The Synergistic Adventures

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The Synergistic Adventures

• Traveling Through the
• 7 Synergy Steps

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What is Synergy?

• What do you think?
• Do you think your clan has had it?
• Do you think your clan can have it?

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What is Synergy?

• Energies coming together to produce something
  whole that is different from or more desirable
  than the sum of its constituent parts. -
  Rebecca Chan Allen (2002)
• A B C
• 1 1 3
• Requires more than one person (ie. a team)

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Relevance of Teamwork

• Youre part of a TEAM of OLs
• Your Clan is a TEAM (rather than a group)

• Organizational move towards self-directed
  teamwork
• Applicable to school groupwork

Is it about more than just performance?
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Groups Teams

• Can be a pain
• Your story

• Can do more
• Your story

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Leading Leaderless Teams

• A person provides leadership when they do
  something that helps a group or organization
  achieve its goals or increase its effectiveness.
• - Bushe (2001)

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Functional Teams

• Good team relationships are
• Trusting
• Caring
• Helpful
• Open
• Honest
• Respectful

• Bad team relationships are
• Unreasonable
• Unreliable
• Unfair
• Selfish
• Threatening
• Inflexible

Climate?
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Our Offer to You

• You have a dangerous and difficult journey ahead
• What it is and isnt
• It is not a promise of synergy
• It is a process/tool that can help us get there!

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So Lets Get Started!
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The 7 Synergy Steps

• Task rules explained
• 0) Solitudes - be alone, think, develop
  distinctiveness.
• Attract Solitudes - come into a circle CIRCLE!
• Create Common Ground - establish team vision,
  goals, mission.
• Accentuate Distinctiveness - share your
  experience as a solitude.
• 3 seconds between
• Be open, appreciate the contribution

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The 7 Synergy Steps

• Dissolve Boundaries - facilitator will point your
  team in the right direction and then gently push
  you through
• Proliferating Resources
• Journeying into the Unknown.
• Maintain a positive climate
• 7) Creation of New Possibilities -
  facilitator will find your team at this point.
  Recognize that something special has happened!

CELEBRATE!
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From Rebecca Chan Allens Guiding Change
Journeys (2002)