{"id":82030,"date":"2022-11-07T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=82030"},"modified":"2022-11-16T15:17:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T19:17:37","slug":"team-learning-peter-senge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/team-learning-peter-senge\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Senge: Team Learning (Discipline 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is &#8220;team learning&#8221; in Peter Senge&#8217;s <em>The Fifth Discipline<\/em>? Why is it important to create opportunities for your employees to learn together? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team learning is the fourth discipline in Peter Senge&#8217;s framework for creating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/a-learning-organization\/\">a learning organization<\/a>. Team learning encourages people to find ways to work together effectively despite the differences in personalities and communication styles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s how you can implement the discipline of team learning in your organization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-is-team-learning\"><strong>What Is Team Learning<\/strong>? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Peter Senge, <em>team learning<\/em> is the process by which a group of people learns how to work together effectively and help each other reach their shared goals. Senge says that team learning has three key aspects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1) Group-based worldview improvement. <\/strong>Team members should work together to identify each other\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/faulty-assumptions\/\">faulty assumptions<\/a> and improve each other\u2019s worldviews.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2) Spontaneous teamwork. <\/strong>A team that has learned to work together and evolve together will sometimes take actions that are unplanned, yet perfectly coordinated. Much like a trained and practiced troupe of improvisational actors, the team members understand and trust each other to the point that their teamwork becomes instinctual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-is-collective-consciousness\/\">Shared Consciousness<\/a> and Individual Empowerment<\/strong><br><br>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/team-of-teams\"><em>Team of Teams<\/em><\/a>, retired US Army general Stanley McChrystal also discusses this sort of spontaneous teamwork, which he calls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/team-of-teams\/part-2#shared-consciousness-navy-seals\">shared consciousness<\/a>. McChrystal describes this phenomenon as <strong>a moment when people stop thinking as individuals and instead become a single cohesive unit. <\/strong>As an example, he talks about three Navy SEAL snipers who\u2014having built this kind of instinctive teamwork through intense training and experience\u2014acted together without communicating to take down three different targets simultaneously.&nbsp;<br><br>McChrystal adds that spontaneous teamwork requires team members to be <em>empowered<\/em>, meaning each person is able to act on his or her own without needing to consult a superior. In his anecdote, the three snipers didn\u2019t need to wait for a command to fire\u2014they all simply knew when the moment was right and took the opportunity. In fact, needing to get approval from a higher-up would have interrupted their seamless teamwork and made them less effective\u2014they could have missed their opening while waiting for the go-ahead.&nbsp;<br><br><strong>In short, spontaneous teamwork happens when people have the authority to act independently and the experience to act synchronously.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3) Connections with other teams. <\/strong>Remember that your team is just one part of a larger system, and whatever decisions you make will likely need other teams from other parts of the organization to put them into practice. Therefore, it will benefit your team (and the organization as a whole) to promote team learning practices among those other teams as well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senge warns that team learning is a difficult process, and it will take a lot of practice\u2014figuring out how to work together effectively often means discovering all the ways that you <em>don\u2019t <\/em>work together effectively. Personalities might clash, ideas may interfere with each other, and team members might find themselves stepping on each others\u2019 toes when communication isn\u2019t clear enough. <strong>That\u2019s why Senge lays down the rule: Do not assign blame.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An evolving team\u2014and an evolving organization\u2014is bound to make mistakes along the way. In fact, that\u2019s how evolution happens: People make mistakes or run into problems and then learn how to avoid them in the future. Just remember that you <em>are <\/em>a team, working together and learning together. So, instead of turning against each other to find someone to blame, turn your combined efforts against the problem.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-team-learning-ties-into-the-big-picture\"><strong>How Team Learning Ties Into the Big Picture&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Peter Senge, team learning is, in essence, organizational evolution on a smaller scale. It requires the same skills and practices as improving your organization\u2019s worldview, and it\u2019s how your team members help each other to accomplish the organization\u2019s common mission.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, your team is part of the organization as a whole\u2014so by helping your team to improve its worldview, develop teamwork, and spread those skills to other teams, <strong>you\u2019re directly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-do-hard-work\/\">doing the work<\/a> of creating an evolving organization.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember that an organization is nothing but the people who comprise it\u2014once every team and every person in the organization is practicing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-grow-as-a-person\/\">personal growth<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/big-picture-thinking\/\">big-picture thinking<\/a>, you will have created an evolving organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>How to Lead Organizational Change<\/strong><br><br>Successfully creating any kind of organizational change, either on a team level or a whole-organization level, is difficult; it requires strong leadership, a clear vision, and collective effort from members of the organization. Leadership expert and consultant John Kotter writes in <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/leading-change\/1-page-summary\"><em>Leading Change<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>that effective organizational change is <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/leading-change\/1-page-summary\">a seven-step process<\/a>:<br><br><strong>1. Create urgency. <\/strong>Make sure everyone understands why this change has to happen and why it has to happen <em>now.&nbsp;<\/em><br><br><strong>2. Make a team. <\/strong>Put together a group of people with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/diverse-skills\/\">diverse skill<\/a> sets to lead the organizational change.&nbsp;<br><br><strong>3. Develop your vision. <\/strong>Make sure you have a clear and specific idea of your company\u2019s future. In other words, what are you ultimately trying to accomplish by making this change?&nbsp;<br><br><strong>4. Sell your vision. <\/strong>Prepare a statement that you can distribute through the organization explaining what your vision is and why it\u2019s right for the company. Make sure your statement is clear\u2014avoid jargon\u2014and invite feedback on and discussion about the vision.&nbsp;<br><br><strong>5. Clear the way. <\/strong>Identify <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/obstacles-to-change\/\">obstacles to change<\/a> and overcome them. Common obstacles include pushback from supervisors and managers and insufficient training among core staff.<br><br><strong>6. Set small goals to produce small victories. <\/strong>As you implement large-scale and long-term change, keep people motivated and determined by setting achievable milestones and celebrating when you pass them.<br><br><strong>7. 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