Discussion #3: Group Roles in Small Group Communication

Group Roles
 In Chapter 2 of the Group Comm book it presented techniques for impoving communicating in small groups. Some efficient ways to achieve successful communication in group setting  it to first set goals. Once the goal is identified, the group will then create an agenda, then the group will work on how best everyone in the group can deliberate and participate effectively and then lastly the group will establish roles and create networks. One of the most important aspects in effective group communication is making roles for the people in the group. Some types of group roles that prove to be helpful in group communication is: Information giver, Information seeker, Elaborator, Initiator, and Administrator. These roles include jobs that either have to do with providing facts, giving supplemental information to those facts, clarifying points to make sense of difficult info, finding solutions, and lastly supervising productivity. All these roles do their own individual part to complete successful group communication.