Process Skills: Group Process Skills for Committees

Liz Logan

As small groups, committees are subject to the principles of group development. In effective committees, the members understand these principles and know what behaviors build team spirit and get things done. In this experiential workshop, we’ll cover: the four stages of group development, formal and informal roles, and how to fulfill them, task and relational functions, and how to balance them, participation levels, and how to equalize them, and the key elements of assigning responsibility, and how to generate accountability.

Liz Logan is a facilitator, trainer and a strategic planning consultant. She has been teaching communication and group process skills since 1994 in academic, corporate, and most recently, cohousing settings. Liz spent the last year working with an ad hoc Communication Committee at East Lake Commons Cohousing, and together they developed a series of Salons that have had a dramatic effect on the communication climate in that community. She holds a Masters Degree in Speech Communication.

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