High Performing Teams

01/20/2022 Collected and organized by Valmeek Kudesia; found over course of >10 years building teams

Necessary Factors

  • Psychological safety (prime importance)

  • Dependability

  • Structure and Clarity

  • Meaning

  • Impact

Team Effects

  • Admit mistakes, strengthen partnership, take on new roles -> produces a learning-organization

  • Less likely to leave team

  • Harness diverse ideas from teammates and self

  • Deliver more value

  • Rated as effective twice as often by executives

Edmonson Psychological Safety Assessment

  • If you make a mistake on this team, it is often held against you

  • Members of this team are able to bring up problems and tough issues

  • People on this team sometimes reject others for being different

  • It is safe to take a risk on this team

  • It is difficult to ask other members of this team for help

  • No one on this team would deliberately act in a way that undermines my efforts

  • Working with members of this team, my unique skills and talents are valued and utilized