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Mindful Leadership

2. WorkingMind - Module 7 - Collaboration
Mindful Leadership
WorkingMind - Module 7 - Collaboration
Cultivating
Collective Intelligence
Module 7 - Collaboration
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4. HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
Group emotional intelligence means a group that is mindful of the emotions of its members.
It develops shared, explicit norms for working and communicating in ways that build
trust, group identity and group efficacy.
Vanessa Urch Druskat and Seven B Wolff, Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups, March 2011

5. Groups with Collective Intelligence
Groups that are mindful of the emotions of their members, their own group emotions or moods, and the emotions of others outside their boundaries.
Groups with a team atmosphere that builds emotional capacity:
Awareness of other’s states of mind
Ability to work constructively with emotional states
Groups that develop shared, explicit norms for working and communicating in ways that build:
Trust
Group identity
Efficacy

6. Building the collective intelligence of groups
A team can consciously and collectively decide:
How we want to work together mindfully as a group
The individual and collective changes we want to make
Doing that, in itself, makes the team more:
Engaged
Collaborative
Creative
Productive
Building the emotional intelligence of groups – Harvard Business Review

7. Measuring the impact of mindfulness on collective intelligence
Collaborative study published in 2014 by faculty at three US universities:
Measured the ability of team members to access and understand the states of minds of others in the group. This ability is extremely important in group effectiveness.
Sixty-eight groups tested over a range of tasks:
Brainstorming
Abstract reasoning
Shared data entry
Shared memory tasks
Pattern detection tasks
Engel D, Woolley AW, Jing LX, Chabris CF, Malone TW (2014) Reading the Mind in the Eyes or Reading between the Lines? Theory of Mind Predicts Collective Intelligence Equally Well Online and Face-To-Face. PLoS ONE 9(12): e doi: /journal.pone
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8. Social brain functioning
Among the measuring systems they used was a psychometric test widely used in clinical assessments: “Reading the Mind in the Eyes”.
Used to assess people’s ability to perceive and interpret the mental state of others
Participants shown photos of the area of the eyes of their colleagues taken while they were performing the range of tests
They were asked to identify their colleagues’ emotional states at the time photos were taken
Options were complex states like “curiosity” rather than simpler states like “anger”
Individual scores of the group members were averaged for each group.
The research team correlated this data with other measurements of the groups, levels of Collective Intelligence and effectiveness
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9. Measuring impact of mindful presence in collective intelligence
Engel D, Woolley AW, Jing LX, Chabris CF, Malone TW (2014) Reading the Mind in the Eyes or Reading between the Lines? Theory of Mind Predicts Collective Intelligence Equally Well Online and Face-To-Face. PLoS ONE 9(12): e doi: /journal.pone
Team Mind

10. Measuring impact of mindful presence in collective intelligence
Groups of adults with higher average RME scores also had significantly higher “collective intelligence,” as measured by the group’s ability to perform well across a wide range of different group tasks.
Engel D, Woolley AW, Jing LX, Chabris CF, Malone TW (2014) Reading the Mind in the Eyes or Reading between the Lines? Theory of Mind Predicts Collective Intelligence Equally Well Online and Face-To-Face. PLoS ONE 9(12): e doi: /journal.pone
Team Mind

11. Higher levels of collective intelligence
Engel D, Woolley AW, Jing LX, Chabris CF, Malone TW (2014) Reading the Mind in the Eyes or Reading between the Lines? Theory of Mind Predicts Collective Intelligence Equally Well Online and Face-To-Face. PLoS ONE 9(12): e doi: /journal.pone
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12. WorkingMind - slowing down day
The two networks NN
DEN
Narrative network
Direct experience network
Daydreaming, ruminating, pondering the past, imagining the future
Subjective interpretation of experience
Self-centred storyline
Real-time experience
Feeling of being completely present
Senses are open, outer world is experienced direct
Inner bodily sensations strong
Because they connect to each other, neurons create networks in our brain. It is important to understand that Brain functions are carried out by distributed networks –no SINGLE region is responsible for a function.
As an example, on the slide you have these networks which are involved the pathophysiology of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
The study of these networks is now possible thanks to new imaging techniques: neuroscientists try to better study the structure of the brain and map anatomical regions with their interconnecting pathways in the brain
WorkingMind - slowing down day
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13. Mindful Discussion Two groups Short discussion
Report back to whole class
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14. How would mindfulness practice help cultivate collective intelligence?
Mindful Discussion
How would mindfulness practice
help cultivate
collective intelligence?
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15. Mindful Discussion Sit up Mindfulness practice Listen mindfully
Inquire and encourage
Create space
Sum up
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