TEAM MIRRORING Illusions and Realities of Team Dynamics and Development
Team Mirroring is a powerful tool for understanding and managing the emotional dynamics of teamwork By better understanding the interpersonal relationships associated with teams, you can hone your abilities to communicate your own emotions along with accurately reading the emotions of teammates--thus minimizing falling into patterns of destructive competitiveness, unhealthy conflict, and unproductive hostility that may derail the team's work.
In this book, the concepts of team mirroring are developed using real world scenarios fo working teams and how they made the technique work to improve their performance. What better way to see concepts than with pragmatic images?
The Team Mirroring process is an opportunity to constructively expand beyond the ordinary demands of the team. It can revolutionize the way you approach the barriers to thinking and working together in an aware and mindful way--and it can be a fun way to learn.
Marlene Rodenbaugh has a personal mission of life long learning, recently earning a PHD in Management and Decision Sciences. In her 20 years as a marketing executive with Johnson & Johnson, and as the founder of a successful database marketing company with Fortune 100 clients, she recognized that technical expertise and strategic thinking were not enough to lead in a business environment--that these exigencies so strongly associated with effective leadership have no power without emotions. Yet emotions are dismissed in organizational life or seen as minefields to be avoided at all costs. As a consultant and scholar, Dr. Rodenbaugh works with clients and students in understanding how the weaving of emotionally-based relationships can have a profound influence on the bottom line. She is the President of HANDLEY Group, Inc., a consulting firm focused on leadership and development and team dynamics.
Dr.Gary Gemmill, Professor Emeritus of Organizational Behavior, School of Managment, Syracuse University, has over 35 years experience in organizational behavior and leadership studies. His extensive research and writings challenge the old paradigm of "leaders" in "command and control" of their organizations, and provide the scientic foundation for breakthrough leadership development. Dr. Gemmill's approach is grounded in experience--his ideas grow our of his consultancy in real work cases, group process facilitaiton and consultation, and executive personal growth retreats. He is widely published in the field of management and group relations.
