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Developing Group Identity
As a basketball team coach, there are various things I would do in ensuring that there is a development of group identity. This is important in maintaining the functionality of the team, the performance and also it enhances a good relationship between the team members. One way of achieving this is enhancing social support. This is by encouraging team members to be there for each other, being ready to listen to the concern of others in the team and helping them solve their problems. Social support is all about supporting each other emotionally in order to ensure a better environment is created for all the team members.
In an attempt to promote group proximity, I would create various events where the team members could have fun together, share their feelings and ideas (Dunn& Andrews 2015). Such activities are important in allowing the team members to learn more about each other therefore enhancing closeness among them. Increasing distinctness is also another way of developing a group identity. This can be achieved by effective training of the team members when it comes to basketball. This would help the team to be outstanding as compared to other teams. Better performance would also be attained through effective and efficient training.
There is also a need for creating a perception of fairness. This can be achieved by providing equal resources to all members be it the attire and even opportunities to go to various gaming functioning. Creation of standards that must be considered in electing group leaders or representatives also needs to be consistent without practicing any form of favoring. Lastly, increasing similarity is also essential in enhancing group identity (Dunn& Andrews 2015). This can be attained by creating common goals for the team members so that there can be a creation of a certain common pace that needs to be used by all team members. Basically having all members working on the same thing at a time.
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Dunn, D. S., & Andrews, E. E. (2015). Person-first and identity-first language: Developing psychologists’ cultural competence using disability language. American Psychologist, 70(3), 255.
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