One concept I found to be interesting and a great reminder on why small group communication is needed and important is the concept on "Wholeness and Synergy." These two words are about how people working together and interacting creates an even better result in comparison to someone working alone or people in a group working alone in a group and not communicating. Having that synergy and wholeness in a group helps and leads to good problem solving skills and that ideology that "two heads are better than one."
I remember in my online class last summer on small group communication, in a post on having to work in small groups on two essays assigned, some students explained how they prefer working alone than in groups on projects or papers because they do not have to rely on others and deal with the pressure of inconsistent group members. That's where I felt synergy and wholeness came into place because those people did not realize although especially having to work with people online and communicate virtually, having that synergy by working together, and choosing who does what and putting that together and creating one paper, that involved using consistency, persistency, usage of problem solving skills if there was an issue needed to be resolved amongst the group in which that created synergy and wholeness. That is why I feel without synergy and wholeness, a small group will not be as successful and be able to work effectively together to accomplish the task at hand.
I liked your post about wholeness and synergy. I agree with you that within a small group having wholeness and synergy helps lead to good problem solving. At times it is just easier to think that if I do it myself it will get done quick and done better. Although we forget that by being in a group we learn more about ourselves and about someone else. While I love online classes I feel like the one on one interaction is better than the communication process online. I hope that maybe I will learn more about that from this class. Cheers
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