1. As you probably have experienced, leaders often must rely on effective messaging if they are to bring diverse groups together. Let me give you an example. People find it difficult to agree on much of anything specific, but almost everyone can agree on broad things like the values of freedom, prosperity, etc. People agree to these ideas without having any real idea of what these ideas mean in terms of policy. Through the use of such equivocal symbols, people come together and make progress toward goals, even if they don't all have the same image of those goals. How do you think this illustration might work for a leader in a team environment? Please support your response.

2. What are the basic characteristics of a small group? How is a small group different from a group of friends gathering after a ball game or several members of an office getting together for lunch?

3. Provide an example of the (a) Transactional, (b) Symbolic and Shared meaning aspect of small group connections.

4. How do these examples help you understand the communication process in small groups?

Groups can take one peculiar characteristic. Describe how strange attraction, phase space, bifurcation points , and irreversibility affect the characteristics of a group. Find a small group experience for one of these characteristics. Can you Identify a small group experience that includes all 4 of these characteristics? explain