The elephant in the room : engaging with the unsaid in groups and organizations /: engaging with the unsaid in groups and organizations. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lotte Svalgaard.
• Authors: Svalgaard, Lotte
• Contents: Theme 1: Double Awareness Chapter 1: What is double awareness? The importance and challenge of reflective spaces The double task Challenges related to the double task The challenge of the reflective space Why is the reflective space in the middle of it all so essential? Recommended reading Chapter 2: Being mindful of what is above and below the surface Process awareness of what is below the surface Practising mindful awareness Emotion as data: above and below, inner and outer Reading and carrying Engaging our assumptions Deep underlying assumptions as competing commitments Recommended reading Chapter 3: Difficult feelings, negative capability and defenses Embracing and examining all sorts of feelings The challenge of not-knowing Defenses and defensive routines Anxiety, doubt and uncertainty as aspects of learning Practicing negative capability On the look-out for defense mechanisms Recommended reading Theme 2: Mindful Avoidance Chapter 4: The practice – and consequences – of mindful avoidance Willful blindness The challenge is not mindlessness How can we tell that we are practicing mindful avoidance? Why mindful avoidance? Navigating without data Recommended reading Chapter 5: Emotions as disturbance and loss of control Putting emotions into words Keeping emotions pent up The short-term reward of pretending everything is fine Worrying about emotional and relational messiness The pressure to act quickly Recommended reading Chapter 6: Not-knowing as a competence Questions as a condition for learning Acting means fixing How can we act on not-knowing? Recommended reading Theme 3: Mindful Action Chapter 7: Truth Insight into truth in the moment The past is included in the present moment Making data accessible The feeling of succeeding with mindful action Recommended reading Chapter 8: Transparency Transparency and clarity Being authentic From splitting to transparency Mindful action does not mean acting on everything that moves Rock the boat, but not so hard that you fall out of it Mindful alertness Recommended reading Chapter 9: Trust From doubt to trust Daring to embrace vulnerability How trust emerges and is maintained Having control Recommended reading Theme 4: From Avoidance to Commitment Chapter 10: Identifying and avoiding mindful avoidance Mindful logs Assumptions versus facts Life stories and role biographies Immunity to change Awareness in action From brainstorm to question storm Recommended reading Chapter 11: Mobilizing the three T’s Meaning as you see it Reflective spaces as daily routine Putting emotions into words Handling difficult taboos Dynamic tension Transparent rather than polite feedback Setting the pace Recommended reading Chapter 12: Consequences for leadership and organizational development Moving from parallel to simultaneous tracks in design Training double awareness Your own negative capability Recommended reading
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Productivity Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (220 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 658.45; Communication in organizations; Interpersonal communication; Organizational effectiveness; Teams in the workplace
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000849233; 9781000849219
• Related ISBNs: 9781032412627; 9781032412597
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