Reading the Room Group Dynamics for Coaches and Leaders

by Kantor, David

• ISBN13: 9780470903438
• ISBN10: 0470903430
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

In this innovative book, renowned psychologist David Kantor applies his research and theory of structural dynamics to the workplace to show how individual leaders and coaches can develop their own skills in understanding group dynamics and apply this understanding to improve organizational communication and performance. Reading the Room provides guidelines for understanding the differences between communication in low stakes and high stakes situations, a framework for improving leadership behavior in crisis, and action strategies to enhance leadership development through organizational approaches and accelerated team performance.

Author Biography

David Kantor, Ph.D., is a systems psychologist, organizational consultant, and clinical researcher. Kantor was formerly the head of Monitor Kantor Enterprises (MKE), a business unit of Monitor Group. Kantor has been a professor at Harvard University, Harvard University Medical School, and Tufts University Medical School. He also founded and served as director of the Kantor Family Institute, a postgraduate training center in Boston, and The Kantor Institute, a training center for consultants, coaches, and leaders.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Reading the Room: Introduction and Framework	p. 1
A Complete Language for Understanding Leader Behavior	p. 21
Level I: Action Stances: The Four-Player Model	p. 23
Level II: Domains of Communication: Affect, Power, and Meaning	p. 49
Level III: Systems in Control of Speech	p. 79
The Behavioral Profile: A Synthesis of Levels I, II, and III	p. 109
Identity and Leader Behavior in High Stakes	p. 125
Level IV: Stories, Identity, and Structured Behavior	p. 127
Narrative Purpose	p. 151
Leader Behavior in High-Stakes Situations	p. 167
The Heroic Leader in Crisis	p. 193
Sources and Signs of Moral Corruption in Leaders	p. 231
Models and the Ultimate Leader	p. 263
From Personal Model to Leadership Model	p. 265
Building a Leadership Model	p. 281
A Model for Living	p. 315
Beyond the Behavioral Profile	p. 339
A Structural Dynamics Analysis of Barack Obama	p. 361
Afterword: Where Structural Dynamics Goes from Here	p. 385
Notes	p. 387
Acknowledgments	p. 399
About the Author	p. 401
Index	p. 403
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