The document summarizes an October 16, 2014 staff meeting at TRL. It discusses breaking into teams to discuss ideas for qualitatively shifting and finding a path forward for Penn Libraries. Participants are encouraged to suspend assumptions and engage in genuine thinking together. The meeting will also include an overview of work, a breakout session, and eating together afterwards.

1. TRL Staff Meeting
October 16, 2014

2. Today
• Overview of work to be done
• Break out (2 - 2:35 p)
• Come back & eat (2:40 p in Class of ’55)
• Kim to post ideas in Confluence

3. Whatever book I’m reading or listening to shapes my thinking.

4. The Fifth Discipline:
The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization
– Peter M. Senge, 1990

5. High-performing teams…

6. Well, more like teams in business or non-profit sectors

7. We spend a lot of time at work in organizations.
For many, the experience is less than ideal.

8. How can we create organizations (or teams) that enable
our collective creativity and motivation to thrive?

9. Characteristics of
Extraordinary Teams

10. Trust between members

11. Strengths of some compensate for limitations of others

12. Shared team goals are larger than individual goals

13. And they also produce extraordinary results

14. 5 Disciplines

15. Systems thinking

16. Personal mastery

17. Mental models

18. Building a shared vision

19. Team learning

20. …team learning starts with
dialogue, the capacity of
members of a team to
suspend assumptions and
enter into a genuine thinking
together.

21. This is your charge for today:
!
Qualitatively shift the landscape of
Penn Libraries by talking about the things that
matter & finding our own path forward.

23. Teams, locations, roles & questions
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