![]() Collective Nouns - Animals, Birds & Insects herdUse this with many animals that eat grass. You can often use these with more than one animal, but often the animals share certain characteristics. Heres a list of ten common collective nouns. ![]() Ask me again in half a million years.īy the way, my two favourite collective nouns are an IMPLAUSIBILITY of gnus and a MURDER of magpies. We use many different 'collective nouns' to talk about groups of animals, birds or insects. Maybe we are still best suited to succeed in small hunter gatherer families where the organisation just comes naturally. The management of people seems so artificial and unsophisticated by comparison … performance reviews and job descriptions and mission letters and project ‘kick offs’ and KPIs and performance data and assessment centres and … and … Maybe the human race is not yet at an evolutionary stage which allows us to thrive in large groups called organisations so we need all of these performance mechanisms to force the issue. ![]() Most of the group names came from The Book of St. The SHOAL of herring must turn and dive because a small number of herring give a signal and a MOB of meerkats has some invisible organisation. Five hundred years ago, gentlemen used specialized vocabulary when referring to groups of animals. I could have just found the few managers (probably not the boss) who drive the whole SHOAL, HERD, PACK or whatever word you choose and worked only with these people to change mind-sets and performance of the whole group. Maybe I have been wasting my time and I should have been looking at the group not the individuals. Yet I have spent a lot of my career trying to get managers to think about their individual performance, thinking that if everyone works effectively then the culture of the group will develop positively. Just like a SEETHING of eels or a PARLIAMENT of owls, once you get managers together, the identity, the intelligence and the culture of their organisation is clearly visible. A PARADE of managers (all lipstick and shiny shoes without any real content to back it up), a MAUL of managers (tight packed, cohesive and full of aggression), a RACE of managers (plenty of speed but not much attention to direction) and a LIBRARY of managers (erudite, thoughtful, struggling for funding and going nowhere). Here are a few examples from experience to get you started. a bunch of flowers, a flock of seagulls, a set of tools. Collective nouns are often followed by OF + PLURAL NOUN. Collective Nouns are sometimes called Group Nouns. If a group of baboons is called a FLANGE, a group of bacteria is called a COLONY, a group of bears is called a SLEUTH, a group of budgerigars is a called a CHATTER and a group of crabs is called a BUSHEL … then what would you choose as the collective noun for managers in your organisation? A collective noun is a word that refers to a set or group of people, animals or things. ![]()
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