Interactive Team Dynamics™

The Dynamic Development Zone™ (DDZ™) is an organizational-based business coaching structure that is agile, adaptive, and competitive.  The DDZ™, as a framework, provides for establishing Self-Directed Teams™ (SDTs™).  The SDTs™ meet the internal and external challenges faced in the business environment of uncertain and precarious times.  In short, the organization is positioned to meet the challenges of today and the swiftly evolving markets of tomorrow.

 
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Each SDT defines its function as an independent group within the organization, i.e. a DDZ.  As the needs of the organization change in response to internal and external forces, the SDT changes in response with each individual adjusting to new, and potentially, treating situation.  The basic instinct of survival "kicks-in".  Thus, the analogy in nature is the ecosystem where adapting to the environment occurs from the smallest creature to the entire community.  Adaptation to environmental changes is the key to survival.

Adaptation requires participation of the individual, the family, community and outward to the whole environment.  Participation is either willing or non-willing...it is not a choice.  Choice is “…what happens…” as the environment changes.  In addition, the choices made by the participants will determine the health of the ecosystem, i.e. community, organization/family, and individual.

The DDZ, including the SDT and individual within the SDT, is a new construct embodied within the feedback loop of the 21st century.  The feedback loop of the 21st century is evolving at “light speed”, which demands new, innovative ways of gathering, processing and utilizing information.  The organization’s survival depends on how well the new, innovative ways are adapted by:

• First, the individuals (human capital),

• Second, the SDT and

• Finally, the DDZ

The principals of organizational development and social psychology are the foundations for meeting the demands of the 21st century.  An organization must place the highest value upon it’s human capital: provide and support opportunities of individuals to develop organizational, social psychology skills – simply: soft skills.  In the Information Age, the individual must have formal opportunities to develop soft skills.

The constructs of the information age DDZs, SDTs and the freewill of the individual must be built upon by the organization so adoption, participation and choice become the tools of survival in the uncertain and precarious markets of today and the future.  The survival of the organization depends on transitioning to the information age where participation by the individual is valued as the foundation of progress in the 21st Century, rather than a cost to be managed.  The participation of the individual evolves into leadership role(s)…the talent of leading individuals, as members of the SDT, becomes the “…value proposition…” and managing is a tool of leadership.

The constructs of the information age; DDZs, SDTs and the freewill of the individual; must be built upon by the organization so adoption, participation and choice become the tools of survival in the uncertain and precarious markets of today and the future.  The survival of the organization depends on transitioning to the information age where participation by the individual is valued as the foundation of progress in the 21st Century, rather than a cost to be managed.  The participation of the individual evolves into leadership role(s)…the talent of leading individuals, as members of the SDT, becomes the “…value proposition…” and managing is a tool of leadership.

The SDTs collaborate, through respect of individual choice, communicate and transform into the DDZ where individual choice and decision-making are driven in the direction of the SDT to the DDZ.  Thus, the individual drives decision-making and combines the synergies of the many SDTs to support the DDZ.

The DDZ operates in the corporate ecosystems (CE).  The CE is characterized by the dynamic interaction between individuals, teams (SDTs), private and public organizations.  As such, the DDZ embodies the new, elemental construct necessary for organizations to survive in the 21st century.

The next installment of the "Dynamic Development Zone: DDZ" explores:

• The introduction of Interactive Team Dynamics,

• The products provided by Interactive Team Dynamics,

• How the products build upon the new elemental construct of the DDZ,

• The innovative paradigm of leading verses managing,

• The value of human capital...no longer a cost,

• The value build into the SDT and DDZ and organization, and

• Organizational development: providing the individual with tools necessary for adaption to change, participation in decision-making and collaboration, and logical choices.

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