This video clip shows an example on leadership and group communication where the leader of the group guided the discussion throughout and managed to pull the group members in to the right track after they went off track/out of topic. He also tried to make sure that everyone gave their opinions, and presented each idea to the President, even when he himself did not think the idea was useful. This shows that everyone was given a chance in voicing out their opinions and was taken into consideration regardless of the usefulness or relevance. Besides, after each member gave their opinions, the leader represented them as a team in delivering the ideas to the president. This video clip relates to the theories learnt in chapter 8, Decision Making Processes, where it involves the Descriptive Small-Group Decision Making – Phase models of Small-Group Decision Making where all 4 phases: orientation, conflict, emergence and reinforcement were seen. Orientation phase occurred when they all got to know each other, conflict was when they all suggested solutions to the problems, emergence was when they gave their decisions to the president, and reinforcement was seen when the president decided to have a joke with them and pretended to accept all their solutions.
The part in which communication in the group was open and everyone was allowed to present their decisions shows the importance of communication to the essay. The way in which the leader kept trying to bring everyone back on track whenever the conversation moved away from problem-solving, and his decision to inform the president of all the solutions provided, showed how everyone’s voice is important, and how one of the roles of the leader is to guide the group.
Reference:
Clinton, B 2011, Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division, video online, available at http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/71a3d4cccc/clinton-foundation-celebrity-brainstorm, viewed 1 November 2011.
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