Tips on Building a Perfect Team
This is the beginning of a series of blog posts on building a high performance team based on the principles described in my new book, Build the Perfect Team.
Effective teams are critical to success in today's environment of rapid, technology-driven change. Hence, in this era of very high project failure rates, it is not surprising that organizations search for ways to improve the performance of their teams. Google's intensive study of the characteristics of their best teams led them to an unexpected discovery. The best teams create an environment of psychological safety by adopting two team norms that lead to important shared behaviors. Group development experts agree that psychological safety is essential to a high-performing team. However, as you will discover, building the perfect team involves more than setting team norms.
Effective teams are critical to success in today's environment of rapid, technology-driven change. Hence, in this era of very high project failure rates, it is not surprising that organizations search for ways to improve the performance of their teams. Google's intensive study of the characteristics of their best teams led them to an unexpected discovery. The best teams create an environment of psychological safety by adopting two team norms that lead to important shared behaviors. Group development experts agree that psychological safety is essential to a high-performing team. However, as you will discover, building the perfect team involves more than setting team norms.