Can the team leader or facilitator take the Users Guide out before giving the exercises to the team?
Certainly they can, but in doing so they would lose one of the most powerful characteristics of the exercises. If the team leader is the only person to have a User’s Guide, the old traditional command-control model of management would be repeated. The leader would take on the position of being the expert and assume the role of teaching the team what to do. When this happens, team members have a tendency to fall into a passive role. Some may sit back, resist, and judge how well the leader does. Then if the session isn’t a success they declare it to be the leader’s fault or a problem with the materials.
