Using Art to Create A Safe Place for Dangerous Truths
Annette Simmons of Group Process Consulting in Greensboro, NC, is the author of Territorial Games: Understanding and Ending Turf Wars at Work and A Safe Place for Dangerous Truths: Using Dialogue to Overcome Fear and Distrust at Work both from AMACOM. She draws from the fields of psychology, adult education, group dynamics, and organizational behavior to “build collaborative behaviors for bottom-line results.” She spends half of her time in research and development and the rest writing, speaking, and designing/delivering workshops.
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"Not a Team Player" - Article
NOT A TEAM PLAYER
Abstract
Performance – good, bad, or indifferent – is related to employee emotions. There are few more emotional interactions a boss can have with an employee than a performance review. Since these emotions are predictable why not factor them into your system? Responding to the emotional reactions of an employee validates his/her feelings and keeps those feelings in the loop of your influence as a boss. Ignore their feelings and you leave those feelings to run amuck. Decreasing focus on measurable factors is necessary in order to increase focus on un-measurable but important factors like an employee’s emotional response to the performance evaluation experience and the impact this experience has on the relationship between boss and employee.
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Story, Poetry and Metaphor - Article
Story, Poetry, and Metaphor: Subjective Solutions for Subjective Problems
Annette Simmons (Printed in Reflections Journal, 2003)
Despite a few weak smiles, the senior managers’ faces displayed mostly anxiety or aggression. Their jaws tensed and released. The CEO shook my hand a little too hard...
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