This weekend I’ve spent most of my time reading and finding articles on a strengths-based philosophy and team effectiveness. I read a couple of dissertation literature reviews on strengths (one was Louis, 2008 ( so very thankful she was THOROUGH)) and have a long list of books I need to get from the library as well as making a rather substantial order from Amazon. I anticipate spending time writing about the strengths-based philosophy definition and the two schools of thought then go into the StrengthsFinder tool itself. It seems there is a good bit of information in the technical report itself so I need to get that document as well.
Team effectiveness looms a bit larger for me. I am really starting as a blank slate on this topic so I’ve been looking at both some dissertation literature reviews and then beginning to get articles that seem to appear over and over in the reviews. My worry though is that I’ll miss some huge work that is out there. But I guess the worst thing that can happen is that I miss it, I find out I’ve missed it and then I go back and get it. Problem solved! I have found a good number of articles to get me started this week and we’ll see where I land by week’s end. So far I have a definition of team and work group and am beginning to work on effectiveness. Although I have about 16 articles waiting on me as I avoid them now by working on this blog entry!
The area I haven’t tackled yet is trust. I have a stack of articles that is waiting on me but I’m thinking I’ll just really cover one construct at a time.
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