{"id":331,"date":"2015-03-22T16:19:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T16:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anjo.pt\/wp\/knowledge-facilitation\/?p=331"},"modified":"2015-05-22T17:21:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T17:21:51","slug":"facilitator-chancellor-vs-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/knowledge-facilitation\/2015\/03\/22\/facilitator-chancellor-vs-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Facilitator, Chancellor vs Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More and more as I read <a href=\"https:\/\/hbrblogs.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HBR<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"http:\/\/jarche.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harold Jarche<\/a>\u00a0RSS feeds that I consider the role of facilitator more important than the role of manager or project manager.<\/p>\n<p>The facilitator or coordinator of a team or a project including 1 or several teams has as main task to make progress easier. This role is the same as a chancellor &#8211; its original meaning &#8211; which is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>make sure that decisions are followed<\/li>\n<li>keeps a status of each part the project<\/li>\n<li>helps people to work together (introduces members that can help each other; creates a dialogue environment)<\/li>\n<li>anticipates and solve showstoppers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The unique manager is, in my humble opinion, devoted to end. Until now the manager position is a power position that includes decision taking. The team members under a manager have to follow the direction the manager wants, even if the majority of the team is against.<\/p>\n<p>In a healthy organisation each team member can be manager of a small sub-project and several manager can exist within a team.<\/p>\n<p>Decision should be taken together by the majority of the team and the sub-project manager can just throw his arguments to convince others and untie if there is no majority.<\/p>\n<p>Then is the role of the facilitator\/coordinator\/chancelor to ensure the decision is followed and to report to the director.<\/p>\n<p>Was about 15 years ago I heard the first time about the role of facilitator. It was in terms of open-space discussion from my university professor <a href=\"https:\/\/eden.dei.uc.pt\/~adf\/adfeng.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Ant\u00f3nio\u00a0Dias\u00a0Figueiredo<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ulisboa.academia.edu\/ArturFerreiradaSilva\" target=\"_blank\">Artur Ferreira da Silva<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since then I&#8217;ve been trying to employ this at my work. For 5 years at CERN I did coordinate meetings, report my database group to the whole IT department. Now at Nespresso I try to do the same even though the organisation is not yet prepared to move away from the powerful manager hierarchical model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More and more as I read HBR\u00a0or Harold Jarche\u00a0RSS feeds that I consider the role of facilitator more important than the role of manager or project manager. The facilitator or coordinator of a team or a project including 1 or several teams has as main task to make progress easier. This role is the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-management","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/knowledge-facilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/knowledge-facilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/knowledge-facilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/knowledge-facilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/knowledge-facilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/knowledge-facilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/knowledge-facilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/knowledge-facilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/knowledge-facilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/knowledge-facilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}