The Well-Designed Teamcreating and sustaining momentum

Sarah B. Nelson | MX 2015@sarahbeee

creative team

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creating energy & sustaining momentum

Read your team’s energyChoose an effective response

todayWork with emotional & creative energyExplore it in uncommon waysUncover patterns and trapsSoul-satisfying ways to work with your teamBring it back to you and your team

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tool: alliancewhat climate do we want to create together?

what fuels a creative team?

fuelsstrong purposeconnection with othersdiversitynew informationfeeling of impactfreedom of what and how

drainsunclear purposetoxic behaviorsuniformitystagnationno feeling of impactrestrictive processes

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obsessed design

collaborativecreativity

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mind body spirit

The Well-Designed Teama mindset and a system designed to take the mystery out of team dynamics and make creative work work

The Well-Designed Team

system

systemInception, Birth, StartupCreating Energy and Sustaining MomentumStorms, Messes, and The ShitChanges, Uncertainty, and DisruptionFlow and PerformanceMaintenance and PracticeDissolution, Endings, and New Beginnings

The Well-Designed Team

mindset

mind body spirit

clouds & clocks

fascination

who knows what is good and what is bad?

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Teams a living entity, more than a collection of individuals.

Exquisite Corpse Series, Jake Chapman

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emotional climate reference tool

activity1. Design your alliance2. Review your scenario and

complete the worksheet3. Brainstorm interventions4. Create a poster together

tool: alliancewhat environment do we want to create together?

scenarioA team constantly nitpicks each other. They get in lost in what feels like trivial details — engaging in endless semantic debates, disagreeing about which tools to use, constantly correcting and one-upping each other.

What is the emotional climate?

What metaphors, images, or colors might you use to describe the emotional climate?

scenarioA team constantly nitpicks each other. They get in lost in what feels like trivial details — engaging in endless semantic debates, disagreeing about which tools to use, constantly correcting and one-upping each other.

Why it might be positiveThis might be norming: defining terms and building trust. 

Why it might be a problemThis might mask some deeper trust issues and could become toxic if it lasts too long.

tool: antidoteshow can you take advantage of emotional contagion to either amplify or shift the environment

scenarioA team constantly nitpicks each other. They get in lost in what feels like trivial details — engaging in endless semantic debates, disagreeing about which tools to use, constantly correcting and one-upping each other.

What interventions might you make?

activity1. Design your alliance2. Review your scenario and

complete the worksheet3. Brainstorm interventions4. Create a poster together

The Well-Designed Team

tools

toolssensing & specifyingemotional antidotesalliancehi/lo dreams2% truth

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tool: sensing & specifying

tool: antidotesuse emotional contagion to either amplify or shift the climate

tool: alliancewhat climate do we want to create together?

tool: hi/lo dreamswhat is your highest hope?what is your worst fear?which are you closest too right now?

tool: 2% truthwhat is the smallest true thing you can discover in this situation?

creative team

developmentwww.radicallyhuman.com

creative leadership developmentwww.radicalvisionary.com

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