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Writer & web editor: Jan P. Hagberg. / Technically responsible: Aleksander Kristian Weseth

SGL Roots

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Our vision

We believe that a better quality of life encourages interaction and uses skills effectively in the right situations with courage.

  • Words have the power to shape our reality.
    Leadership should reflect a humane perspective. 
    We promote values and conversation strategies that enhance: Communication – Creativity – Quality

  • Using clear concepts and definitions for better understanding.      
  • Employing visual aids and recognizable content icons.
  • Using SGL language in blue, red, yellow, and purple for leadership and communication.
 

From the oil crisis in 1987 to today's challenges

The development of SGL as a management tool began in Norwegian Hydro Oil Division (U & P) from 1988 to 2000 – During this period, Jan P. Hagberg was engaged as Coach and  Leadership Advisor for a number of major projects. –

Through continuous challenges in Human Resources, teambuilding, meeting observations and feedback sessions, appraisals talks, projects leadership, TQM and etic- challenges – it was created step by step 

 a culture and a methodology named SGL, with active useres all over Scandinavien. 

Scandinavien – Groups and Leadership / SGL is however, not a book, but a puzzle of ideas and an archive and a library for models which visualize: People and values, performance and leadership for all those who want a lot.
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THE ROOTS

AND THE MODELS..

The SGL concept began as a scholarship project funded by the LoR / Leadership Development Council in Norway, and continued as an HR project in Norwegian Hydro’s oil division. –
It was in the months after the first oil crisis in 1987, which was followed by tremendous pressure to find new oil reservoirs in the North Sea. – In this phase, our studies became a tool and a methodology to get the geologists to think new and differently in the search for new solutions. 
 It was all quite crazy, but we succeeded in creating safe and creative academic environments that both dared and wanted to think outside the “box”. – It was the beginning of a collaboration with Hydro that lasted a full 17 years.

   HYDRO & NEW SKILLS ..

  • “SGL Supervision program is so original and different from other “courses” that it adds new skills and shakes many managers out of solidified attitudes and ways of thinking.” 
    Ivar Ramberg, Exploration Director, Hydro U&P

Along the way,
the SGL methodology was also used by some of our subcontractors and partners, within both the public and private sectors.
It gave us enormous observational material, which little by little crystallized into four communication colors and four archetypal basic roles for personality roles, as well as four decision gates for decisions and risk. –
It was all learning by experience, until we were challenged by other suppliers who also wanted to enter this market. Then we started looking for the identity of our own findings, and discovered to our astonishment that we had a “soulmate” in the pyschologist Carl Gustav Jung’s (1875 -1961) four archetypes, which in turn drew its inspiration from ancient Hindu thinking from about 1000 years ago, before Christ.

We were also inspired by the three active levels of the so-called transactional analysis that distinguish between (Parent, Adult and Child) from the famous book “Games People Play” by Eric Berne.
In that way the book should form the basis for the theoretical and practical structure of our eight team roles and their use and significance for decisiveness, creativity and leadership.

SGL believes that the characters in The Game of Chess, who have their clear roots in Hinduism’s functional roles and caste system, inspired Carl Gustav Jung and his way of thinking. 
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