from others; seeks to increase self-confidence from group feedback; lacks concern for others or for the group as a whole. |
Monopolizer | Maintains control of the group by dominating the conversation. |
Mute or silent member | Does not participate verbally; remains silent for a variety of reasons- may feel uncomfortable with self-disclosure or may be seeking attention through silence. |
Recognition seeker | Talks about personal accomplishments in an effort to gain attention for self. |
Seducer | Shares intimate details about self with group; is the least reluctant of the group to do so; may frighten others in the group and inhibit group progress with excessive premature self-disclosure. |