This set of slides is part of CDLMGB Series #1 CEO workshops in 2014. The slides address the outline of Emotional Intelligence (EI) and the importance of understanding of EI application in executive teamworking. The Emotional aspects of team conversations, tacit knowledge, trust building,...

During their academic career many students are encouraged to work in groups on their assignments. Similarly, in the workplace there has been a rise in the use of teamwork (Haskins, 1998:74, Senge, 1990, p. 236). Peer learning and the collectivising of tacit knowledge have encouraged...

It was previously a given in many business strategies that people arrive at decisions using an objective economic rationalist perspective and methodology. That orientation to rational economic decision-making can be seen even in the writing and thinking of those acknowledged as more radical...

Any team is at bottom really a metaphor for the synergies resulting from a bunch of conversations and related actions of a set of individuals who, because they share some core values, are able to cooperate to achieve a common task. Team development then is about the extent of cooperative...

In their 2014 report, Deloitte asserted that the global business landscape has fundamentally changed and that ‘business-as–usual' and the previous ideas of what is Normal are a thing of the past. They imply that everyone is now working in the world of VUCA - an acronym for the volatility,...

This appendix is for the iterations of the exercise where a team is given the task of resolving the executive's problems outlined in the Friday 13th case. The teams are asked to consider roles members take in discussions using the simple descriptors of the nine roles as described by Belbin

This paper examines actively-embodied learning and was part of an action research project undertaken originally by a group of MBA students during 1996 and 1998 that was extended by the first author. The MBA teams' projects were initially undertaken as a number of consultancy projects for local...

Foreword -- Preface -- Introducing the emergence team approach -- Team context definition and consensus building -- Establishing the emergence team -- Team leader insights -- Emergence team dynamics -- Team members' insights -- Team intelligence-in-action -- Digital technology and emerging teams...

This chapter extends previous research published in 2016 which looked into the embedding contexts of networks of small firms, principally in the EU , and the means by which collaboration between small to medium enterprises (SMEs) was supported inside national and regional clustering structures...