The value of a team lies in what it has not yet accomplished The work we do together, the team work, ought to have such import – meaning and purpose – that we are driven to design, monitor, maintain and modify the team environment with… Read More »The Empty Cup of the Team Environment
creativity/ˌkriːeɪˈtɪvɪti/nounthe use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness. Oxford Languages Great ideas are not developed in isolation – we need teams with high creative agility, where each of us plays a role in creating the next iteration of a good idea until… Read More »Increasing Creative Agility of Teams
In previous blogs, we’ve talked about how important Psychological Safety is to Team Transcendence. (If you have issues with the term Psychological Safety, just insert the words “respect and belonging” whenever that phrase comes up.) We’ve shown how Team Transcendence requires Psychological Safety for all… Read More »Measuring Psychological Safety: Tune Into Your Body
It strikes me as though we in business know little about the importance of teams. I can’t believe I just wrote those words. Don’t get me wrong, I recognize that the business literature and language pays much homage to team, teamwork and team members. The… Read More »Invest and Commit to Your Team: It Takes More Than Just Lip Service
I think it is safe to assume that if you are reading this blog you are familiar with what Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi called “flow”. When experienced by an individual, “flow” can be a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity. When groups of individuals in the flow… Read More »The Global Pandemic: A Great Opportunity for Team Transcendence
In teams, team members actually become psychologically and physiologically linked to the other members of the group and this is key to understanding and facilitating group genius.
The convergence of knowledge about human behavior and human potential from the fields of neurobiology, biotechnology, psychology, physiology and organizational development, is creating a path for fine tuning of individual performance states.
Tapping into group genius while working remote is absolutely critical to our shared future. With currently available technology, we can easily recreate some of the ideal conditions for group genius in virtual environments, but there are challenges to recreating others.
In collaboration with the Center for Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP) and Dr. Bruce Smith of the University of New Mexico, Transcendeam created a Positive Psychology Challenge with special emphasis on “resilience” and “flourishing”.
Positive Psychology is the foundation for becoming the kind of person who consistently has extraordinary team interactions.