| Facilitating Group Dynamics Meetings and Focus Groups Use Vision ALIVE to give focus to the Initiation and Vitalizing stages of our approach:
Promote a Healthy and High Performing Organization Use Team ALIVE to give focus to Learning from observation, individual reflection and group reflection: Whether trying to get past a road block or wanting an organizational health check up, teams can learn to:
You may choose to use an inventory to begin the conversation of dynamics in the group. Either the AMSP Apter Motivational Style Profile (exploring reversal theory and the choices available to us) or the MBTI Myers-Briggs Type Indicator might be useful to support this work. Many groups benefit from open discussion of the emotional intelligence elements and how the elements are in play in their organization. The EQ-I Emotional Intelligence Quotient can serve as a springboard for group discussion and individual development. Leaders can reinforce a healthy organizational climate by:
You may choose to employ the ALPS Apter Leadership Profile System that provides insight into organizational climate with 180 degree input. You may choose the Campbell Leadership Index, CL-I, with 360 degree input into leadership parameters. |
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ALIVE
Act Do something
Learn From what you have done
Initiate Create a possibility for change
Vitalize Give life to your creation
Engage With people and the system in going forward
Act Do something
Learn From what you have done
Initiate Create a possibility for change
Vitalize Give life to your creation
Engage With people and the system in going forward
| Introducing: Finding Our Music Think of music you have heard live. Usually you were listening to multiple instruments. Musicians say that each instrument has a voice. A bass, a piano, drums, saxophone, trumpet, violin (or fiddle), guitar, clarinet, each has a tonality and capability that is distinct. And these voices contrast and blend their individual contributions into a complex and beautiful creation. As you watch and listen to the musical creation you appreciate the contribution each voice makes to an interesting and pleasing whole. In an organization, each person has a voice. All voices are important to the creation of the organization—its products and performance. When each person is encouraged to make his/her voice heard and all are listening for that voice in appreciation of its distinct value then the organization will benefit. We are sometimes tempted to ignore a voice that is not saying what is expected, or to ignore the voice we seldom hear. While we might make faster decisions in that manner, we lose the richness of full possibilities. Whoever is there brings the voices we need to hear. And what happens when they come together in the organization? What is the capacity, what is the music of the organization, given the voices and the strengths and the aspirations that are there? Discover that music, that song that is yours through facilitated brainstorming and discussion. We take a group through a process of appreciating individual voices and then understanding the unique music that this organization can make. The session is highly interactive, makes use of basic instruments and a jazz DVD and brings in an inspiring video. At the client’s request, we can schedule with musicians to play and talk about their process. Program Length: 1 Day. We can reconfigure it in other ways to meet client needs. |
"In every walk with Nature,
one receives far more
than [one] seeks."
-John Muir
one receives far more
than [one] seeks."
-John Muir