Developing Leadership Teams
The growth of interpersonal relationships that make communal
discernment real
CLC Leadership Is Participatory
• Requires strong interpersonal relationship skills
• Skills have to be learned and developed over time with explicit intention.
Positive interpersonal relationships are essential for strongly collaborative leadership
From the roots of the Christian tradition comes the compelling Gospel call to peacemaking and companionship in and with Jesus and his friends
From our earliest Ignatian Roots came the call to be men and women for and with others.
CLC Leadership fosters relationship within and among
members and member communities at every level of participation and across all
persons and bodies of persons
This quality of interpersonal relationship manifests itself in and through:
• Cooperation• Respectful
Trust• Generous
Sharing
• Human warmth
• Shared responsibility
• Gracious and purposeful fellowship
• Effective management of differences with life-giving conflict resolution
Nurturing TeamworkCLC Leadership
(Shared Responsibility)
comes from a set of values that:
• Encourages a pattern of listening and responding constructively to views expressed by others
• Provides support
• Creates synergy
• Manifests openness to imagination
• Acts for the common good
• Requires respect for differences
• Discerns the on-going desire of God for the community at every level of life
• Recognizes solidarity with all others in sin and salvation, forgiving and being forgiven, loving and being loved.
Case Study
• Find a partner• Take a few minutes to reflect on an
experience of CLC leadership that you consider unsuccessful
• Share with the partner the experience and the reasons or elements that you think made it unsuccessful
• 10 minutes for both
PERFORMINGTEAMWORK
Close teamwork
FORMINGTESTING
Wondering
STORMINGINFIGHTING
Controlling conflicts
NORMINGGETTING ORGANIZED
Developing Skills
STAGE TWO
STAGE TREE
STAGE ONE
STAGE FOUR
Interpersonal Relationships in Group Dynamics
TEAMWORK (Performing)
Close teamworkOpen communicationAppreciating differencesResourcefulFlexibleEffectiveInnovative
TESTING (Forming)Wondering
Caution or careful commentsPolitenessImpersonalWatchfulGuarded
INFIGHTING (Storming)Controlling conflicts
Confronting peopleOpting outDifficultiesFeeling stuckDirection linessFrustratedLow production
GETTING ORGANIZED(Norming) Developing Skills
Establishing proceduresGiving feedbackConfronting issuesSetting goalsMaking progress STAGE
TWOSTAGE TREE
STAGE ONE
STAGE FOUR
Interpersonal Relationships in Group Dynamics
Interpersonal Relationships in Group Dynamics
• It’s not a linear but an ongoing process • Teams can go back on 1st or 2nd step after having
reached Performing-level• There is the need for the guide to help the group
to go forward• Throughout all the stages be aware of the
elements of unconscious behaviour• Be aware of the elements that affect
interpersonal relationship (different perceptions, stressful situations, ego, passion)
CLC is….
A community helps discovering and live one’s personal vocation for common mission
Identity
Vocation
Mission
Relationship of identity, vocation & Mission
Vocation
IdentityMission
In His works
Each one is called and missionThe team members need to be
invited to find God in their mission
As CLC leaders…• Draw community members to initial dream/vision as a
source of energy• Live out & help members to live out Ignatian Spirituality
through community• Commit to our Way of Proceeding (Discern-Send-
Support-Evaluation)• Empower member’s gifts – Cura Personalis• Develop individual roles/job descriptions as a team• Attend to common problems /challenges that affect all
/most members• Use effective leadership styles & tools, including conflict
resolution