Tom Hosmer - 2015 MI Class Champion - Under 1100 Luke Sergott - 2015 MI Class Champion - Class E Paul Mills - 2016 MI Speed - Class D 2nd place, 2014 MI Speed Chess Championship - Class E - 2nd place, 2009 MI Senior Reserve Champion Marcello Milani - 2016 MI Class Under 800 Champion Gene McClure - 2016 - Michigan Open Class C Champion, 2015 MI Action Champion - Class CДЄmerico Milani - 2016 MI Junior High Champion Zade Koch - 2017 Armed Forces Team Champions - West Point Mike Nikitin - 19 Michigan Open Class C Champion, 19 MI Class C Champion, 1987 East Detroit Open Class C Champion Sam Thompson - 2018 MI Open Class E Champion, 2018 MI Open Speed Chess Class E Champion, 2014 MI Chess Champion - Under 1000 Section and 2014 Peter Bruder - 2020 Michigan Novice Class Champion Just understand where you are on the ladder and work earnestly to move up.ДЄnd be sure to play chess with each other while doing that! So all you chess clubs out there вЂ“ including LCCC вЂ“ relax.

Recognize any of this? And yes, you can be in between rungs and step up and down as a group on occasion. Tasks are fulfilled but not at optimum completionДЄpproval needs from the group apparent вЂ“ end Wide range of participation (zero to all in) New members will cause the group to drop rungs temporarilyД¬onflict viewed as a positive means to examine issuesД¬ompetition for attention, recognition and influenceД¬onflicts arise вЂ“ voting needed, compromise and maybe arbitration from outside the groupД¬liques assume power and hidden agendas change behavior Mutual acceptance and the need for approval is gone High creativity, high morale, high cohesiveness Here are the steps on the ladder вЂ“ top to bottom: What we all should take from this is that LCCC is normal! This is how groups interact and form вЂ“ moving up and down the ladder like a Gambit playing chess maniac! So, everyone chill and understand - we are all just being people. It was developed by Proctor and Gamble and used extensively by the US Armed Forces to understand Small Group dynamics. The basic idea of Cog's Ladder is that there are five steps a group of people will go thru in order to form a team that work efficiently and effectively together.

Cogs ladder