This takes people in the group to visualize beyond their subject matter expertise and facilitate integration of different subjects in order to align with project requirements and deliver an outcome which adds business value.
On the contrary, group within the group is formed and each group works with their own agenda in the meeting. Further, messaging and whatsapp applications are used to influence people during the meeting in order to steer the meeting the way each group wants it leading more disruption and lacking focus of the issue and finally concluding in a vague manner with final agenda of "pointing finger" or saying "you were present in the meeting" rather than taking ownership to the result of the meeting. Saving Changes...
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Stéphane ParentSelf Employed / Semi-retired| Leader MakerPrince Edward Island, Canada
My suggestion is to ask the team members for feedback then give them the opportunity to act upon their feedback.
At first they might focus on what they do but eventually they will get interested in other people's work and how they can contribute. Saving Changes...
Generally, have agenda shared to all users well in advance. Make sure some ground rules are set so that we could try to avoid people using other unnecessary apps during meeting, Pickup speakers for the meeting and have some knowledge sharing / key achievements sessions from what they have done, also lessons learnt. All these depends on type of meeting conducted, accordingly organize them. You could finally conclude the meeting with outcome and send the same through MOM. Your MOM could list out action point and responsible person as discussed in your meeting. Also ensure you organize in such a way meeting lasts only 60 - 90 mins at the max. Not more than this. Try to keep it short and not over crowded. Saving Changes...
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Our project is one of the International Development Solutions which is also one of the interest towards building relations and breaking barriers to solve all kinds of solutions in the world in accordance with the messages and research papers posted at www.goldenduas.com and the same may be connected with Cloud computing by PM and its all the members in the interest of International development. Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
As you wrote, you have a group but not a team. If you are the leader you have to demostrate that you are in charge with your acts. Here you have to pay attention to culture (organizational and non organizational). I can write a lot but which worked for me is to speed with true and candor but as strong as I can. Saving Changes...
Thanks for your input. Whenever i made an attempt to communicate the point of view to certain members of the group, in general, such attempts were warded off saying that " we will not listen to you" probably it was felt that "i was trying to dominate".
Subsequently, the interaction was restricted by myself as it was not taken in a positive manner. Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
If you are the leader or head of the group (is not the same) you have to dominate. Please do not misunderstood, I follow "Servant Leadership" as my method but each person is a world so with some person you need to demostrate you are the dominant role. It is not acceptable that somebody said "we will not listen to you". No matter the role, everybody must listen to everybody. Well, I have faced situations like that. Unfortunatelly, the method to use depends on a lot of factors where culture and stakeholders characteristic is a must. See the movie "To sir, with love". Saving Changes...
Robert StarinskyManagement Consultant| Tradewinds Group, Inc.Oak Brook, Il, United States
Dr. Deming first described the need to view the organization as a system (aka systems thinking) in 1950. This model ultimately evolved into his 'system of profound knowledge', a management theory that drives continuous improvement in an organization. It is also the basis of the S-I-P-O-C (Supplier Input Process Output Customer) approach to modeling an organizations' processes beginning at the highest level and drilling down to the lowest level.
The opposite of an organization as a system, is an organization of silos, all perhaps performing their own tasks well individually, but perhaps not performing to the needs or expectations as a part of the larger overall, interconnected system (aka the overall organization).
Systems thinking can help you lead an organization out of the abyss (aka the organization as a series of functional silos). It's not about internal cooperation, rather its' about cooperation and collaboration, learning how each part of the organization fits into the overall organizational model (aka system).
One of the reasons I like the SIPOC modeling approach is the drill-down that occurs, leading to interaction and determination of finding out how one part of the organization is a supplier to another part of organization (an internal customer) and so forth, until all linkages are exposed.
Once the linkages (interdependencies) are exposed, you can then attack and break down the current boundaries that exist between the silos.
Balaji, I can understand the problem now. It looks like power imbalance or org-culture by itself. Later part is very difficult to correct, unless you have high power or authority to play. You may have a look here, we as a PM always trying to overcome issues like these - please check if helps.
Hello Balaji, I would agree with Sergio, Robert and Sandilyan. Seems like multiple issues leading to team/ group management. If you are leading a group/ team you have to show leadership skills not necessarily a bossy one, but a dominant one. Similar to a PM, who is authorized by a Project Charter to run the project, your role as a group leader has to be documented in some form or the other.
I would also set some standards of communicating during group discussions, however also would make things open as an example ensure the agenda is clear and published before meetings.
Also important is to know the team members, culture plays a great role in how each one of us behave. so if you are managing multi cultural group, then be sure to check your communication techniques so that no one is offended.
Hope you are able to address this soon Saving Changes...
