I hope you are well.

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Back in the 1990s, I worked as a business analyst helping migrate face-to-face team-building processes onto a new online collaboration platform called Lotus Notes.

 

Before the internet, face-to-face team building focused on developing relationships between team members until those relationships created performance that was greater than the sum of the parts. Because technology-based connection was less dynamic than face-to-face connection, it wasn’t possible to build the same kinds of relationships online. Instead, defined the functional parts of the building process. By that I mean deconstructing an outcome into functional parts that team members agree to deliver. As a result, the performance of an online collaboration team became the assembly of parts. 

 

Then life redirected my attention towards helping young people develop the relational skills they struggled to understand because they focused primarily on how people function.

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You could say that the first part of my career involved moving from relational connection to functional connection. The second part involved moving from functional connection back to relational connection.

 

I now see that technology-supported functional connection has become so pervasive that entire generations have grown up knowing only this way of connecting. Many people no longer have the relational skills to make the whole more than the sum of the parts.

 

So what can we do?

 

I have created LifeSkills21.club

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Always happy to chat