Chapter 12: Group Discussion

Leadership that helps a group meet its goals and develop positive communication

• group identity

• group cohesiveness

• formal leadership

• group leadership

Leadership that emerges from a group's interactions

• authoritarian leadership

• laissez-faire leadership

• democratic leadership

• informal leadership

Leadership marked by a leader who allows the group to figure out its own processes

• autocratic leadership

• informal leadership

• laissez-faire leadership

• authoritarian leadership

General agreement

• congenial

• compromise

• congregate

• consensus

A question asking whether something is good or bad, needed or not needed, better or worse

• question of theory

• question of value

• question of fact

• question of policy

Discussion in which all participants have equal status

• symposium

• group leadership

• informal leadership

• roundtable

Discussion in which people in the community voice opinions and hear responses from public speakers.

• symposium

• democratic leadership

• panel discussion

• town hall meeting

Leadership that involves a single leader who dominates and dictates processes to group members.

• laissez-faire leadership

• authoritarian leadership

• democratic leadership

Leadership that is designated as a norm of the group.

• group leadership

• formal leadership

• democratic leadership

• informal leadership

A group in which speakers address a topic.

• symposium

• town hall meeting

• roundtable

• panel discussion