This course will highlight how the APPRECIATION Algorithm Increases Goal Alignment, Strengthens Productive Team Norms, Builds Trust, and Accumulates Social Capital Value within a Venture Team.

Recent research has made considerable progress in understanding the dynamics of entrepreneurial human interactions in venture teams, multi-team systems, and entire organizations. Until recently, however, it has been difficult for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and consultants to use this knowledge in real-time to help create more valued individual contributors and effective collaborative teams. This is because detailed data about the specific dynamics of various interpersonal interactions and the resulting information and influence flows across an organization remain hidden from leaders and managers. Complex network theory researchers call this phenomenon: “missing information”.

APPRECIATION Algoritm is a well-defined mechanism in human interaction dynamics (HID) that, when supported by secure AI, data analytics, and information and communications technologies, enables individuals to build and evolve their own human and social capital in the context of an organization's goals and norms. It does this by enabling individual contributors to observe, gather, and use information about the efficacy of their cooperative interactions and how these might be improved. Such a system places each worker, as an individual contributor, at the center of their own personal human and social value creation process. Importantly, each individual’s personal privacy is secure and protected because each user’s data can only be accessed in detail by that precise user to support that individual’s purposeful professional development.