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Leadership Can Be Learned, Gilmore Crosby’s new book, is out!

The following is excerpted with permission: Introduction Despite all that has been written on the subject, the premise of this book is that leadership is poorly understood because human systems are poorly under- stood. Like the paradigms of old, which … Continue reading

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Tuckman – Navigating His Stages: Leading Groups from Forming to High Performing Post #6 (Final)

Continued from an earlier blog entry: Stage Four – High Performance/Self Renewing Activities High Performance is not a given, but if you have followed the path we have outlined thus far, it is likely. By successfully influencing your group dynamics … Continue reading

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Navigating Tuckman’s Stages: Leading Groups from Forming to High Performing Post #5

Continued from an earlier blog entry: Stage Three – Active Norming As an active leader, if you have followed our guidance, you have already established “norms” by now of inclusion, dispersed participation, and of calmly and intentionally surfacing differences. There … Continue reading

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Navigating Tuckman’s Stages: Leading Groups from Forming to High Performing Post #4

Continued from an earlier blog entry: Stage Two – Constructive Storming/Managing Differences As mentioned, storming, while a handy word because it rhymes, tends to evoke unfortunate images of dramatic conflict. We’ve witnessed faculty in a graduate program actually get upset … Continue reading

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Navigating Tuckman’s Stages: Leading Groups from Forming to High Performing post #3

Continued from an earlier blog entry: Dispersed Participation Dispersed participation means tapping into the minds of all who are in the meeting and encouraging that they become engaged. It is living the value of wanting everyone’s opinion and knowing that … Continue reading

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Navigating Tuckman’s Stages: Leading Groups from Forming to High Performing post #2

Continued from an earlier blog entry: Stage One – Inclusive Forming Even if you all know each other you still must form as a group. There is no skipping stage one, though of course if you’ve worked together often and … Continue reading

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Navigating Tuckman’s Stages: Leading Your Group from Forming to High Performing

I just wrote this with the help of my father and brother (Chris). It’s rather long so I’m going to post it as a series of blog entries. Tell me what you think! – Gil Crosby Tuckman’s model of group … Continue reading

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