The goal of team building is to develop a method that will reduce the dysfunctional interaction and allow future problems to be ameliorated before a team breakdown occurs.
Learning, and making progress on meaningful work are the 2 easiest ways to increase creativity and retain the talented people within your organization.
Part of sense-making is removing the perceived expert from your work and placing you, the expert, at the periphery of your work.
In my research within organizations and informal discussions the idea of trust, felt-fairness, liberty, being unencumbered to complete your work without some asshole (or manipulative procedure) constricting you, are what most people want from their employer.
Leadership and Team Coaching sound nice until you have to put it into practice. I’ve developed a team and leadership coaching process called SOLVED.
Understanding that we cannot borrow best-practices from someone else, we needed to define Quality Improvement Current Behaviors within the context of the current organizations capacity, resources, attractors, repellents, and skills. Working, as a team, through the questions and responses we arrived a shared vision and co-constructed plan.
Using a variety of Skeleton-Keys makes the cooperation within teams and people more likely due to the fact that you are working along using their expertise as the momentum of change.
By attempting to dig deeper you will taint the discussion based upon your assumption that you’ve found the root cause, this is not the others root cause – it is your assumption of their response.
Using the current environment and resources as good enough (because the team / person created and works that environment) respects the interactive nature of work and may bring change about through a small nudge as opposed to a prescriptive yank.
Dialog with a team on how they view a challenge, opportunity or space. Shared understanding of what a team accepts it must also reject some aspect. Understanding and dialog of how each person and the collective group views a challenge, opportunity or space.