Team Management

The understanding of the function of team management must, from a metatheory viewpoint, be based upon the defined guiding processes. Current concepts, which unilaterally overload (and with it, over-estimate) team management with directing, managing, motivating and goalsetting are in extensive crisis. Not least for this reason, complaints are often and readily made about the competence …

In teams, conflicts always develop <span class=”hs_kw”>Konflikte</span>. There are several reasons for this: • The team (often) stands in competition with other teams. Competition arises either about who is the better team, or who can assert themselves in the balancing of interests (conflicting goals, budget, resources etc.). Additionally, it is in competition with the expectations …

Groups are constantly working out whether they are changing or remaining as they are. This process is unavoidable (like breathing). It is the main reason for the instability of most groups and for the effort which is often required for the stabilisation of group members. When a group becomes a team (see <a href=”https://metatheorie-der-veraenderung.info/wpmtags/team-oder-gruppe/”>hier</a>), at …

We use a clear and simple differentiation between a group and a team. A group can freely choose its goal and the task connected with it and it forms itself exactly for this purpose (“We make flower arrangements.”). Groups without a shared goal, but with the same goal we call a collection (people in a …

Teams cannot grow at will. There are two reasons why this is so: • If a team relies upon working on tasks together, then the ‘demands’ to be passive grow too large, both in action (“I want to do it now!”) and in communication (“I want to say something, as well!”). In groups of more …

Talk therapy, as originated by Carl Rogers, forms a milestone in the development of counselling, because he has moved the significance of the direct contact between the counsellor and the client into the centre point of his theory. Thus, he provides a counterpoint to the distant and unapproachable manner of analysts and, therefore, he found …

A very significant further development of depth-psychology theory in Germany is being advanced by the Operationalised Psychodynamic Diagnostic Working Circle, “<a href=”https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operationalisierte_Psychodynamische_Diagnostik” target=”_blank”>Arbeitskreis OPD</a>”. The concept, with differing foci (axes), the thinking in polarities and conflict dispositions, as well as the relevance of the counselling relationship correlate with a whole series of psychological guiding processes …

Alberto Pesso has developed a unique way of supporting people in not feeling like victims of their past. His way of consequently exploring, together with the clients, how and who they would be if they had received that which they needed, can be understood, metatheoretically, as a principle: The past is relevant as long as …

John Bowlby’s attachment theory is so interesting from a metatheory viewpoint, because, over a long period of time, there are many studies of the patterns of attachment behaviour that he has formulated. There is a lot to learn about the stability of patterns in self- and relationship management and about how these patterns affect many …

The psychoanalyst, Stavros Mentzos, has, in a special way, worked on revealing the inner ambivalences of needs and the psychodynamic function regarding fears about needs. His diagnostic principle, that all behavioural abnormalities are a consequence of inner conflicts, is one example of many (which also exist in other psychological strands), that people can be sympathetically …