TRL Staff Meeting (October 2014)
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October 16, 2014TRL Staff Meeting
Today
• Overview of work to be done
• Break out (2 - 2:35 p)
• Come back & eat (2:40 p in Class of ’55)
• Kim to post ideas in Confluence
Whatever book I’m reading or listening to shapes my thinking.
– Peter M. Senge, 1990
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization
High-performing teams…
Well, more like teams in business or non-profit sectors
We spend a lot of time at work in organizations. For many, the experience is less than ideal.
How can we create organizations (or teams) that enable our collective creativity and motivation to thrive?
Characteristics of Extraordinary Teams
Trust between members
Strengths of some compensate for limitations of others
Shared team goals are larger than individual goals
And they also produce extraordinary results
5 Disciplines
Systems thinking
Personal mastery
Mental models
Building a shared vision
Team learning
…team learning starts with dialogue, the capacity of members of a team to suspend assumptions and enter into a genuine thinking together.
This is your charge for today: !
Qualitatively shift the landscape of Penn Libraries by talking about the things that
matter & finding our own path forward.