[OSList] "Building Self-Management Muscles"

[Christine Whitney Sanchez via OSList]

Nice job, Kevin!  Take a look, everyone...http://www.huffingtonpost.com/great-work-cultures/building-self-management_b_7859320.html <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/great-work-cultures/building-self-management_b_7859320.html>

Yesterday, I had a conversation with one of my long-time clients, the COO of a nonprofit org, who teaches nonprofit management at a couple of universities.  In her organization, they have a team-based culture that supports some self-managed teams and some teams with supervisors, depending on their level of development according to some collectively created criteria.  

She commented that in an organization with a relatively small number of paid staff (70 FTEs, 55 Seasonal Staff, 2,000 volunteers) one of the challenges of self-managed functional teams is how quickly they become silos.  From her perspective, self-managed cross-functional teams tend to spend too much time trying to understand what everyone does - these often don’t feel like teams but more like gaggles of loosely connected colleagues .  

I would love to hear stories from any of you in our global community about successful self-managed teams in nonprofit orgs or in any type of org with under 100 FTEs.

Warm wishes from a toasty Phoenix evening,

Christine

Christine Whitney Sanchez, M.C.
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