Leadership or Facilitation: funny video clip from Red Dwarf
Stumble It!At certain times a team leader needs to facilitate rather than direct. However when a leader acts too much as a facilitator or a facilitator starts to try to lead a team you get problems. Enjoy what happens when the Red Dwarf crew get themselves in a real mess over this point.
When the Red Dwarf crew have all their negative emotions sucked out by an alien poor old Rimmer loses his anger and turns into a "facilitative leader".
But does Rimmer win the support of the team for his proposed solutions to the crisis at hand?
How does a team leader judge when facilitation is required rather than direction?
Which member of the Red Dwarf crew shows most leadership in this clip?
Watch the clip Red Dwarf: The Meeting
The defining difference between Leadership and Facilitation is really the difference between (detached) involvement and (active) commitment.
My favourite illustration of this difference is the role of the pig and the chicken in delivering the bacon and eggs for your breakfast - the chicken is involved but the pig is committed.
Further Reading
Collective stupidity and the madness of crowds
Leadership under pressure: the two worst mistakes
About Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson is an expert practitioner in the area of bioteaming, swarming, virtual enterprise networks, virtual professional communities and virtual teams and has published two landmark books:
Bioteams: High Performance Teams Based on Nature's Best Designs
The Networked Enterprise: Competing for the future through Virtual Enterprise Networks
Ken writes the highly popular bioteams blog which has over 500 articles on all aspects of bioteams (aka organizational biomimicry) - in other words how human groups can learn from nature's best teams.
Ken is also founder of an exciting European technology company Swarmteams which provides unique patent-pending bioteaming technologies for all shapes and sizes of groups, social networks, business clusters, virtual/mobile communities and enterprises. Swarmteams enables groups to be more responsive and agile by fully integrating their mobile phones and the web with bioteam working techniques. The latest Swarmteams implementation is SwarmTribes which helps musicians and bands form a unique collaboration with their fans for mutual benefit.
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