29). The procedural technician, recorder, evaluator-critic, orienter, coordinator, and elaborator roles all help identify different components for the solution (Text, p.83). The evaluator-critic plays an important role in evaluating the submitted solutions (Text, p.83). Discussion-management competencies concern group communication dynamics and include: maintaining the task focus and managing interactions between group members (Text, p.29). The group-building and maintenance roles are important to the discussion-management competencies. The group building and maintenance roles include: encourager, harmonizer, compromiser, gatekeeper and expediter, standard setter, group observer, and follower (Text, p.83-84). The encourager offers praise, understanding, and acceptance of other group members (Text, p.83). The harmonizer manages interactions between group members by mediating disagreements among group members, while the compromiser plays a similar role by seeking to...

Finally, the gatekeeper tries to ensure that all group members have an opportunity to participate in the group (Text, p.84).
Finally, relational competencies are concerned with the group's climate and include: managing conflict and maintaining a positive climate (Text, p.29). The individual group roles are all counterproductive to the relational competencies. The harmonizer and the compromiser both help manage conflict in the group (Text, p.84). Moreover, many of these roles can help preserve a positive climate in the group. For example, the energizer tries to encourage the group's dynamics (Text, p.83). Some of those roles may not be positive, however. For example, the opinion giver can be a very constructive role in a group, but it can also be a negative role.

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