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Team Mirroring
Illusions and Realities of Team Dynamics and Development

Marlene Rodenbaugh, PhD./Gary Gemmill, PhD.
$22.95

The vitality and performance of a team can be greatly enhanced if team members learn to embrace what they most want to avoid—the evolving emotions generated within and between teams as they think and feel together. As our diverse values, beliefs, and opinions rub up against each other in teamwork, we need to learn to tolerate the frustration of uncertainty and ambiguity, embrace our differences, to talk through issues without avoiding feelings, fearing conflict, laying blame, taking sides and hiding our very meaning. But we need new skills to help us work with the 'touchy-feely', the 'soft skills' that are really the hard skills driving the team's real world performance.

Written by leaders in group dynamics and business, this book looks at an innovative way that anyone who is part of a team can better understand the emotional dynamics of teamwork. The team mirror serves as a tool for seeing and reflecting the truth and the distortion, the teams' fantasies and realities, the negatively and positively charges attributes we give to other teams and team members because we are having difficulty seeing and discussing them in ourselves. The team mirroring process described in this book is a simple way to bring into focus and discuss those emotions associated with teamwork that we have traditionally avoided because they were threatening as well as difficult to experience and express. Learning this simple process can assist us in team learning to identify and express powerful emotions, the driving passions that give meaning to teamwork and organizational life.

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