Sunday, September 16, 2012
Strength in Diversity
In my first blog for this week, I explained valuing diversity could be difficult because everyone is raised differently. To be open-minded, one must be willing to accept diversity within the group. Once diversity has been valued, the group has the opportunity to become accepting and very strong in bringing in new ideas. Each member of a group suggests more ideas when they feel everyone else in the group practices equifinality. Equifinality allows different solutions to be tested to solve a problem. Different ideas are what help a group strive for the best solution. In a diverse group, each person in the group suggests numerous ideas because they are aware that the group values the diversity. This results in several routes to finding a solution to the problem. The group can then lie out the problem and test viable solutions. Testing out more solutions permits the group to find the best option. Using the strength of diversity allows the group to gain a connection with one another and choose the most advantageous solution.
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Hello! Great post about observers and consultants. I really like your detailed explanations and your example you've provided to support your claim. This discussion and the second one really helped me to get a better understanding of an observer's role. This will help me with the observer project we have. Observers provide a third or an outside perspective for the small group that the members may not have thought about. The outside observer is important because he or she's perspective is objective and unbiased. In reality, an outside observer is not always available so groups sometimes use group members as observers. This can be helpful in that it gives the members a chance to take themselves out of the equation. Though they can't be completely objective and unbiased toward observing, it provides the opportunity to further the observer as a group member and the group as a whole.
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