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You can think of open space offices and flame mails, but team conflicts are a little bit older than that: Cain and Abel, you know..? Since that time we learned the lesson: conflicts can destroy a team.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At the present time the concept of team is reshaping itself: open space offices are not for everybody (and, if they are not your cup of tea, they can also affect your performance: good insight about this issue in Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking<\/a> by Susan Cain<\/em>); tons of emails are not for everybody; almost – digital – only relationships (I am currently working also for people that I have never met in person, did it never happen to you too yet?) are not for everybody as well.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless we are still speaking of teams, and a team is supposed to be a group of players forming one side in a competitive game or sport.\u00a0And business is the most competitive sport on this planet<\/strong>. If you don\u2019t find a way to make out a team from a bunch of people, you are going to lose the match.<\/p>\n

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A team is a system of relationships and different personal needs.<\/h2>\n

Without a way to bring together that relationships and needs, the system fall apart: it is the concept of Schismogenesis<\/b>, \u201dthe generation of opposition\u201d a concept developed by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson in the 1930s while studying the Papua New Guinea Iatmul culture.<\/p>\n

Your team and an Iatmul village are a system<\/i>. There are two different ways to destroy it: the Complementary schismogenesis (dominant-submissive behavioural pattern) and Symmetrical schismogenesis (same behavioural pattern, as in the arms race).<\/p>\n

In the passage rite named Naven<\/em>, Iatmul<\/em> people create a context in which the usual roles are \u201cplayed\u201d in the opposite way<\/strong>: male becomes (disguising) female.\u00a0The key of the Naven rite is to allow men and women to experience – in the context – the emotional lives of each other, achieving a psychological integration.<\/p>\n

Finding a way to bring this kind of experience to your team<\/strong> is a good way to keep it not alive, but lively! Programmers and creative designers (but it can be sales and buyers, or sales and logistics, HR and administration…): these are probably the men and women of your \u201cvillage\u201d.<\/p>\n

All of us are under pressure.<\/strong> But finding an opportunity to experience a different pressure, the pressure that \u201cthe other guys\u201d are experiencing, is a great way to improve the team manager<\/strong>: we have the tools, we have the culture, we just have to build up the opportunities. Because a lot of what makes the difference between success and failure in teams is a matter of empathy.<\/p>\n

Think about it next time you are going to share a pizza with a guy of a different department\u2026\u00a0Meanwhile, a\u00a0tool that helps team – working is a good way to keep low the schismogetetic fibrillation level…<\/em><\/p>\n

\"tour-operator-load\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Easing work relationships on a project-by-project basis<\/h2>\n

Twproject is a project management tool<\/a>, and as such it represents work relationships in form of projects, assignments and roles.<\/p>\n

But what it can do better with respect to classical hierarchical and role based modeling is that organizations can be projects – related: the same user can be project manager, worker, stakeholder and tester at the same time on different projects. You can get suggestions in a project you lead, and make suggestions in a project you follow.<\/p>\n

And indeed you can set up projects where the manager \/ execution roles are exactly specular, so that users can compare the two experiences. It is not by chance that Twproject is used as a didactical tool in so many universities<\/a>.<\/p>\n

User and projects can spawn different areas, and you can involve resources from other departments in cross area projects<\/strong>: just in the \u201cNaven\u201d ritual, it\u2019s a matter of point of view!<\/p>\n

This contextual role playing can be a way to experiment and understand problems relative to your position in a project in different cases, just like in the rites above.<\/p>\n

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We have the tools, we have the culture.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Try us for free!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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