Your Dynamic Network Report

Understanding the specific components: Who’s independently working on the goal?

How intense are the entities striving for the goal?

Implications for change: Are there some people that are working too hard on their own for the goal or too little in this system? For those doing too little or nothing on their own, what could be done to motivate them to do more on their own?

Who is supporting one another in the goal pursuit? And who are the most central system supporters in the network?

These charts are highly interactive in this report so you can move them around. This lets you move them around to re-position them as well. Just click on an entity and drag it to see the entire chart move around. You can also select specific entities within this chart to see their more direct linkages by clicking on “Select by id” or just clicking on the entity. You can also select specific entities within this chart to see their more direct linkages. To do so, click on “Select by id” and then pick an entity. Or, just click on an entity in the diagram itself. This, too, will then let you see the links coming from just this specific entity, for example.

The Centrality on these pages show the degree to which each entity in your network is highly central on that role.

Degree centrality is helpful to understand how many links are coming in and/or going out from specific entities.

Betweeness centrality is helpful to see if each entity acts as an important bridge between others in your larger system.

How much support are the entities getting (incoming) and giving (outgoing)?

How intense are the incoming and outgoing support linkages on average for each entity?

Who’s getting feedback about the goal pursuit?

Overall, who’s working together for the goal? And what’s most central to the process?

How intense are the incoming and outgoing goal pursuit links for the goal?

Who’s independently obstructing the goal?

Who are the entities engaged with each other that obstructs the goal? And who’s in the middle of this?

How much obstruction are entities getting (incoming) and potentially creating (outgoing)?

How intense are the incoming and outgoing linkages that may be obstructing one another on average for each entity?

Which entities are feeling upset with each other in relation to the goal? And who’s in the middle of this?

How much negativity are entities getting from others (incoming) and how upset are they with others (outgoing)?

####How intense are the incoming and outgoing linkages of negativity toward each other on average for each entity?

Which entities are trying to be constructive, if there are conflicts in relation to the goal? And who’s in the middle of this?

How much constructive input are entities receiving from others, if there is a conflict (incoming) and how constructive are entities being toward others, if they have a conflict (outgoing)?

How intense are the incoming and outgoing linkages of constructive behavior in conflicts on average for each entity?

Zooming half way out. A broader view of all of the conflict in the system

How intense are the incoming and outgoing goal pursuit links in the conflict process?

How much are entities engaged in the different roles overall?

Based on Dynamic Network Theory: Goal striving (G) - entities working independently on the goal (solid blue to goal) System supporting (S) - entities helping or supporting those pursuing the goal (solid blue lines between entities). Goal preventing (P) - entities independently doing things that obstructs the goal (dotted red line to goal). Supportive resisting (V) - entities engaging with others which obstructs the goal (dotted red line between entities). System negating (N) - entities upset with others in relation to the goal (solid red line between entities). System reacting (R) - entities reacting constructively to others, if there is a conflict in relation to the goal (Solid purple line between entities). Feedback(FB) - entities observing feedback received about the goal progress (‘Observer role’ in dynamic network theory).

Motivational forces in the dynamic network system

Network Ratios

Positive system focus ratio: percentage of links dealing only with purely positive motives (G and S divided by G, S, R, P, V, and N, not including peripheral roles).

Network affirmation ratio: percentage of functional efforts to manage network dynamics, including constructive efforts to manage conflict (G, S, and R divided by G, S, R, P, V, and N, not including peripheral roles). This takes into account all the positive and constructive efforts being leveraged in the system.

High competency ratio: percentage of goal striving links that are highly skilled. (Number of goal striving entities that are reported with high skill levels divided by total number of entities goal striving).