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Communication Project

Part 1 – Self Deception Explained

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October 30, 2020 – First Meeting with team

I was so excited to share the concepts of the book, Leadership and Self-Deception to my team this week! Everyone who attended completed the reading assignment and we had a great discussion of what self-deception is. I created a PowerPoint to highlight quotes, scenarios, stories and issued a challenge at the end. For example, this slide I created was intended to incorporate the definition of self-deception into real life scenarios:

The majority of the team in attendance made comments and shared scenarios from work. One team member made the comment that this topic was very personal and we had the discussion this went beyond just work situations.

I wanted to really emphasis this concept from Chapter 4;

We had great conversations about the effects of not speaking with sincerity even in a work environment, that we will never be able to completely trust our team members without it.

Finally, we talked about our own plane experiences similar to Bud’s and I shared the diagram of the “Box” from the book. I was very happy people were beginning to relate their own feelings about giving up their seats.

This concluded our training, but I followed up by sending the reading assignment for Part 2 as well as the following challenge:

I am looking forward to November 13th training to see if people will share their experiences of identifying the “Box”!

Please click here to see the entire PowerPoint presentation: https://navex-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/mpoole_navexglobal_com/EejQ0fLrnzJPn5Tr1AfxLkQBGGVepvgwWQUj9LwdiH6fwg?e=8Q3pTs

Communication Project

Group Improvement In Action

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Group Training – October 9, 2020

I had the opportunity to work with my manager to help reinforce his goals of improving my team’s dynamics. My manager introduced to the book, The Five Dysfunctions of of a Team by Patrick Lencioni at the beginning of the year to my team. Together, we identified “Absence of Trust”, and “Fear of Conflict” as areas we, as a team, needed to improve.

I wanted to help build trust within my team and knew the principles in the book, Leadership and Self-Deception; Getting Out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute would give me the tools internally to do so. The main principle in the book is seeing others as objects and not as people, is explained as being “in the box” and can damage trust between team members. This book teaches us to be aware of how we treat others. I knew it would be beneficial for all on my team to read and discuss these ideas.

I had the chance to introduce the book in a team training on October 9th including a short video from The Arbinger Institute. I outlined we would have three additional trainings concluding with a survey right before Thanksgiving. I did ask all read Part 1 preparing to discuss on October 30th. Overall, I was very pleased with the positive response after the training and the willingness to participate!