This insightful TED article totes a “secret ingredient” that makes certain teams better than the rest. It’s not a new-fangled technical skill or lofty academic course of study, but “social capital: the trust, knowledge, reciprocity and shared norms that create quality of life and make a group resilient.”
Furthermore, an MIT research group found that teams who did exceptionally at solving creative problems shared three qualities:
- Team members allowed everyone to speak equally without anyone dominating conversations or contributions.
- Team members were sensitive to the individual styles of others and for this reason employed empathy regularly in their communication.
- The highest-performing teams always included more women.
Our approach to building high-performing teams (of all shapes and sizes) is largely founded on the development of trust and the collective effort to discuss personal workplace value differences. In other words, the team’s mission becomes integration, and the result is a hybrid team culture.
CultureWizard TeamPlace is a team profiling tool developed by RW3 to help teams become high-performing. TeamPlace data is used to openly discuss personal workstyle preferences, what drives them, where they’ve come from, and how to work together in a way that brings the often invisible and neglected into plain sight. Request a demo today and see how CultureWizard TeamPlace can help you build high-performing global teams in your organization.
