Teams often struggle with the differences between a compromise & a consensus style in dealing with conflict on the team. Compromise can usually resolve conflict fairly quickly, but when the issue is very important, holding out for consensus is worth the extra time and effort.
Team Leaders and Managers are not born. With the necessary environment conditions anyone can exercise effective leadership.
Following good conflict-management procedures can have a highly positive effect on the team.
Routine team work may just need to get accomplished quickly & be done.
Innovative or complex team work may require learning & risk that creates variations from normal work routines.
Managing & working on teams the procedures being used must be known, shared and understood. What are often seen as ‘personality conflicts’ are usually just people with unknown work procedures.
It was a great 2 days of consulting & team development, plus being in the Middle East was an amazing experience. The team leaders & managers of Zain Telecommunications impressed me with their knowledge, ability to find connections of the team building with their work, plus ability to laugh while taking themselves seriously.
The notion that a team can define accountability & authority means that they know the outcome before it happens & have removed all ambiguity, judgment, innovation & human interaction from the work. That to me sounds like a robot path to disengagement.
The images and process to frame Value Propositions and create a shared method to capture stories of what’s-working + what’s-not-working.
Following good meeting management procedures can have a highly positive effect on the team.
Managing and working on teams the procedures being used must be known, shared and understood. What are often seen as ‘personality conflicts’ are usually just people with unknown procedures on how to accomplish the work.