[OSList] "Building Self-Management Muscles"

[Ron Quartel via OSList]

Hi Christine,

I wish I had a success story to share. But alas, all I have to offer is an
idea for an experiment :-

http://www.fast-agile.com/

It is an agile methodology that I think could solve the issues that you
describe. FAST Agile is built on a variation of Open Space Technology. I
invented it, so if you have any questions or want to know more please let
me know.

Sincerely
Ron Quartel


On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Christine Whitney Sanchez via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Nice job, Kevin!  Take a look, everyone...
> 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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