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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Christine, I did have to chuckle. You said: “....some teams with supervisors, depending on their level of development according to some collectively created criteria.” I couldn’t help but wonder. “Who’s development?” Would that be the “teams” or the “supervisors” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Some years ago, one V.S. Mahesh – VP for Human Resources at the Taj Hotel Group, a part of the TATA family of businesses... with literally 1000’s of employees in all sorts of groups. For the record, Taj Hotels are known worldwide for superb service, even today, and I believe a large part of that is due to Mahesh. Anyhow, in an off comment, he said to me, “You know Harrison, all teams, work groups, call them what you may... are essentially self managed. Even under ideal circumstances something like 99.99% of client interactions take place outside of any possible supervision. That being the case, a “good” supervisor is one who enables people to work effectively in their “normal” situation – without any supervision.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Might it be that self management is the norm, albeit the conventional wisdom clearly has a different opinion...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harrison<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Winter Address<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>7808 River Falls Drive<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Potomac, MD 20854<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>301-365-2093<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Summer Address<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>189 Beaucaire Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Camden, ME 04843<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>207-763-3261<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Websites<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="%20www.openspaceworld.com"> www.openspaceworld.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="www.ho-image.com">www.ho-image.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>OSLIST </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Christine Whitney Sanchez via OSList<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 23, 2015 11:23 PM<br><b>To:</b> Open Space List<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSList] "Building Self-Management Muscles"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nice job, Kevin! Take a look, everyone...<a href="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</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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 . <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Warm wishes from a toasty Phoenix evening,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif";color:black'><br>Christine<br><img border=0 width=162 height=62 id="_x0000_i1029" src="cid:image001.png@01D0C5F7.64A0D400"><br>Christine Whitney Sanchez, M.C.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif";color:black'>Phoenix, AZ, USA • +1.480.759.0262<br><a href="http://www.innovationpartners.com">www.innovationpartners.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.christinewhitneysanchez.com">www.christinewhitneysanchez.com</a><br> <br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ChristineWhitneySanchez">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinewhitneysanchez">LinkedIn</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/CWhitneySanchez">Twitter </a><br style='orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>