◯ Reading a Group
What several charts make together — coverage, pairs, tempo — and the much longer list of things a group reading cannot tell you.
Three short lessons on laying several charts over one another: what the combined shape describes, a worked example on a real group where the honest answer was to leave three people out, and the three measures worth knowing. Structural throughout: this method describes a shape, never a person's character, competence or worth.
The lessons
1.
Reading a group: what this can and can't tell you
Several charts laid over one another make a shape none of them has alone. What that shape describes — and the much longer list of things it doesn't.
2.
A worked example: four leaders at a summit
The method applied to a real group — and the decision, made before any chart was drawn, about who could honestly be included.
3.
Pairs, tempo and the things that rest on one person
Three group measures worth knowing — what runs between two people, how many clocks a group keeps, and what happens when only one person holds something.