Purpose of exercise

To foster openness to learning as a team and reflection upon our team's success in this field, as well as the challenges we face

Context

Best for Multiple teams, rather than for a single team as we want to encourage reflection upon team processes.

What to do

Step 1:

• Break teams up into small mixed groups of 3-4 workers (drawn from separate teams)
• Discuss: What are the markers that would show learning is happening in a team?

Step 2:

• Reconstitute as whole teams:
• Discuss: Where is the evidence for these things happening in your team, and where would you wish to strengthen things in this respect?

Step 3:

• Plenary discussion
• From Pretend mode ("We know it all!") to Mentalization
• Creating dialogue about real issues (Discussion/Percussion/Concussion Vs. Dialogue - see Senge: Discipline 5 - Team Learning)
• Creating shared mental models (see Senge: Discipline 3 - Mental Models)
• Avoiding "Organisational amnesia" - the need for a log of learning (Manualization)