<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi Christine,<br><br></div>I wish I had a success story to share. But alas, all I have to offer is an idea for an experiment :-<br><br><a href="http://www.fast-agile.com/">http://www.fast-agile.com/</a><br><br></div>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.<br><br></div>Sincerely<br></div>Ron Quartel<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Christine Whitney Sanchez via OSList <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Nice job, Kevin!  Take a look, everyone...<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/great-work-cultures/building-self-management_b_7859320.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/great-work-cultures/building-self-management_b_7859320.html</a><div><br></div><div>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.  </div><div><br></div><div>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 .  </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Warm wishes from a toasty Phoenix evening,</div><div><div><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue';font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue';font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">Christine</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue';font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue';font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span><span><span><span><img src="cid:49B94F37-38AB-4484-A073-5818842F4399" height="62" width="162"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue';font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue';font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue';font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">Christine Whitney Sanchez, M.C.</span></span></span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue';font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue';font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue';font-size:13px;font-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