You are leading a work group formed to plan for an annual staff retreat. As the first few group meetings progressed, you noticed that the initial high level of group participation and energy has been gradually diminishing. In this current session, you are experiencing the group members as being much quieter than usual. Some members appear to be distracted by other tasks. At this point of time, you have just asked the group members to break into smaller sub-groups to do some brainstorming. However, the members are slow in responding to your request, and a few have not started moving at all. Analyse each of the following group scenarios and describe how you, as the group leader,

would go about handling the situation. Explain your thinking behind why you would go

about handling it the way you do. Illustrate your discussion with verbatim of what you

might say to the individual or group.