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Group Alchemy

Deborah Pruitt tells us how her 6 Elements of Group Alchemy create a culture where your volunteers work more collaboratively and get more done.

#041 Today I am speaking with Dr. Deborah Pruitt.  Deborah is a trained Cultural Anthropologist and applies a dynamic anthropological perspective to helping organizations achieve extraordinary results. More specifically, she helps her clients work collaboratively and unify around a collective vision. She’s found that it all starts with culture – many people have had experiences where they felt disregarded or disrespected.

“That was what led me to think deeply about how do we create a culture in a group that supports working together collaboratively for the same interests and same goals while also honoring the individuals in the group and their needs and what it is that provides the context and the space and the opportunity for them to bring their best and to do it together.”

She founded Group Alchemy to help clients build strategic plans that bring focus to the organization’s purpose and strengthen collaborative problem solving.  In this episode, we discuss her 6 Elements of Group Alchemy to help groups, no matter the size, create culture so they could work better together.   

1 Inspiration

2 Agreements

3 Accountability

4 Acknowledgement

5 Renewal

6 Mastery

Be sure to stick around until the end to hear how to get Deborah to send you a copy of her book

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4 Key Takeaways  

#1 Agreements don’t really matter if you don’t have accountability;

#2 Foundation is built on knowing why we’re here and what we’re are up to; 

#3 So many of our groups need to be freed from the management control model; 

#4 Instead of blame, Accountability is the ability to solve problems.

Show Notes

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[4:55] We are accustomed to authoritarian systems with lots of rules and policies to follow.
[5:52] That led me to look at how we create culture to work collaboratively.
[8:17] My book - 6 Elements of Group Alchemy, was written to be a step wise guide.
[10:25] Agreements don't really matter if you don't have accountability.
[14:42] if we don't understand why we are each here, we don't have a foundation to build anything.
[19:05] I realized we need to constitute a productive group that doesn't depend on authority structure.
[20:30] In our society, accountability = blame.
[23:02] Resiliency was a BIG learning from the Pandemic.

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