EXTRAORDINARY GROUPS : How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results with Kathleen Ryan

EXTRAORDINARY GROUPS:How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results

withKathleen Ryan

1c. Bellman and Ryan, 2009

Tonight

• Your own experience with an amazing group

• Key concepts from our field study

• Application of concepts to your role as a leader of teams


Starting Questions

Why do some groups achieve amazing results while most others do not?

What do extraordinary groups have in common that sorts them from the rest?

How might we create these terrific results more often?


What’s Your Experience?

Think of an amazing group experience you have had.

Identify three things that enabled that experience to be so memorable.


Our Field Study

Sixty groups of 2-20, incl. virtual Work, volunteer, personal life Self-identified as “amazing” Interviews with 1-3 members 1.5 to 2 hour phone interviews Open ended questions and stories


An Extraordinary Group…

Achieves outstanding results while members, individually or collectively experience a profound shift in how they see their world.


Exercise

Find a partner…someone at your table you know least well

Briefly describe the essence of your experience (2-3 sentences)

Discuss your answers to card #1. What factors do you have in common?


Eight Performance Indicators

1. Compelling Purpose

2. Shared Leadership

3. Just-Enough Structure

4. Full Engagement

5. Embracing Difference

6. Unexpected Learning

7. Strengthened Relationships

8. Great Results


Tangible Results 200 lives saved

through reduction of medical errors

Award winning library built

Breakthrough software developed

Micro-credit extended to 100M of the world’s poorest families

Millions $$$ saved Market share

dominated Championships won by

teams of “not brilliant” players

WMD facilities dismantled and equipment safely moved across continents


Intangible Results

Learned about one’s self Gained or deepened knowledge/skills Applied to other parts of life Built new or strengthened relationships Increased pride of accomplishment Heightened self confidence Greater sense of community


Groups in Human History

Thousands of years of living in groups Survive together, perish alone Genetically, instinctively informed to

group It’s easy to relate to a group; it’s hard to

relate to a large organization Groups are the way to get things done


Table Discussion

What organizational benefits would you anticipate from creating more extraordinary groups… At work? In your community groups? In your family? Within TENS?


High Performance Levers for Extraordinary Groups

Just-Enough Structure

Compelling Purpose

Shared Leadership

Embracing Differences

Full Engagement

Unexpected Learning

Strengthened Relationships

Great Results


High Performance Levers for Extraordinary Groups

c. Bellman and Ryan, 2009

Just-Enough Structure

Compelling Purpose

Shared Leadership

Embracing Differences

Full Engagement

Unexpected Learning

Strengthened Relationships

Great Results

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Four Feelings at the Heart of Transformation

Energized !

Connected !

Hopeful !

Changed !


An Extraordinary Group…

Achieves outstanding results while members, individually or collectively experience a profound shift in how they see their world.


Application Think of a group you lead on a regular basis. The next time you bring your group together,

how might you lead this group differently if you intentionally applied: Compelling Purpose Shared Leadership Embracing Differences Just-enough Structure

What one thing will you do?


The Bottom Line

Especially during challenging times:– Our organizations need our best, most creative

and collaborative work– We, as people, need our groups to be the place

where we can contribute, achieve, connect, and grow.

Life is too short to spend time in groups that do not fulfill their promise.


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EXTRAORDINARY GROUPS : How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results with Kathleen Ryan