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Collaboration and Shared Leadership
Michael Dimeo, Ph.D.
October 29, 2012
Objectives
Review our experiences on past teams and explore individual versus collaborative behaviors
Look to future teams we will be on and consider a couple of practices that will encourage collaboration
Team Charters
A team charter is a set of expectations with which everyone on the team agrees.
Goals
Norms
Meeting
Working
Leadership
Communication
Leadership
Rewards and Sanctions
The Fundamental Difference Between Debate and Dialogue
Debate: We treat our views as truths that ought to be accepted.
Dialogue: We treat our views as hypotheses that ought to be tested.
Basic Rules for Dialogue
Be open and suspend judgment. Don’t disparage others points of view.
Keep dialogue and decision making separate; dialogue precedes decision making, negotiations, and action.
Treat all participants as peers.
Listen with empathy. Acknowledge you have heard others and that you care.
Look for common ground. Identify areas where you agree.
Search for and disclose hidden assumptions—especially in yourself.
The Process
State your position
Explain your thinking behind it
Test your position with others
Inquire about other’s thinking
Task-Facilitating Team Roles
Direction giving
Information seeking
Information giving
Elaborating
Coordinating
Monitoring
Process analyzing
Reality testing
Enforcing
Summarizing
Relationship-Building Roles
Supporting
Harmonizing
Tension relieving
Energizing
Developing
Facilitating
Processing
Blocking Roles
Overanalyzing
Overgeneralizing
Faultfinding
Premature decision making
Presenting opinions as facts
Rejecting
Pulling rank
Dominating
Stalling