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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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Group Effectiveness Training | High Performance Teams | Human Synergistics | The Circumplex

Blending Perspectives for Effective Team Problem-Solving: An Integrative Approach
ByKarl Perry December 7, 2023December 17, 2023

What can we do to integrate different cultural perspectives into effective team problem-solving? Effective team problem-solving demands more than just technical expertise or individual brilliance. It requires an understanding of different cultural perspectives and an ability to integrate these into a cohesive, functional whole. New Zealand, with its unique blend of cultures, has an opportunity…

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High Performance Organisations | High Performance Teams | Leadership | Managing Conflict in the Workplace | Theory of Constraints

Inherent Simplicity: A New Lens to Understand the Human System
ByKarl Perry September 8, 2023September 12, 2023

In trying to improve organizational performance we often find ourselves overwhelmed by the intricacies of human behavior, societal dynamics, and the myriad of emotions and cognitive processes that drive our actions. The human system, with its vast web of interconnections, is a classic example of a “complex adaptive system” (CAS). But what if we could…

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

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 – 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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