In the early 90’s when I was a facilitator for an outdoor education company, I had the opportunity to work with a group of business leaders and elected officials from the state of Virginia. Except for the alligator in the final event, for the most part, it was your standard ropes course and outdoor team-building […]
Unsolvable Problems
There are some problems that are impossible to solve. For example, is it more important that we have flexibility in a time of rapid change to deal with customer demands, or that we have greater structures to prevent stupid mistakes? The question itself is contrived, since we clearly need both structure AND flexibility. Yet within […]
Is a lack or fear of conflict really a dysfunction of a team?
“In Patrick Lencioni’s book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, lack of conflict was identified as one of the 5 reasons why a team can be/is ineffective. Personally, I do not have any issue with healthy conflict, so this was not a difficult concept for me to adopt. However, many leaders discourage conflict in their […]
