Team development, Part 6: Variations of procedure meetings.
In the last issue of Personnel, Part 5 of our series on team development covered basic procedure meetings. In this issue, Part 6 goes into the team interaction variation and the critique variation of procedure meetings. Author Francis X. Mahoney, personnel development advisor for Exxon Company, U.S.A., notes that in the interaction variation the team looks at its own practices for the purpose of improving them. The session usually begins by identifying the five or six high-scoring items and the five or six low-scoring items in an opinion survey on team effectiveness that is taken before the session is held. The team then spends one session discussing the high-scoring items and at least one on the low-scoring items. During the latter discussion, the team aims to come up with suggestions for changes in techniques and ways to implement these changes.
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