What team sociomapping is..
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Sociomapping is a method that uses maps to visualize and navigate the relationships within social systems and teams. It aims to transfer interpersonal relationships into visual maps to provide insight into mutual bonds. The benefits of sociomapping include providing a strategic way to consider teams as a whole, increasing social awareness, and focusing on usually intangible relationship dynamics that impact group performance. Ultimately, sociomapping seeks to help users orient themselves within team relationships and influence bonds in a desired direction.
What team sociomapping is..
- 1. PRESENTATION OF THE METHOD TEAM SOCIOMAPPING® 1
- 3. Map ► Without a map it is easy to lose sight of your destination and the best way of getting there. With a map you can work out where you are, where you want to go and how to get there. Suddenly everything becomes clearer because a map allows you to be ‘above the path’.
- 4. Method ► Combination of the words: „above a path„ (meta hodos) = method ► By connecting the words ‘above’ and ‘path’ (metha hodos), there emerged at some point the word methodos or method. If you have a method, you can save time, money and energy and ultimately reach your objectives with much greater certainty.
- 5. Geting lost ► Get lost in real space vs. get lost in difficult situations/unclear relationships ► A person doesn’t just get lost in real space. He or she can also lose their way in difficult situations, where there are just too many interconnected relationships, about which he or she is unaware of, or cannot sufficiently get to grips with.
- 6. Change - like the weather ► Each situation may change - like the weather ► Even more difficult is the fact that every human situation – unlike real space – is constantly changing and developing, just like the weather. In such situations we ask ourselves new questions. Where are things headed, and what can we do about it?
- 7. Where things evolve? How can we influence? ► Inferring group dynamics from information gathered about the personal characteristics of each individual team member is not easy. It is useful to understand how different personal styles and personalities within the team fit together. However, to establish group dynamics, it is important to reveal the mutual bonds between team members and not focus on individual characteristics such as personality or ability. The results obtained by a sports team are not decided by the individual performances of separate players, but by how they play together, by team co-operation
- 8. As we need to orient in space / we need to in relations ► In the same way we need to orientate ourselves in real space, so we must orientate ourselves in interpersonal relationships. We need to understand how people communicate, co- operate, how they can maximize, each other’s strengths as well as canceling out or removing dysfunctional behaviour.
- 9. What we want to influence? If we consider the fact that these bonds vary much more markedly than the characteristics of individual people, and that these bonds mutually influence one another, we arrive at two important conclusions. Rather than influence the characteristics of people within a team, we can influence their mutual bonds in the desired direction. As a result of the complexity of social networks, however, it is not easy to fathom what is important to influence, what to support and what to prevent, in order that a team might function at its best.
- 10. It is very difficult to change the individual. Much easier to adjust the co-operation. In simple words...
- 11. Sociomapping is a method that allows you to navigate the social systems In one sentence...
- 12. Visualization of the data Sociomapping attempts to transfer the relationships found in small social groups and organizations into a map of mutual relationships, from which in just a short time we are able to glean information about mutual bonds.
- 13. The benefits ► The method of Sociomapping provides a way of considering teams and organizations as a whole. The representation of relationships using a map increases our social sensibility, and enables us to think about teams strategically.
- 14. The benefits ► Sociomaps alert and focus the user towards areas that are intangible for the majority of people, and seldom given much attention.
- 15. 28% 22% 22% 16% 36 % BECAUSE THE BENEFITS ARE ENORMOUS 58% Faster responses to questions Far fewer email attachment Better teambuilding & cohesion Better innovation & ideas Project finish faster More corporate knowledge sharing
- 16. I hope that Team Sociomapping will help you find you own way in creating successful teams.