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Shared Intentionality and Coordinated Action in Meetings: How to Improve the Balance of Asking and Telling

In: Practices of Dynamic Collaboration

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  • Jan De Visch

    (Catholic University of Leuven - Flanders Business School (FBS))

  • Otto Laske

    (Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM))

Abstract

In this chapter, we focus on the function as well as the pitfalls of meetings. We emphasize that meeting participants are developmentally not cut from the same cloth. They are, in what they do and do not, limited by how they position themselves to others social-emotionally, as well as by the quality of their conceptual grasp of situations and topics of team discussion. To lay bare the dialogical dynamics of meetings, we integrate findings from adult-developmental research with Tomasello’s research (2014), which conceptualizes collaboration as based on shared intentionality. More specifically, we show that participants carry into meetings what we call their internal workplace—the mental space in which they construct their role identity and its interpretation. We see the internal workplace as the crucible of every meeting, whatever its topic, and discuss a range of meeting practices, suggesting how to improve the quality of dialogue in each of the three We-Spaces.

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  • Jan De Visch & Otto Laske, 2020. "Shared Intentionality and Coordinated Action in Meetings: How to Improve the Balance of Asking and Telling," Management for Professionals, in: Practices of Dynamic Collaboration, chapter 3, pages 47-66, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:mgmchp:978-3-030-42549-4_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-42549-4_3
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