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Organizing the Team

December 29, 2009 by Steven M. Smith Leave a Comment

Workshop When you are a member of team, what hopes do you have for productivity? My hope is for synergy, by which I mean team productivity that is clearly superior to what the sum of the individual members' productivity might have been working separately. Productive teamwork -- that's the desire. But how do you organize the team to achieve … [Read more...]

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Protecting the Team

December 28, 2009 by Steven M. Smith 2 Comments

Workshop A vital task for a successful team is to extend membership to the right people and deny membership to the wrong people. If you add or persist with the wrong people, the team will fail at some level. Feelings about who is excluded cut deep. Talk to anyone about exclusion and you will hear a personal story about a … [Read more...]

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Seeing the Organization Anew

December 28, 2009 by Steven M. Smith Leave a Comment

Workshop Does your organization want help analyzing its intergroup dynamics? Does your team want help diagnosing its own intepersonal dynamics? Do you want help interpreting the state of your relationships with other members of the organization? The typical org chart belies the state of the organization. It shows a hierarchical structure … [Read more...]

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Integrating Your Personal Board of Directors

December 19, 2009 by Steven M. Smith 1 Comment

Workshop Each person has their own personal board of directors. The board members are the parts of ourselves that are constantly interacting inside our head. If your board members constantly bicker and fight, these inner conflicts manifest themselves as dysfunctional behavior. Pioneering family therapist Virginia Satir used a process, a Parts … [Read more...]

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Managing Yourself, Managing Meetings

December 19, 2009 by Steven M. Smith Leave a Comment

Workshop Is your time being wasted in meetings? For example, you join a problem solving meeting attended by the right six people. But the discussion wanders aimlessly and contributes little to the solution. You feel your time was squandered and wish you would have invested your time doing something that would have made a difference for … [Read more...]

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