HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: The Linkage Leader
Competencies: team building, trust
Who benefits: those who participate in teams, those with trust issues
Consultant Usage: must read for team consultants and facilitators; organizational development consultants dealing with issues of thrust, career counselors
What’s it about? I have written favorably in the past about Linkage, Inc. and their training programs. What I didn’t realize until recently is that they have a reasonably decent monthly online newsletter. I say “reasonably decent” because the articles tend to be too short and one comes away wanting more.
However, I suspect that, that is exactly the purpose. Teaser articles to get you to sign up for up-coming events. That said, the quality of the articles are quite good. In their February issue I saw the name Geoff Bellman and that got my attention. I have met Geoff on several occasions and have read his earlier books. Call me a fan.
His article, co-written by Kathleen Ryan, focuses on “extraordinary groups”. I love their writing style and feel their emotion when they discuss fantastic groups making magic. Officially they define an extraordinary group as “one which achieves outstanding results while members—individually and/or collectively—experience a profound shift in how they see their world.” The key words being “results” and “shift”. They offer eight key indicators.
It is a 3-page article and if you have any interest in teams at all I urge you to read it. If that excites you, they have a new (09/09) book called Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results. I am putting that book on my reading list.
There was another article from the February issue that interested me. The article, “Employee Engagement: Drive Organizational Effectiveness by Building Trust“, focuses on a competency we don’t often think about: Trust. Trust is one of those personal issues I wrestle with. Rightly or wrongly I have felt “burned” by past employers, bosses, colleagues and it definitely something I need to pay more attention to. If you share similar feelings, check out the article.
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Catch you later.
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