1. Imagine that you have just become the coach of a basketball team or that you are leading a group of clients in a cardiac rehabilitation program. You believe that situations or communication with the team or clients would go better if the team/group developed an identity.
NOTE: Identify yourself as a coach of a basketball team or leader of cardiac rehabilitation program within your initial discussion.
2. In your initial post, describe specific ways you would help a group form a sense of group identity.
Include the following concepts within your discussion regarding Developing Group Identity:
a. Ways to enhance social support
b. Ways to increase proximity
c. Ways to increase group distinctiveness
d. Ways to create a perception of fairness
e. Ways to increase similarity
Second:
Using a real-life example from sport and/or business, list three key team building characteristics that you feel led to an achievement culture.
Partial completion of discussion board work (first post without both replies, or one or two replies without the first post) or posts not at or above the length requirements, or any posts containing copied or quoted material may earn zero points, no exceptions. Replies must show that you are respectfully responding to what the classmate said.