Reliability engineers, systems engineers, and other technically trained professionals often support big decisions. Big decisions involve high levels of complexity and uncertainty, Decision makers are driven to seek the advice of an inner circle. Team dynamics overpower individual preferences. The second S in the FINESSE fishbone diagram stands for Synergy. These three tips and a three-minute video will help you improve Synergy.
Three Reasons Group Effects Dominate Team Dynamics
These six strategies and techniques help you identify and mitigate group effects in complex and uncertain team environments. The results are better collaboration, improved relationships between participants, and better solutions that are created, understood, and accepted by all. Synergy requires overcoming the group effects that can dominate team dynamics.
Three Reasons Group Effects Dominate Team Dynamics
How to Mitigate Poor Team Dynamics
Team performance can exceed individual effort. Yes, in groups, two plus two can equal five. But two plus two can also equal three. These are three group effects and what you can do about them.
My Three Favorite Group Effects and How to Mitigate Poor Team Dynamics
Storming, Norming, and Performing to Group Synergy
Groups go through different stages as they develop, and it’s important to understand where a team stands in its maturity spectrum to communicate effectively. Three common models can help us understand these stages. One thing we do know for certain is that group dynamics matter much more than individual behaviors when it comes to big decisions.
Storming, Norming, and Performing to Group Synergy
Check Out the Video
We provide the foundations of Synergy in this 3-minute video.
The Second S in FINESSE Creates Effective Communication
The second S in the FINESSE fishbone diagram stands for Synergy. Big decisions with high levels of complexity require decision makers to seek the advice of an inner circle. Team dynamics overpower individual preferences. These three tips and three-minute video help improve Synergy.
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JD Solomon is the founder of JD Solomon, Inc., the creator of the FINESSE fishbone diagram®, and the co-creator of the SOAP criticality method©. He is the author of Communicating Reliability, Risk & Resiliency to Decision Makers: How to Get Your Boss’s Boss to Understand and Facilitating with FINESSE: A Guide to Successful Business Solutions.
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