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Renee Owen
Dr. Renee Owen presents recent research on how non-profit leadership teams changed their communication and increased learning after adopting sociocracy, a self-organizing governance system. We will look at findings from the study and experiment with a communication measurement tool called AirtimeBA, while we hold our own conversation.
Findings from the study indicate that when teams learn to structure meetings using sociocracy processes, the underlying structure of a sociocratic meeting provides cues to communicating with increased openness and inquiry, leading to an improvement in team learning behaviors. Teams in the study reported more inclusiveness, psychological safety, and more effective meetings.
Communication behaviors for the study were measured with Airtime Behavior Awareness (AirtimeBA), an application that codes speech acts. During the colloquium, participants will engage in a discussion while Renee demonstrates the use of this exciting tool for measuring verbal communication. We will examine quantitative data from AirtimeBA, revealing the quality of our conversation, while learning how we can coach teams to make meetings more effective.