Leadership Team Tool for better meaning making

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to present a Leadership Team Tool for developing reflexivity in the context of leadership teams.Design/methodology/approach– The Leadership Team Tool is based on the theoretical premises of seeing communication as meaning making, and therefore placing discourse and conversation in the center of developing leadership teams.Findings– The paper illustrates how reflexivity can be facilitated through a structured process of using the Leadership Team Tool. An empirical investigation of using the tool in an authentic leadership team setting is warranted to further develop the Leadership Team Tool.Originality/value– The paper makes a practical contribution to s…

Facilitating Conversations That Matter Using Coordinated Management of Meaning Theory

Työnjohtajien ja työntekijöiden käsityksiä luottamuksesta vuorovaikutussuhteessa

Johtoryhmien vuorovaikutus - miten kehittää taitavaa vuorovaikutusta?

Lectio praecursoria puheviestinnän väitöskirjaksi tarkoitetun tutkimuksen Facilitating leadership team communication tarkastustilaisuudessa Jyväskylän yliopistossa 5.12.2015. Vastaväittäjänä toimi dosentti Anu Sivunen (Aalto-yliopisto) ja kustoksena professori Maarit Valo.

Communication challenges facing management teams

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to explore what kinds of communication challenges management teams (MTs) experience and to suggest ideas for developing competent communication practices.Design/methodology/approach– Working according to the principles of qualitative research, a total of seven MT members from seven different international companies were interviewed. The thematic in-depth interviews were analyzed by first looking at all references of communication challenges, and then grouping them into six different dimensions.Findings– Most of the communication challenges facing MTs are related to the teams’ meetings, where issues of leadership, decision making and participation may we…

Facilitating leadership team communication

The purpose of this study is to understand and describe how to facilitate competent communication in leadership teamwork. Grounded in the premises of social constructionism and informed by such theoretical frameworks as coordinated management of meaning theory (CMM), dialogic organization development (OD), systemic-constructionist leadership, communication competence, and reflexivity, this study seeks to produce further insights into understanding leadership team communication, communication competence, and team facilitation as applied communication research. This study consists of five articles. The first focuses on the theoretical framing of the relationality of communication competence i…