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Focus your group on a common vision.
Keep your group on target by avoiding tangents. In a world ruled by distractions, avoiding detours on the way to your objectives can be a significant challenge. Learn to set up a Parking Lot to help keep your group on course while still respecting and capturing good ideas that are outside the scope of your current agenda.
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Contain group energy within operating norms. Convert talk into action, decisions into deeds.
Participants become disillusioned and tune out if this becomes the norm. You can become a catalyst for decision-making and action in your groups through the language you use, the energy you bring, and the action you model for others. In It, Not of It. Avoid groupthink and access group mind —the way to enlightened decisions.
Being a member of a highly functional team can be a fulfilling experience, and a challenge as well. This tendency, if unchecked, can do a great deal of harm to not only your group, but also to the victims of the actions your group takes. Understand the symptoms and remedies of groupthink and practices you can use to access group mind, the collective conscience of your group. The whole point of bringing a group of people together is to get them to collectively contribute something in a collaborative fashion.
Ideally this process yields something more than what would have been accomplished by the individuals working alone. Fully participating, group members will tend to more fully support decisions made, offer access to the collective wisdom and experience of the group, and avoid the possibility of groupthink.
As a participant, learn strategies to suggest to your group to assure full participation is achieved. Transform conflict into a spirit of collaboration. Healthy conflict is an essential ingredient for group collaboration. Unhealthy conflict, that is conflict that involves a winner and a loser, should be avoided. Adopt an attitude that any fight you engage in or witness in a group must be a fight to win—to a win that benefits all concerned. Action What is your experience facilitating a group as a participant? Please share your questions, feedback, or experience on this topic below. And click here for many more meeting resources to help heal your meetings.
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