Chapter 8. Using clearing meetings to advance self-organization

This chapter covers

  • Using clearing meetings to advance team organization
  • Identifying and utilizing team goals
  • Structuring and examples of clearing meetings

Self-organization can be defined as the team working independently of you, the leader, when making decisions and moving forward in a productive manner.

This chapter discusses how to use clearing meetings to advance the team gradually toward the ability and skills necessary to solve their problems without you. I’ve found this technique useful with my own teams.

In the previous chapters, you learned about the learning phase. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to gradually move your team into self-organization while measuring ...

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