Concept posters

A few concept posters created to help frame principles around a leadership development workshop.

Models are simply lenses for understanding something that is fundamentally complex and ambiguous: human behavior.

Leadership development is about practicing behaviors and techniques in a safe environment so that when real interpersonal dynamics come in to play, participants recognize them for what they are and know how to deal with them objectively.

One's "reality" is simply their unique perspective. Any situation is like a beachball: based on where I'm standing, the beachball may appear yellow to me. Another person might look at the same beachball and see it as red. My senses and my experience tell me that beachball is yellow, but this other person is saying it's red, therefore I'm right and he's wrong. Instead, allow for the possibility that we may BOTH be right: open yourself up to the context of the bigger picture.

Lencioni's 5 Dysfunctions of a Team is another lens to understand the interpersonal dynamics of a team, and where exactly a team may have weaknesses.

The ladder of influence is another model to understand how different perspectives and mental models may form and reinforce themselves.

The Team Effectiveness Model looks at factors of Context and Condition to impact Outcome.

The Tuckman Stages of Team Development is a fundamental model for understanding team dynamics.