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Individuals and Interactions: An Agile Guide
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Individuals and Interactions: An Agile Guide

by Ken Howard, Barry Rogers
April 2011
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
3h 53m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 16. Groups and Decisions

This workshop corresponds with Chapter 5, “Collaboration.” It enables your team to better understand group dynamics and decisions.

Setup

For a group whose members have all completed the DISC assessment, organize into DISC-homogeneous teams. Create separate teams, combining the D’s, I’s, S’s, and C’s into separate teams based on the element of their profiles that are the most dominant (highest point in the DISC graph).

Give the following problem to each team and examine the unique dynamics of each group as they work to come up with a solution.

When reading the problem to the groups, it’s important to read it just as it is written. This ensures that the problem is described clearly and unambiguously to everyone. ...

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