Developing Leadership Teams

The growth of interpersonal relationships that make communal

discernment real

CLC Leadership Is Participatory

• Requires strong interpersonal relationship skills

• Skills have to be learned and developed over time with explicit intention.

Positive interpersonal relationships are essential for strongly collaborative leadership

From the roots of the Christian tradition comes the compelling Gospel call to peacemaking and companionship in and with Jesus and his friends

From our earliest Ignatian Roots came the call to be men and women for and with others.

CLC Leadership fosters relationship within and among

members and member communities at every level of participation and across all

persons and bodies of persons

This quality of interpersonal relationship manifests itself in and through:

• Cooperation• Respectful

Trust• Generous

Sharing

• Human warmth

• Shared responsibility

• Gracious and purposeful fellowship

• Effective management of differences with life-giving conflict resolution

Nurturing TeamworkCLC Leadership

(Shared Responsibility)

comes from a set of values that:

• Encourages a pattern of listening and responding constructively to views expressed by others

• Provides support

• Creates synergy

• Manifests openness to imagination

• Acts for the common good

• Requires respect for differences

• Discerns the on-going desire of God for the community at every level of life

• Recognizes solidarity with all others in sin and salvation, forgiving and being forgiven, loving and being loved.

Case Study

• Find a partner• Take a few minutes to reflect on an

experience of CLC leadership that you consider unsuccessful

• Share with the partner the experience and the reasons or elements that you think made it unsuccessful

• 10 minutes for both

PERFORMINGTEAMWORK

Close teamwork

FORMINGTESTING

Wondering

STORMINGINFIGHTING

Controlling conflicts

NORMINGGETTING ORGANIZED

Developing Skills

STAGE TWO

STAGE TREE

STAGE ONE

STAGE FOUR

Interpersonal Relationships in Group Dynamics

TEAMWORK (Performing)

Close teamworkOpen communicationAppreciating differencesResourcefulFlexibleEffectiveInnovative

TESTING (Forming)Wondering

Caution or careful commentsPolitenessImpersonalWatchfulGuarded

INFIGHTING (Storming)Controlling conflicts

Confronting peopleOpting outDifficultiesFeeling stuckDirection linessFrustratedLow production

GETTING ORGANIZED(Norming) Developing Skills

Establishing proceduresGiving feedbackConfronting issuesSetting goalsMaking progress STAGE

TWOSTAGE TREE

STAGE ONE

STAGE FOUR

Interpersonal Relationships in Group Dynamics

Interpersonal Relationships in Group Dynamics

• It’s not a linear but an ongoing process • Teams can go back on 1st or 2nd step after having

reached Performing-level• There is the need for the guide to help the group

to go forward• Throughout all the stages be aware of the

elements of unconscious behaviour• Be aware of the elements that affect

interpersonal relationship (different perceptions, stressful situations, ego, passion)

CLC is….

A community helps discovering and live one’s personal vocation for common mission

Identity

Vocation

Mission

Relationship of identity, vocation & Mission

Vocation

IdentityMission

In His works

Each one is called and missionThe team members need to be

invited to find God in their mission

As CLC leaders…• Draw community members to initial dream/vision as a

source of energy• Live out & help members to live out Ignatian Spirituality

through community• Commit to our Way of Proceeding (Discern-Send-

Support-Evaluation)• Empower member’s gifts – Cura Personalis• Develop individual roles/job descriptions as a team• Attend to common problems /challenges that affect all

/most members• Use effective leadership styles & tools, including conflict

resolution