I hope you are well.

​​​​

In the 1990s, I worked as a business analyst helping move face-to-face team-building processes onto an online collaboration platform called Lotus Notes.​

 

At the time, face-to-face team building focused on developing relationships that enabled performance greater than the sum of the parts. Because online connection was less dynamic, it could not create the same relationships. I therefore separated the functional and relational aspects of team building. Online team building became a process of agreeing on a collective outcome, breaking it into functional parts, and assigning those parts to team members. Performance became the effective assembly of functioning parts.

​

My attention then shifted to helping young people develop relational skills they struggled to understand because they focused mainly on how people functioned. I learned how to address a heavy focus on how individual parts function, leading to automation and fixed ways, which over time led to fragmentation and systemic failure of self.

​​

Parents, teachers, and coaches once helped address this problem, but technology has made functional connection the dominant way we connect, and entire generations have grown up knowing little else.

​​

We need to be taken away from functional connection to learn to be mindful of how the relationships between the functions act as a whole. This enables us to anticipate personal adjustments to resist systemic fragmentation and strengthen our team’s overall performance. 

​

LifeSkills21.club is my way of doing my little bit to help solve a very big problem.

​

Always happy to chat