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• Without Support You Will Fall

  History provides lessons for teams. Let’s take the time to explore a few of them. This post explores patterns that I see resulting from the interaction of ability, demands and support. Let me explicitly state what I mean by those variables –... Posted Jan 29 2010, 11:10 AM by Steven M. Smith's Being Effective Filed under: team, Blogs, leadership, bored pattern, skilled pattern, swamped pattern, ability, support, energized pattern, pattern, demands, scuttled pattern

• Tripwire Removal

  I have rules. You have rules. Teams have rules. Rules trip up both individuals and teams causing unintended consequences. We learn rules about such things as what we must do, what we can question, and what we can say. A rule dictates behavior. But when... Posted Jan 17 2010, 10:11 PM by Steven M. Smith's Being Effective Filed under: team, teamwork, productivity, Blogs, rules

• Organizing the Team

  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... Posted Dec 29 2009, 02:25 PM by Steven M. Smith's Being Effective Filed under: Workshops, workshop, team, synergy, context, teamwork, productivity

• Protecting the Team

  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... Posted Dec 28 2009, 12:49 PM by Steven M. Smith's Being Effective Filed under: Workshops, workshop, membership, feelings, team, exclusion

• Seeing the Organization Anew

  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... Posted Dec 28 2009, 12:10 PM by Steven M. Smith's Being Effective Filed under: Workshops, workshop, team, organization, relationship, org chart