Reading the Room: Group Dynamics for Coaches and Leaders
- 7h 16m
- David Kantor
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2012
In Reading the Room, renowned systems psychologist and family therapist David Kantor applies his theory of structural dynamics to help leaders and coaches understand and improve communication within their teams. He helps readers understand how and why they and their teams communicate differently when faced with low-stakes or high-stakes situations, and he provides a framework to help improve leadership behavior in high-stakes situations.
Acknowledging that early personal history and adult relationships have an impact on individual leadership and communication, the author discusses how leaders' awareness of their personal histories can help them become more effective in their leadership teams.
Armed with the information outlined in this groundbreaking book, coaches and leaders will be able to: intervene effectively to produce positive change in both the group's dynamics and its outcomes, help people in the room alter their behavior to better reach their aspirations, identify the recurring sequences of behavior taking place in a group, understand why differing individual preferences for boundaries and rules affect their conversation, and much more.
Written to help readers understand the reasons why leaders and teams get along—or don't—when they communicate in a group, this book will serve as the leader's "go-to" resource for insight and perspective in leading their team.
About the Author
David Kantor, Ph.D., is a systems psychologist, organizational consultant, and clinical researcher. Kantor was formerly the head of Monitor Kantor Enterprises (MKE), a business unit of Monitor Group. Kantor has been a professor at Harvard University, Harvard University Medical School, and Tufts University Medical School. He also founded and served as director of the Kantor Family Institute, a postgraduate training center in Boston, and The Kantor Institute, a training center for consultants, coaches, and leaders.
In this Book
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Reading the Room—Introduction and Framework
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Level I—Action Stances—The Four-Player Model
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Level II—Domains of Communication—Affect, Power, and Meaning
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Level III—Systems in Control of Speech
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The Behavioral Profile—A Synthesis of Levels I, II, and III
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Level IV—Stories, Identity, and Structured Behavior
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Narrative Purpose
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Leader Behavior in High-Stakes Situations
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The Heroic Leader in Crisis
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Sources and Signs of Moral Corruption in Leaders
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From Personal Model to Leadership Model
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Building a Leadership Model
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A Model for Living
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Beyond the Behavioral Profile
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A Structural Dynamics Analysis of Barack Obama
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Afterword—Where Structural Dynamics Goes from Here
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Notes
