Working with a corporate team to identify new product and service ideas, we quickly found the team falling victim to group-think. Following a short break, the people returned to find stacks of index cards at their table and the MindSpin guidelines on a Flip Chart.
The outcomes from our Strategic Planning Time:
Develop thematic goals for the next 5 years;
Team building with the staff and faculty;
Create a shared history on successes and what got us to where we are;
Co-create a shared future and action steps to get to future goals
Having a team in a new environment or working in a familiar environment in a new way, involved in team building activities and discussions. Will cause the team to behave As-If they are a team and the positive sides of team work will emerge. Evidenced through processing of having shared goals, systems-of-communication, people laughing, ideas being listened too and considered, etc…
Stop the madness! As a manager / team leader you are paid to do everything possible to help employees be as successful as they need to be.
Believing that you are successful and you know what others are thinking is self-destructive behavior.
To get unstuck you need to do something different.
Spent some time facilitating team building with the Gifford Foundation from Syracuse NY.
In order for you to be accountable for doing your best you must know what to put your best towards.
Organizations, teams, and people really want to do their best work.
In a workshop or consultation or coaching meeting we can create a system-that-drives the desired behaviors. BUT when people go back to their workplaces that’s when the real learning and system change takes place.
Consistently I find that those that are seen as high-performers get more work. They come to be resentful of the extra work so they slow down their rate of production or lessen the quality of their work or stop trying so hard or fall into victimhood or seek to transfer out of the company all together.
The elimination of things that cause dissatisfaction does not equate to satisfaction.