Keep your new leadership

It is a mystery to the address, if you lead a team or be a single group. This mystery is important because without it people is able to predict their actions and to imitate them. Keep the mystery means that things stay fresh. Here are 5 ways you can inject all labor cases group with the unpredictable.

1. Learn gradually. The challenges of facilitating their joy are aware that sometimes works and sometimes not, knowing that each session is a learning experience for both you and the group remained open to possibilities that may surprise and disappoint.

• Keep your day job cool group. From time to time change the way of doing things.
• take risks with materials and see what happens
• Have confidence in your side throughout group work intuitively
• Keep an eye on matters of everyday life: home, family, social life
• be a continuous student
• be children in the curious
• The goal for his natural style to come through
• to take advantage of every experience of group work.

2. Lighten up. Adding perspective and a touch of lightness to the whole group work experience can defend against the enemies of Facilitation: taking too seriously forcing things and trying too hard.

Illuminates only a certain number of things:
• He recalls that the role of aid is essentially a sense common wisdom, intellectual knowledge is not
• It helps you not to take too seriously
• This reflects the new approach is the hallmark of the facilitation
• Contributes to bad experiences to the experience
• We can accept the value of all types of human behavior, including clowns and fun.

"The first thing most people say that when they get to heaven is" why was so serious? "." (Old Red Indian saying)

3. Be open to surprises. The "I've been everywhere, done-everything" attitude of some leaders with experience not only leads to loss of freshness in The working group also miss the pleasure of being surprised in life.

• Do not assume anything about teamwork
• retain a childlike wonder about the opportunities around you
• have respect for each session of group work as a unique event in itself
• Do not become obsolete in sticking to routines
• be willing to learn, take risks and to waive all their plans if the moment requires.

"It is extremely important that a man must be caught in everyday life: it is not related to the habit or tired, still have sense of wonder in his life and the life and words, gestures and images of others. Always be ready for anything. "(Joseph Zinker)

4. Do not take anything for granted. Facilitation is a leadership style group, which aims to empower people ducts. Direct No: does not prescribe, do not you ask, does not work, the solutions. It generates a healthy skepticism.

"Think not you heard, do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down from generation to generation, believe in nothing, because It is rumored and spoken by many, I think that just because a written statement of some old sage is produced, do not believe in conjectures; not believe in that truth which you have become attached by habit not made by the authority of your teachers and elders. After observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason and is conducive to sprout and around the world then accept, practice and live high. "(Buddha 568-488BC)

5. Process rather than results. One of the most valuable lessons of the approach allows work group is focusing on the value of the process, not results. In groups of control and manipulate the groups, the group leader wants people to find solutions and answers available. Everything else is "off script." But rushing to pre-ordained objectives have no value for people. The wisdom, fun and creativity are the journey, not the destination.

"Honey is not as good taste, once consumed, the goal does not mean much, once reached, the reward is not very rewarding once it has been … This does not mean that the goals do not count. They do, mostly because they make us go through the process, and that the process that makes us wise, happy or whatever. If we do things in the wrong kind of way that makes us unhappy, angry, confused and so forth. The aim should be good for us and should be beneficial to ensure a beneficial process. But beyond that, is actually the process is important. The enjoyment of this process is the secret that erases the myth of the great reward … (Benjamin Hoff: "The Tao of Pooh")

© Eric Garner, 2009 ManageTrainLearn.com

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