Barriers and Opportunities for top management teams
It is ironic that many top management teams cannot provide a model for effective teamwork since many of them are senior organizational veterans with rich experience working in & leading teams.
Changes in Team Leadership from crisis to stability
In crisis team leadership bends towards short-term specification of “just do it!” The concept of coaching & development is lost in the need do it, do it fast, do it my way.
Changes in team norms from crisis to stability
Team norms that develop during a crisis are likely to be dysfunctional during periods of stability.
Changes in Team Composition Crisis to Stability
This change in team composition broke the inertia – stuckness that team and team leader had been unable to resolve.
Redefining the team task change from crisis to stability
A crisis demands action and provides clear direction for that action. In stability the tasks of the management team are ambiguous.
A leadership challenge in creating and sustaining team performance
Strong directive leadership frequently is required in a crisis. Once stability is achieved a more cooperative style is useful.
11 Questions to Determine the Current Condition of a Management Team
These questions have supported the team to better understand what each person can offer and need from the team.
Finding Solutions What difference will it make to them–Skeleton Keys
When a significant other is part of the complaint shifting perspective to understand how the difference will impact them may cause a shift in pattern. Identifying how the difference will change their reaction allows a focus on external as opposed to internal change.
Solution Finding Stimulus Do Enough But Not All
Sometimes the useful result is between the two extremes of doing all or nothing.
Facilitation is Your Work Use Your Judgment
What you do in the moment that requires you to make a decision that is based upon your mental processing, the process by which you take information, pick it over, play with it, analyze it, put it together, reorganize it, judge and reason with it, make conclusions, plans and decisions, and take action makes your work as a facilitator valuable.