Speech Terms

bombard

• helpful and unselfish

• nearly unanimous agreement

• independent and self-oriented

• lash out

Creative process for coming up with ideas

• consensus

• moderator

• Brainstorming

• Symposium

Set of standards for evaluation

• Competitive

• Discussion

• Criteria

• Cohesion

Difference of opinion that leads to creative alternatives

• Disruptive conflict

• Constructive conflict

• question of interpretation

• question of evaluation

Discussion format typical of cabinet meetings

• Symposium

• Forum

• Town hall meeting

• Round table

Nearly unanimous agreement

• Consensus

• panel

• forum

• Round table

Discussion format in which a few experts give short speeches

• Forum

• Panel

• Round table

• Symposium

Tendency to conform to group opinion

• groupthink

• consensus

• moderator

• Panel

A question about value judgments

• question of interpretation

• question of evaluation

• question of fact

• Brainstorming

Disagreement that prevents a group from making a decision

• Disruptive conflict

• Constructive conflict

• Town hall meeting

• Symposium