WLP121_Building Teams and Diagnosing Organisations

Pilar talks to Paul Thoresen about developing teams, trust, and using surveys in organisations.  Visit www.virtualnotdistant.com for information on our training, coaching and consultancy services.  Paul on Twitter https://twitter.com/surveyguy2 Paul on Medium https://medium.com/@SurveyGuy2

Paul talks about what he learned during his attendance to the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology' conference in Orlando. http://www.siop.org/conferences/17con/

• The importance of change management for organisational psychology professionals, most of what we introduce in organisations is going to involve change.

• Experimenting vs piloting; they're different things.

Look for Episode 9 of the Evidence Talks podcast with Paul http://www.futureworkcentre.com/what-we-do/education/evidencetalks/

• There's a lot of research at the moment around teams. Paul recommends us to check out the work of Suzanne Bell https://twitter.com/TeamsLab

Teams and groups; not everyone forms a team and that's ok!

Sentiment analysis.

• The importance of propensity to trust and swift trust.

(Check out episode 117 in this podcast, A Question of Trust and the blog post https://virtualteamtalk.com/2016/11/05/trust-in-teams-1/ )

How we can show we have integrity, competence and benevolent in virtual teams?

Paul mentions this article from Science for Work:

Teams Going Virtual: Why Focusing on Trust Matters http://scienceforwork.com/blog/virtual-teams-trust/

• Paul explains the Rocket Model. http://www.therocketmodel.com/

To create strong teams, you need the processes around it.

Dissecting the team.

• Using surveys in organisations. "Survey readiness checklist"

• Dialogic OD

• Paul's work. Social media as a support mechanism for freelancers.

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