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Think of a group that you are (or were) part of that learned really well . . . what made it function so well?
Marshmallow challenge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0_yKBitO8M
Training group members to function as such prior to group engagement can improve interactions and increase productivity.
The Race
• 400-600 miles, non-stop Primal Quest Adventure Race
• Multi-disciplinary, expert teams • Unknown terrain, multiple routes• Challenges: mental and physical exhaustion,
navigational errors, injury• 75-95 teams each year• 55% of teams do not finish• Avg age=37, Avg exp=5.5 yrs• $250,000 purse
Map of Race
Day 1-2
Day 4-5
2004 Race Overview
50%
70% Conditional Claims
Assertive Claims
TeamPerformance
HighLow
30%
How do claims of knowing vary across teams?
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Team talk “let’s”“we”
Conflict is normal, inherent, and essential to community practice and organisational learning.
Which one holds more stuff?
“When a group is working well, we learn to listen to and respect diverse points of view, to share and exchange knowledge, and to clarify, modify, and extend our own thinking.”
Project Zero
IDEO shopping cart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M66ZU2PCIcM
“Leadership can be – and at its best, often is – a shared activity. Anyone and everyone who clarifies a team’s direction, improves its strategy, secures organizational support for it, or provides coaching that improves its performance is providing leadership.”
Professor Richard Hackman
How can leaders support group learning?Designing cultures that allows these dynamics to exist
generatively
Roles
Language
Routines
Artifacts
80% of professional knowledge is built informally.