Foundation step workshop

Motivation

„The most important predictor of a team’s success is its communication patterns. Those patterns are as significant as all other factors — intelligence, personality, talent — combined.” Alex Sandy Pentland, MIT’s Human Dynamics Laboratory. The New Science of Building Great Teams

Objective

Increase overall team performance.

Means

Create a positive team culture, embrace personal differences, improve individual skills, understand team roles and build trust. Develop team cohesion and encourage individual and group development.

Theoretical background

Group decision making
Group dynamics
Voting procedures
Argumentation framework
Cooperation, game theory
Negotiation techniques
Persuasion techniques
Ontology fundamentals and communication
Information seeking & providing
Abstraction, modelling
System 1&2
Social perception

Format

Weekly workshops focused on hands-on activities. The aim is to develop individual and team skills through real practice of the theoretical concepts..