SUPPORTIVE GROUP
What is supportive group?
A supportive group is a team of small number of people, who get together on a regular basis or as and when required to share their ideas and knowledge on different fields, and encouraging one another, with an aim to achieve their goals, while exchanging the information with whole heartedness and enthusiasm.
Supportive groups – oxygen to perseverance
As oxygen is to our existence, so is the supportive group for success of any endeavor, Goals, aims, targets and dreams are nice words to listen and contemplate, but in order to reach our targets, we know what are the qualities we need to have and what type of friends do we need to have. Always try to mingle with the people who are supportive and never spend your valuable time with heckling or taunting group. Your success in achieving your goal needs to be pushed up all the time, with the help of supportive group. What qualities one needs to look at for the supportive group, that depends on one’s own ability in picking up, maintaining and sharing the ideas, which is very nucleus while achieving target.
Luckily, I have one friend namely Aluri Srinivas, who is a project leader in one of the MNCs. He has profound knowledge with aspiring students. His enthusiasm to share his knowledge with the students is really appreciable and laudable. Any takers! Whenever, I happened to meet him, he always converses and contemplates about the students, and how to make them choose righteous path in learning software, whether it is a language or an application or a tool. He is an asset to any organization and having him around is a great thing and I feel it.
Characteristics and advantages of supportive group :-
Provides an opportunity for people who involve in a venture to share success stories, exchange ideas and learn more about how to cope.
It is the best place for finding out, where to go for help in times of need and urgency. It creates a conducive environment for overall development of group members.
These support groups are made up of people with common interests and varied experiences.
Members may meet regularly for one or two hours and sometimes on a weekly or fortnightly basis, sometimes monthly according to the convenience, need and urgency.
These supportive groups generally run meetings either formally or informally, and there will not be any strict rule.
The supportive group is an open system where people cooperate with each other; share their knowledge for betterment of each individual.
The group existence emphasizes that support to the members does not guarantee that the goals envisioned will be achieved.
In matters related to monetary help, members support among themselves, purely on amity basis and voluntary and not as a burden.
It is a simple group and member based unknown organization and not a capital based organization.
