DIY² Lab – Group dynamics online
07 July 2022
Program
Check-in activity: To get to know each other and to get into the subject, participants were invited to answer the following
question by writing in the chat: Group dynamics is for me…
The answers reflected quite different aspects of the topic: • important/ vital/ essential, when working with groups • essential for learning • a basis for learning • an important prerequisite for feeling comfortable • great to see what is going on in groups... • online not easy to handle, maybe • communication, learning • fragile • getting along as a team • sometimes scaring...
Activity: Speed-Dating in Break-Out-Sessions
In 3 rounds of 3 minutes, participants discussed in alternating groups of two on the following questions:
Round 1: Choose 3 emojis that represent your person and present them to the other person. Round 2: What means group dynamics for me? (to deepen the aspects identified in the check-in session) Round 3: Digital or live - What speaks for one or the other?
The most important learnings of the group discussions were presented to the others in the chat:
• Online can complement presence, but not replace it. • Online and presence actually only work together :-) • Online and live meetings both have good pros :) • Digitally you can provide another person with more and varied channels to build a relationship. • We have more options online. • New possibilities and tools have been discovered. • Influencing group dynamics is more difficult online. • It is more difficult to perceive the mood of the participants digitally – that is why it is important to counteract this at an early stage so that not everyone has switched off their cameras at some point.
Christoph Schneider-Laris pointed out, that the challenge is to find out what can be better designed online and when live settings are worthwhile. You have to get a feeling for that. How can they be combined?
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