Interaction Patterns The keys for Highly Productive Teams Michael R. Wolf [email protected]@LearningWolf 206-679-7941 Bring life to meetings and other gatherings Including and unleashing everyone visualize learn improve All live in greatness All Mammals Learn by Playing Liberating Structures
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Group Interaction Patterns - The Keys for Highly Productive Teams (Better Software East - Nov 2012)
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Group InteractionPatternsThe keys for Highly Productive Teams
- What can we do to reliably get the worst result imaginable?
- How does this compare with current procedures?
- What can we stop doing? Distribute Participation
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Configure Groups
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Sequence & Allocate Time
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GW - Group WorksPattern Card Deck
“A pattern language for bringing life to meetings and other gatherings” 3 years of design, writing, and layout from “core team” Each of 91 Cards in 9 Categories has:
- Title
- Image
- Heart
- Related cards
- Category glyph
First printing 4Q2011
“Steward Circle” is getting wisdom out to users, and also listening to how they’re being used
Common uses- Pre-event planning & Post-event evaluation
- Individual & Team skill development
- Breaking out of a fixed mindset
Core team: Tree Bressen, Dave Pollard, Sue Woehrlin
Needs “stewards” and early adopters. (Contact me!)
Group Works Card Deck Support your process
- group convenor, - planner, - facilitator, or - participant
Years in the making Collected from best meetings
Design Pattern -> “Things that work in groups…” … across size … across context
What you get… 91 Full color cards … a few blank cards A 5-panel “key” to categories A history and selected uses
The whole deck
Group Works Card Deck Categories1. Intent – Why are we here? What are we aiming to accomplish?
2. Context – Circumstances of place and culture.
3. Relationship – Connection with others. Emotional needs.
4. Flow – Rhythm, energy, pacing.
5. Creativity - Multiple intelligences and a variety of modes.
6. Perspective – Watch, understand, and appreciate divergent viewpoints.
7. Modeling – Enable personal and collective self-management
9. Faith - Trusting the mystery, synergy, and ineffable, complex magic of emergence.
Case Study(from GW)
Situation- Regular meeting felt like it was getting in a rut. Power
dynamics of de-facto leader seemed to be excluding perspectives. I saw opportunity for group as training lab to gain experience at facilitating, not merely content.
Experiments- Facilitate input from quieter participants
- Balance the interruption dynamic
- One-on-one discussion about group/individual values
11 Commitments1. I commit to engage when present.2. I will seek to perceive more than I seek to be perceived.3. I will use teams, especially when undertaking difficult tasks.…11. I will never do anything dumb on purpose.