An exercise to get your team to open up

The real work that shifts the dynamics in a group happens when you take time to talk about what’s really going on in the team. If you simply ask people, “What’s really going on?”, they often feign ignorance, or look away, or become fearful of what might be said if the team talks about what’s really going on. But they all do have a view on what’s really going on. So how can you draw that out and discuss it?

Dynamics are present in every human group team, family, or organization. Yet, surprisingly, the dynamics of management teams can be similar to other groups and teams or even families. For example, people take up roles in a team, and start to fall into predictable behaviors just as family members tend to do.…