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Intervention and Leadership
Figure 7: Pacing And Timing Interventions
Short Term
Process
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What’s going on now
•
What needs to happen
•
What are the interactional
dynamics
•
What
capacities
required
•
What defaults are
observable
•
Build an adaptive culture
•
•
Give the work back to the
group
Pace the work (slow down,
speed up)
•
Check in with the authority
figures
•
Disrupt the status quo (e.g.
develop collaborations to
break existing patterns)
•
Content
Long Term
Raise the stakes (ask a
provocative question) and
observe the impact
•
Watch for work avoidance
•
Get the factions together in
one place
•
Strengthen the holding
environment
•
Get factions together (the
people that have the
problem need to be in the
room)
Subject
Matter
are
•
Connect to and redefine
purpose
•
Design and undertake
experiments
•
Review the results
•
Respond to resistance
•
Support factions to make
adjustments
•
Identify and define the
Adaptive Challenge
•
Orchestrate conflict
•
Identify success and losses
•
Determine ripeness if issue
•
Reorder/redefine roles
•
Regulate the heat
•
Redistribute resources to
match emerging new reality
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