This content outlines five key roles to adopt in group discussions (Initiator, Supporter, Opposer, Harmonizer, Summarizer) and demonstrates their application using the topic "Bollywood: A Blessing or a Pain for India."
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in order to win at a group discussion
it's important to understand that there
are five important roles that you can play
play
number one is an initiator somebody who
initiates a group discussion number two
is a strong supporter who generally
speaks in favor of the topic number
three strong opposer who has a
contrarian view against the topic number
four harmonizer someone who would
probably take a balanced view from both
sides and try to take a middle path
because he or she is trying to chop a
new solution in the situation and number
five a summarizer someone will typically
speak at the end and try to summarize or
wrap up the group discussion now let us
take a topic which is very popular in
various organizations and mba
institutions when it comes to group
discussions and the topic for today's
is bollywood a blessing or a pain
is it something which is a curse or a
boon when it comes to india now in this
topic suppose you have to initiate then
then
take a role which is neutral
an initiator always tries to introduce
the topic
an example could be as follows
my respected colleagues i welcome you
all to this group discussion being
organized by google and the topic which
has been given to us is is bollywood a
curse or a blessing for india now we
have very limited time total 15 minutes
have been given and it is a compulsory
consensus always the entire group will
get rejected therefore may i propose
that this topic of bollywood which is
really very relevant in india's social
economic and political context today
should be discussed in a very
dispassionate manner and we can evaluate
on three criterias
economic implications of bollywood
number two social implications of
bollywood and number three
global reach of india so if all of you
agree we can discuss these three
criteria to evaluate is bollywood a
blessing or a curse now
now
this is how an initiator introduced the
topic to everyone
without being biased
without saying that he or she is for or against
against
so if you are an initiator be neutral
and introduce the topic to everyone
the second criteria is a strong supporter
supporter now
now
let us take the example
where you
are strongly feeling that bollywood is
very good for india now what are the
points which you can quickly think of in
favor of bollywood and very quickly we
could talk about entertainment education
education economy
economy
employment and global appeal so we have
quickly listed out many points in favor
of bollywood
the trick now is to convert these points
into paragraphs
where you could speak for about 30 seconds
seconds
so let us assume a scenario where
your colleague has just introduced the
topic and you want to be the second
speaker supporting in favor of bollywood
so how would you go about it
thank you my friend for introducing the
topic i sincerely believe that bollywood
is a big blessing for our country and
there are various reasons so i feel that
the biggest benefit of bollywood is
entertainment in a society where we have
lot of stress lot of pressure there is
no greater and inexpensive entertainment
source as compared to bollywood movies
which are based on comedies or actions
or even thrillers add a vicarious
pleasure and give us lot of happiness i
would also like to say that bollywood is
a great source of education
there are various inspirational movies
like chaka day where srk played a great
role or lagaan where amir khan was a gay
patriot who won the game and these
educated movies help us develop a richer
perspective i would also like to say
that bollywood is a very big boon for
our economy because
overall i think the industry produces
about 20 000 crore rupees of revenue
every year and that really bolsters
india's overall economic progress so i
sincerely believe that bollywood a big plus
plus
now what did you do over here
quickly in about 40 seconds you spoke
about bollywood being a blessing in
terms of entertainment
education and economy
now let us take another example of a
third speaker who wants to oppose you
once again we need to quickly think of
points against bollywood
and as we think about it
there are various points but the first
one could be the nexus with underworld
second could be a cash driven
economy with a lot of black money in it
number three nepotism
especially the economic disparity where
the rich keep getting richer and the
poor struggle to make it happen fourth
fourth
instigates violence and crimes by
introducing techniques and fifth
damages the psyche of a child by making
the young and vulnerable exposed to
various crimes and evil practices
so how does a opposer frame the argument
now remember in a discussion try to
always be very respectful and polite
so here let's go
my worthy colleague i really believe
that you have put forward some
interesting points however
i wish to really humbly submit my views
which are slightly diversion from yours
there are three important reasons why i
think bollywood is a big curse for our
country and number one
the bulk of money although it's not
legally proven is speculated to be
coming from the underworld and when that
happens you are doing something which is
actually in some sense anti-national and
accordingly there is a lot of cash money
a lot of black market on which bollywood
thrives and therefore all of this is
really deleterious for our economy the
second thing is not just nepotism but
the economic disparity you have the big
cars the big actors who are becoming
richer and richer where an average man
cannot even survive in bollywood and
third and the most negative thing
against bollywood is that it really
gives wrong education to those who are
in the vulnerable strata
young kids youth which is impressionable
movies like kabir singh or various
movies which are about drug or crime can
only instigate them to the wrong
direction so i sincerely believe that
it's very vital to curtail bollywood and
make sure we have stronger censorship now
now
this time you gave a view which was
against but you also gave a solution
that there should be greater censorship
now here comes a fourth person who's in harmonizer
harmonizer
now harmonizer is a very smart strategy
because you have heard the views of the
supporter the opposer and now you want
to give the mid path with the solution
so how does a harmonizer speak so let's go
go
my dear friend mr amit mr mohan i think
both of you have put forward some
wonderful points and however i sincerely
believe that when we look at bollywood
it's probably a mixed bag
there are some wonderful contributions
which are happening to the economy
education entertainment there is no gain
saying the fact and also it really
brings great global appeal for india
because it's making india popular in
countries across the world indian movies
songs they spread the message of
friendship and of course make india a
more prosperous country
however it is also true that some kind
of explicit language explicit scenes and
some very sensitive topics should also
be curtailed in a better manner so may i
propose that we should do three actions
number one we must encourage stronger
censorship very unbiased and fear so
that we can control what content is
being viewed by whom
number two
we must also tell bollywood and sort of
encourage practices by which bollywood
is corporatized so that black money and
the underworld nexus can be eliminated so
so
big movie makers like disney or pvr or
various other producers should be
encouraged to work in a corporatized
manner and number three which i think is
most important is that bollywood must
really encourage equal opportunity
i think the fact that only the rich get the
the
big riches and the poor or the mediocre
actor doesn't get much is a very sorry
state of affairs so there must be more
fairer share of revenues which can
happen if there could be a formula in
corporate taxation structure whereby the
total revenues could be shared among a
larger base so i feel instead of
criticizing the entire bollywood let us
accept and welcome its good points but
at the same time let's caution and ask
for a change by which we can curtail or
eradicate its minus points so these are
my thoughts and i hope although the
group is very divided we could
eventually come to a consensus
that was the harmonizer
now let's assume the gd went for about
15 minutes and there was no consensus
and you hadn't spoken much
and the jury comes to you and says
why don't you summarize the topic
there comes the fifth rule which is the
summarizer now please remember a
summarizer is not expected to talk only
about his or her opinion but instead
is expected to present a neutral summary
of what transpired what was discussed so
one example of summarizer goes as follows
follows
my dear friends thank you so much for
allowing me to be the summarizer over
here so i believe we had a very
vivacious and very creative group
discussion where everybody came up with
very interesting ideas unfortunately the
group was very widely divided there were
some who really felt that bollywood is a
blessing but others who felt that
bollywood is a curse so
those who were in favor of bollywood
spoke about the fact that bollywood
provides entertainment education and
helps the economy and it also helps the
global appeal those who were opposing
strongly spoke about the impact on the
vulnerable segment especially children
and the youth some promotion of
unfortunately evil practices things like
drugs or some crime being glorified and
finally the nexus with underworld and
various criminal activities related to
the black market however there were some
colleagues who had forward-looking
solution related to the actions which
could be done and the group generally
felt that bollywood is a big spark
and therefore as a country we must keep
working to let bollywood self-transform
by focusing on three things number one
more strict content censorship
number two
inculcating corporate practices
and number three ensuring that there is
fairer divide of the income so i think
this is how i like to summarize the
group discussion thank you
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