NPower Leaders Take It Offsite

For two days last week, the leadership team at NPower dug in deep to build our team and expand our leadership skills. We were fortunate to be facilitated by the always on point Amanda Madorno of Roam Consulting. It was a terrific couple of days capped off with good food (we love the Meydenbauer Center), great conversation and of course a team of people who are dedicated to making NPower a success.

To prepare ourselves for our time together, we read The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni—a fable about a technology team. (For real, it wasn’t about us, though each of us saw characteristics of ourselves). We conducted a self assessment on the performance of our team. Turns out “we’re not that concerned with titles and status” but we’ve got some work to do “pointing out team members unproductive behaviors”. We spent time developing our team norms (be a Tigger, not an Eyore was one of my favorites), conducting an archaeological dig of our culture and learning ways to productively deal with conflict (We all agreed that conflict is hard, but is good and we are committed to saying all that needs to be said in our team meetings)

From the moment we walked in the room, it was clear to me that our team was committed to the mission of NPower. We’ve definitely got our work cut out of ourselves as we create and innovate new ways to provide optimal technology to our community, but I’m really pleased this is my team.

-Alison

PS-I had good intentions to take lots of pictures, but alas the only pics are of one of our team challenges. See if you can figure out the challenge.