Team Rhythm

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Team Rhythm

• Moving Towards Synergy

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Learning Outcomes

• Foster interpersonal trust and team alignment
• Facilitate creative collaboration
• Link each persons unique contribution to team
  objectives
• Balance intellectual and emotional intelligence

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I. Appreciative Inquiry Discovery

• Think back through your experience belonging to
  a team, either in your career or your personal
  life.
• Locate a moment that was a high point when you
  felt most effective and engaged.
• Describe how you felt, and what made that
  situation possible.

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II. Appreciative Inquiry Discovery

• Describe how you stay professionally energized,
  enthusiastic and connected to your colleagues in
  times of conflict or change.

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Team Building Phases
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Four Musical Phases

• Control
• Chaos
• Silence
• Synergy

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III. Appreciative Inquiry Dream Design

• What unique contribution or mastery path do you
  commit to for yourself and for the benefit of
  your team?
• Describe your most potent, concrete wish for the
  future of your team.

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Five Bold Steps Vision
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Cross Cultural Comparisons
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IV. Appreciative Inquiry Destiny

• Was there a qualitative difference between the
  first and this last musical phase? Why (or why
  not)?
• What would operating in the high-performance zone
  look, sound and feel like? Describe it in detail.

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References

• Different Drum, Community Making and Peace by M.
  Scott Peck, 1987
• The Power of Appreciative Inquiry by Diana
  Whitney Amanda Trosten-Bloom, 2003
• Cultures Organizations, Software of the Mind by
  Geert Hofstede, 1997

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Contact Information

• Team Rhythm
• Phone [phone]
• Email paul_at_teamrhythm.com