With the English term, ‘time-to-market’, the orientation on the quality focus ‘speed’ is embraced in organisations. Economic success, in ever more branches, markets and product lines, depends upon the product being able to be sold at an (early) point in time. Adhering to product development deadlines and delivery dates often results in intense competition with …
As leader, project manager or team consultant one requires an image about how a team’s guiding processes are constructed and how they are maintained. (More detailed questions, which are helpful here, can be found in the circles around the ‘analysis of team guiding processes’ in the metatheory of change <a href=”https://metatheorie-der-veraenderung.info/wpmtags/analyse-der-team-leitprozesse/”>Begriff</a>). It is important to …
One can only be a team consultant when one works for the team, and not for the team leader! One can observe, time and again, that team leaders wish to revamp their team by pursuing certain of their (own) goals with the help of a consultant, team developer or trainer. Even goals which initially appear …
The topic of contract clarification for team development is particularly significant from a metatheory viewpoint, because the concerns and goal settings of the team leader are often a part of the problem. As a consultant, one must always be clear that the actual ‘client’ is the team, never the team leadership. Those who make factual, …
Reflection on team reflection sounds peculiar, theoretical and convoluted. It is, too and yet it is very important. One can ignore it, but then the team is threatened with overlooking some important aspects of its effectiveness. Pragmatic and action-orientated people usually have understandable resistance to this. In calm and stable times, one can permit this …
The reflection on goal setting engages with the rejected alternative goals. The basic question is: “What risk is there in the team/the individual team member in doing and aspiring to do exactly that which he does and aspires to (and who therefore doesn’t or can’t do something else)?” The reflection about what one has decided …
To ensure team preservation, it must, and let this be emphasised once more, motivate two opposing worlds in such a way that they are ‘satisfied’ with the team: the team members and the organisation! If one wishes to reflect upon the patterns of this guiding distinction, from the viewpoint of the team, one can begin …
To reflect upon the goal processing patterns, one can use questions from this small selection: • In which regular activities is it expressed that we have problem positions as well as interest positions in view? • Which pole do we tend towards in the event of conflict? Would we prefer to lose the participants or …
A reflection on team parameters can take place on the content and the processual level. On a content level, this is always one of the most difficult, because, here, the question about a change in the composition of the team is being raised. Not least for this reason, teams as well as organisations tend to …