This interaction can occur within the present group or in the future. The group's attention may naturally gravitate toward you as the leader. Recognizing Commonalities and Promoting Consensus Promoting involvement often involves helping group members find similarities in ideas, interests, values, and plans.
Conflicts often arise when the group focuses on differences rather than common ground.
Identifying similarities can be used to support common goals. After hearing from both of you, let's agree on some minimum standards that would be mutually agreeable. As the identity of the group continues to form and strengthen, a key leadership skill is to encourage supportive interactions and nurture the ongoing interdependence of the members so that they feel like they can accomplish more as a group than individually. We need to make sure that we are supporting each other and communicating the same message. Experimenting with New Behavior Group learning often involves encouraging members to try new things.