NL1005756C2 - System for gauging mood of a team during simulated organisation changes - Google Patents

Abstract

The cylindrical unit has a light source linked by optical fibres to illuminate the undersides of a series of rotatable discs. The discs have holes in them into which plain coloured transparencies are inserted. The user selects a colour for the mood of each member of the simulated team by rotating the discs. White is used for denial; blue for anger; purple for negotiable; red for depressed; orange for curious and yellow for integratable. The resultant colour combination gives an overall mood for the team.

Description

STATE DETERMINATION

The present invention relates to an apparatus for measuring the state of a group of people as a result of the state in which the individuals of the group are located and measuring the state of an organization as a result of the state in which the groups of which the organization is built are located, which in turn depends on the state of the individual persons.

In these times of rapid and radical changes in (business) organizations, it is important to gain insight into and become aware of the change processes that occur at organizational, team and individual level.

These change processes are both business and personal. The business and personal change processes must be coordinated as well as possible. Without proper coordination, 20 changes are often not realized or leave a trail of disagreement and negativity through the organization.

Therefore, methods have been developed for simulating change processes under conditioned conditions in order to gain insight into the mechanisms of the change processes.

In a simulated change process, participants in the simulation go through a series of change phases. At the end of each phase, the individual team reflects the personal state and measures its influence on the state of the team in which they are assigned. The influence is then measured on the state of the entire organization, which consists of all teams together.

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The personal state is represented by the color of a transparent disc. The state of a team or organization is represented by the mixed color that is created by combining all 5 colors of the participants that make up the team or organization respectively. The condition of the team and the organization can be measured by comparing the resulting mixed color.

The present invention provides a device with which it is possible to measure the state of a team or organization in such a way. In the following, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the figures.

Figure 1 shows a top view of the simulation device.

Figure 2 shows a cross-section of the simulation device.

The device consists of a circular cover sheet 1, which rests on a closed supporting part 2. In the center of the cover sheet, a circular primary recess 3 is arranged, which recess is sealed with a transparent perspex plate. Circular from the central recess 3 are arranged 25 circular secondary recesses 4, the centers of which are located on a circle around the center of the wrapper 1. On a circle around the above circle are the centers of circular tertiary recesses 5, which are also 30 sealed with a transparent plate. In the space between the closed supporting part 2 in the cover sheet 1, a light source 6 is placed, to which a number of glass fiber cables 7 are attached, which glass fiber cables 7 guide the light originating from the light source 6 to divergent lens means 8. The circular recesses are exposed with a diverging light beam from the lens means 8.

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In the present preferred embodiment, the organization consists of four teams representing four critical business processes, such as, for example, manufacturing, human resources, sales, and finance.

5 The teams in turn consist of four separate persons.

The primary circular recesses represent the organization, the secondary circular recesses represent the team, and the tertiary circular recesses represent individuals. The simulation is divided into four phases, comment phase, preparation phase, solution phase and formalization phase. The simulation is then carried out by asking the participants a number of questions and having them give a number of answers.

There are four moments of reflection, whereby one individually determines his condition with regard to a certain phase. For example, in the comment phase the state can be between the values "no" and 20 "over-enthusiastic", in the preparation phase between "transverse" and "idealistic", in the solution phase "rigid" and "exploration" and in the formalization phase between "roll back" "and" renew ". These possible states of the individual persons are then converted into colors.

25 This occurs because the person in question compares his condition with colors on a so-called "energy thermometer" which assigns a color to each energy, such as:

Denial White 30 Anger Blue

Negotiate Purple

Despondent / Depressed Red

Explore new possibilities Orange 35 Integrate Yellow

The individual person then places a transparent disc, which transmits only light of the color 1005756 4 corresponding to the condition of this person, on the tertiary circular recess 5 intended for him, on the secondary circular recess 4 intended for his team and the front primary circular cutout intended for the entire organization 3.

The secondary recess will therefore show a mixed color that is formed from the colors of the individuals that make up the team.

Also, the primary recess will show a mixed color 10 that is formed from the colors of the individuals that make up the organization.

Based on the mixing color that arises in the secondary and primary recesses, the status of the team and the organization can be measured by comparing these 15 mixing colors with the "energy thermometers" of the team and the organization, respectively.

The advantage of the present invention is that it is immediately visible what influence the state of individuals has on the state of the team or even on the state of the entire organization. This makes it clear that an organization is the sum of all individual persons, that each individual person has to adjust his pace and must cooperate with the others to achieve their change at the organizational level, so that one can actually speak of transformation after a change process.

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Claims (6)

1. Apparatus for measuring the influence of the state of a unit on the state of a group consisting of at least two units, wherein the state of a unit is represented by the color transmitted by a transparent disc means; the transparent disk means of the individual units are combined; 10, the combined transparent disc means is exposed, thereby forming a mixing color representing the state of the group. The device according to claim 1, wherein the state of an organization, consisting of at least two groups, is represented by the mixing color of the combination of the transparent disc means of the individual groups. Device as claimed in any of the foregoing claims, wherein the transparent disc means have the colors white, red, yellow and blue. 4. Device as claimed in any of the foregoing claims, further comprising: - a substantially circular cover sheet, in which a number of circular recesses are arranged, which recesses are closed with transparent plates, whereby colored disc means can be applied to the transparent plates. 5. Device according to claim 4, further comprising a substantially circular bottom plate and a wall which is attached to the bottom plate and on which said cover sheet can rest. The device of any one of claims, further comprising 1005756 - a light source mounted on a base plate; - per circular recess in the cover sheet a glass fiber cable, which is connected on one side to the light source and on the other side is attached to a mounting plate, which is mounted on the wall; - divergent lens means attached to the glass fiber cables. 1005756