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The Most Important Thing Your Team Needs
How to dial-up a time tested strategy for building your team
We’ve all rolled our eyes at the group assignments in school. We’ve all thought, “this would be better if I could just do it myself.” We’ve all wondered, why do some teams do well and others fail?
If you reflect on the groups that work and the groups that don’t, it all comes down to one key concept. Psychological safety.
For it to emerge, groups will adopt the following operating principles.
- Everyone feels like they can speak up.
- Members show they are sensitive to each other's feelings.
Without adopting these two key rules, the group will fail.
Amy Edmondson Is The OG Of Psychological Safety
Individual intelligence does not correlate with team performance. Good teams don’t succeed because of their individual innate qualities but because of how they treat one another. (paywall)
Project Aristotle
Project Aristotle at Google. Group norms improve teams. You need to manage the how of teams. Not the who.
