Talk:Managing Groups and Teams/Similarities

A great take on variety in teams, focusing on similarities instead of differences. Great idea. Explaining the advantages or disadvantages of having homogeneity and variety across the big five is good. In terms of areas to improve, the chapter includes images that have unclear licensing guidelines. Those need to be cleaned up to comply with Wikimedia standards. The chapter could also use uniform numbering systems across the sections.

Overall, this chapter is informative and interesting. However, I did feel that several parts were redundant and repeated concepts too many times. In addition, I noticed several seemingly irrelevant pieces of information were added. The chapter is great as a whole, but could use concision.

I really liked the idea of maximizing group effectiveness by forming a group based on the individual's personality according to the big five test. However, I agree with the person who commented before me; some information seemed irrelevant for example in the extroversion section there was a whole paragraph on dog/cat people, who cares? How does that have anything to do with groupwork? Also the diagrams of the united states in each section seemed unnecessary. Even though it was interesting to compare my state amongst the others it is irrelevant in terms of group work. The main thing I felt this chapter was lacking was a solid conclusion piece. A section that brings it all together and gives the reader some take home information. Something along the lines of "when forming a team it is important that these sets of personalities are apparent in each of the individuals and these other sets are not, this of course will require each individual to take the big 5 test." Overall I feel the chapter would read a lot more smoothly if it was more conscise and included a concluding element.

I liked the picture that corresponded with Devil's Advocate, I also thought the maps that showed all the different categories were interesting, maybe not the best visual that could have been added, but interesting. There were many examples and interesting facts that were pleasant to my eyes. Overall I thought it conveyed the message that it was trying to get across.