Posts Tagged ‘group dynamics’

Team Trap #5: Withholding Information

January 5th, 2011

I’m not talking about information related to the task and context, here, though that can damage a team. Withholding that sort of information is unacceptable, and probably pathological. I’m talking about a different sort of information: information about your internal state . Let me tell you a story about a team I coached. They’d asked

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Dealing with “Difficult” Co-workers

November 26th, 2010

We all have coworkers who rub us the wrong way, get on our nerves, and generally drive us crazy. Let’s consider these examples of three people who have difficult coworkers: 1. Ted finished working on a difficult bit of code and headed for the team meeting. When he got there, Sandy looked at her watch

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Held Hostage by a Prima Donna

September 13th, 2010

What to do when your (so-called) MVP is destroying team productivity. Luke, the manager of the Rev 2.0 team, was walking on eggshells. He’d had another blow up with Shelly, the team architect. He tried to talk to her about the way she had treated the newest employee, Brent, in the design review meeting on

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