The Well-Designed Team creating and sustaining momentum Sarah B. Nelson | MX 2015 @sarahbeee
Aug 12, 2015
The Well-Designed Teamcreating and sustaining momentum
Sarah B. Nelson | MX 2015@sarahbeee
creative team
developmentwww.radicallyhuman.com
creative leadership developmentwww.radicalvisionary.com
creating energy & sustaining momentum
Read your team’s energyChoose an effective response
todayWork with emotional & creative energyExplore it in uncommon waysUncover patterns and trapsSoul-satisfying ways to work with your teamBring it back to you and your team
breaks?one at about 10:30
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take care of your needs!
tool: alliancewhat climate do we want to create together?
what fuels a creative team?
fuelsstrong purposeconnection with othersdiversitynew informationfeeling of impactfreedom of what and how
drainsunclear purposetoxic behaviorsuniformitystagnationno feeling of impactrestrictive processes
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obsessed design
collaborativecreativity
obsessed
mind body spirit
The Well-Designed Teama mindset and a system designed to take the mystery out of team dynamics and make creative work work
The Well-Designed Team
system
systemInception, Birth, StartupCreating Energy and Sustaining MomentumStorms, Messes, and The ShitChanges, Uncertainty, and DisruptionFlow and PerformanceMaintenance and PracticeDissolution, Endings, and New Beginnings
The Well-Designed Team
mindset
mind body spirit
clouds & clocks
fascination
who knows what is good and what is bad?
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Teams a living entity, more than a collection of individuals.
Exquisite Corpse Series, Jake Chapman
Photo by Hani Mohammed/AP
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Mary Beth Meehanhttp://marybethmeehan.tumblr.com/
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INTENSITY
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emotional climate reference tool
activity1. Design your alliance2. Review your scenario and
complete the worksheet3. Brainstorm interventions4. Create a poster together
tool: alliancewhat environment do we want to create together?
scenarioA team constantly nitpicks each other. They get in lost in what feels like trivial details — engaging in endless semantic debates, disagreeing about which tools to use, constantly correcting and one-upping each other.
What is the emotional climate?
What metaphors, images, or colors might you use to describe the emotional climate?
scenarioA team constantly nitpicks each other. They get in lost in what feels like trivial details — engaging in endless semantic debates, disagreeing about which tools to use, constantly correcting and one-upping each other.
Why it might be positiveThis might be norming: defining terms and building trust.
Why it might be a problemThis might mask some deeper trust issues and could become toxic if it lasts too long.
tool: antidoteshow can you take advantage of emotional contagion to either amplify or shift the environment
scenarioA team constantly nitpicks each other. They get in lost in what feels like trivial details — engaging in endless semantic debates, disagreeing about which tools to use, constantly correcting and one-upping each other.
What interventions might you make?
activity1. Design your alliance2. Review your scenario and
complete the worksheet3. Brainstorm interventions4. Create a poster together
The Well-Designed Team
tools
toolssensing & specifyingemotional antidotesalliancehi/lo dreams2% truth
QUALITY
INTENSITY
dark light
low
high
tool: sensing & specifying
tool: antidotesuse emotional contagion to either amplify or shift the climate
tool: alliancewhat climate do we want to create together?
tool: hi/lo dreamswhat is your highest hope?what is your worst fear?which are you closest too right now?
tool: 2% truthwhat is the smallest true thing you can discover in this situation?
creative team
developmentwww.radicallyhuman.com
creative leadership developmentwww.radicalvisionary.com
slides: www.radicallyhuman.com/mx15