TEAM DIFFERENTLY
Team Differently | Visionary Organizing for Professional and Organizational Development is an introduction to the theory and practice of Visionary Organizing as it applies to organizations. Team Differently is an interactive training toward a more healthy team and work environment that teaches a team to equally emphasize material and non-material needs through systematic engagement with team members, their understanding of the organization’s purpose, and their purpose within the organization/team. This engagement is created through journaling, personal reflections, small and large group discussions, and relationship building.Teams will be able to assume shared responsibility for the well-being of the organization and personal accountability for their role(s) within the team, while developing a deeper sense of the org’s purpose and the value of their work.
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Workplaces and organizations with defined roles and division of labor for whom conversations about oppression do not evoke existential crisis.
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Skills to balance team member’s material and non-material needs
Provides sense of importance for individual team members
Mutual respect between team members
Ability to identify one’s own role in conflict
Shared understanding of org’s work and each person’s personal purpose within the organization
Shared understanding of individual contribution to the org’s work
Improved communication to resolve conflicts
Understanding of how and where individual team members and the organization have internalized oppressive values (take the next training for more on what to do with this)