Dialoge and Discussion
A team performing at peak levels creates an alignment of energies - the group functions as a whole - learns from its activities and keeps getting better. Such collective learning from experience has three critical dimensions: the need to think insightfully about critical issues, act in innovative, coordinated ways and foster the development of peak team performance by other teams within the organization.
The power for such generative learning in organizations comes from the synergy between dialogue and discussion. Dialogue is diverging, discussion is converging. To capture this synergy, several factors must be present.
1. Team members are on the way to mastering the skills of discourse that use both dialogue and discussion.
2. Team members can distinguish between the purposes and processes of the two forms of discourse and know when to enlist the.
3. Team members can engage the three conditions for dialogue:
• suspend assumptions
• regard one another as colleagues
• engage a facilitator who holds the context of dialogue
4. Team members become observers of their own thinking.
5. Team members monitor and respectfully divert forces opposing productive dialogue and discussion
The power for such generative learning in organizations comes from the synergy between dialogue and discussion. Dialogue is diverging, discussion is converging. To capture this synergy, several factors must be present.
1. Team members are on the way to mastering the skills of discourse that use both dialogue and discussion.
2. Team members can distinguish between the purposes and processes of the two forms of discourse and know when to enlist the.
3. Team members can engage the three conditions for dialogue:
• suspend assumptions
• regard one another as colleagues
• engage a facilitator who holds the context of dialogue
4. Team members become observers of their own thinking.
5. Team members monitor and respectfully divert forces opposing productive dialogue and discussion
Dialogue:
Discussion:
- Different views are presented as a way of discovering a new view
- Free and create exploration of complex and subtle issues
- A deep listening
- A suspending of one's views
- Deepens understanding
Discussion:
- Different views are presented and defended in search of the best view to support a decision
- Analyze and dissect an issue from many points
- Winning is usually the goal (one's view prevails) but most take second priority to coherence and truth
- From percussion, concussion - a ping-ponging of something between us
- Decisions are made