Annemieke Figee and Leonie van Rijn started working together in 2012. Both ladies are psychologists and team coaches by background and now focus on helping organisations. In 2015 they wrote their first book "Group Pressure" and it became a great success. Now they focus on "Unwritten Rules" in their new book. 

Good or bad

"Unwritten rules always have advantages and disadvantages and work out differently for each team", Annemieke tells us. This means that in this subject we have to look very much at the situation and the circumstances: no team is the same. In order to bring unwritten rules to the surface and make them negotiable, Leonie and Annemieke have developed a game with situations. Wendy also talks about what the cards at her organisation VIE People would say.  

Taking distance 

If you are a manager and you notice that your team is bothered by unwritten rules, "you tend to focus on the content", explains Leonie. Wendy makes the comparison with football when Leonie comes up with the solution: "I immediately think of football, where the best players don't have an eye for the ball, but are actually busy with what's happening in the rest of the field". Do you want to know how to apply this in practice? Listen to the whole podcast.

Links

More about Leonie and Annemieke

The book "Unwritten Rules" 

The game discussed in the podcast

More about the Working Professor

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