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Interest Based Problem Solving: The Engine of High Performance through Engagement
ByKarl Perry November 16, 2024November 19, 2024

Interest Based Problem Solving (IBPS) is more than just a conflict resolution tool—it’s the core methodology driving successful High Performance through Engagement (HPtE) Strategy® implementations. By focusing on underlying interests rather than positions, IBPS enables organisations to harness tension between competing priorities and transform potential conflicts into opportunities for innovation and growth. The Challenge: Balancing…

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Collective Problem Solving | Interest-Based Mediation | Interest-Based Negotiations | Interest-Based Problem-Solving (IBPS) | Managing Conflict in the Workplace | The 3Cs Model

What is Interest-Based Problem-Solving?
ByKarl Perry November 30, 2022November 19, 2024

It is estimated that employees spend 42% of their time engaging in or attempting to resolve conflict and 20% of Managers’ time is consumed with conflict-related issues. Masters and Albright (2002), in The Complete Guide to Conflict Resolution in the Workplace, point out that people thrive on conflict in most areas of their lives–football games, political debates, legal disputes–yet…

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Collective Problem Solving | High Performance Organisations | Theory of Constraints

Exploitation and Subordination Reframed as Productivity and Utility
ByKarl Perry April 16, 2020April 16, 2020

This article was first published on LinkedIn by Dr Kelvyn Youngman. It is re-published here with permission. Introduction Very few people understand subordination. No, it’s true! In contrast, almost everyone understands exploitation. So, how can this be? Well, exploitation is instinctful and subordination is not. Subordination is thoughtful. We most easily understand exploitation, instinctfully, as a matter of…

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Collective Problem Solving | High Performance Organisations | Organisational Performance

‘Command and Control’ or ‘Facilitate and Release’
ByKarl Perry January 13, 2020March 28, 2020

“We are in the middle of one of the most profound shifts in human history, where the primary work of mankind is moving from the Industrial Age of “control” to the Knowledge Worker Age of “release.” Stephen R Covey The quote above is from the foreword of “Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of…

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Collective Problem Solving | Group Effectiveness Training | High Performance Teams | Human Synergistics | Interest-Based Problem-Solving (IBPS)

The Group Styles Inventory (GSI)
ByKarl Perry November 14, 2019March 31, 2023

The Group Styles Inventory (GSI) is the only research-based tool that provides a valid and reliable measure of how people in groups interact with each other and work as a team to solve problems. Extensively researched and internationally proven, this assessment provides group members with a ‘safe’ way to talk about their behaviour and how…

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Collective Problem Solving | Group Effectiveness Training | High Performance Teams | Human Synergistics

Unlock the secret of team synergy with one of the most widely used exercises for team building and group development in the world. Do your teams have what it takes to survive?
ByKarl Perry November 7, 2019November 6, 2019

The Desert Situation “It is approximately 10 o’clock in the morning on a mid-August day and you have just crash-landed in the Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States.” Your task is to rank 15 items salvaged from the plane in the order of their importance to your team’s survival. Set in an unfamiliar location,…

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Collective Problem Solving | Group Effectiveness Training | Human Synergistics | Interest-Based Problem-Solving (IBPS)

How to create an environment for breakthrough results in any team.
ByKarl Perry July 15, 2019March 31, 2023

Team breakthroughs require a combination of skill and expertise, constructive interpersonal behaviour and rational thinking. The size of your breakthrough depends on the quality of the decision, multiplied by the degree to which the decision is accepted by those who must implement it. Quality and Acceptance are brought about through consensus decision-making. Skill and expertise…

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Team Development – Using Simulations
ByKarl Perry June 19, 2019March 31, 2023

Survival Simulation Series exercises require team members to work together effectively to deal with life-threatening situations. These simulations can be used as icebreakers, to establish Constructive norms within a new work group, or to introduce members to the value of synergy or to gauge their synergistic problem-solving skills. How Simulations work Synergy occurs when the interactive…

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Collective Problem Solving | High Performance Teams

Collective problem solving – three tips to make it better.
ByKarl Perry June 13, 2019October 19, 2022

For collective problem solving to be really effective there are three things to get right: 1. Get the right people in the room. It seems obvious but often goes unchecked. Do you have the subject matter expertise in the room or, at a minimum, do you have access to them? Are the decision makers present…

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Collective Problem Solving | High Performance through Engagement | Organisational Performance

Remove resistance or harness it?
ByKarl Perry April 19, 2019March 23, 2023

There are fundamentally two approaches to dealing with resistance to change. First, we can see the power in it and utilise it in the same way as Dr. Kegan and Dr. Lahey suggest in my last post or, we can see it as harmful and try to eliminate it. In 2001 Prof. Victoria Mabin and…

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Collective Problem Solving | High Performance through Engagement | Interest-Based Problem-Solving (IBPS)

KiwiRail – HPHE
ByKarl Perry August 15, 2018August 15, 2024

At KiwiRail, adopting a high performance, high engagement strategy has helped them boost engagement, increase productivity and improve health and safety.

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Facilitating change – the real issues are …
ByKarl Perry April 19, 2017March 23, 2023

“It’s worth remembering that we lived in tribes for millennia, long before we learned how to speak. Emotional connection is our default. We only added words and symbolic logic much later. There are a few places where all that matters is the words. Where the force of logic is sufficient to change the moment. The rest…

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