Build the Perfect Team

• In Silicon Valley, software engineers are encouraged to work together, because studies show that groups tend to:
  • innovate faster.
  • see mistakes more quickly and find better solutions to problems.
  • Studies also show that people working in teams tend to achieve better results and report higher job satisfaction.

Google

• one of the most public proselytizers of how studying workers can transform productivity — became focused on building the perfect team.
• the tech giant has spent millions of dollars measuring nearly every aspect of its employees’ lives.
• they started Project Aristotle.

Project Aristotle

After looking at over a hundred groups for more than a year, Project Aristotle researchers concluded that understanding and influencing group norms were the keys to improving Google’s teams.

what are good charactaristics of good team.

• research on psychological safety pointed to particular norms that are vital to success.
• Google’s data indicated that psychological safety, more than anything else, was critical to making a team work.
  1. how teammates treated one another,The right norms, in other words, could raise a group’s collective intelligence
  2. social sensitivity, good teams all were skilled at intuiting how others felt based on their tone of voice, their expressions and other nonverbal cues.
  3. they keep the goal of the conversation in mind when they are at work.
  4. they take their turn and give others turn to speak.
  5. they don’t gossip.
• Other behaviors that seemed important:
  1. making sure teams had clear goals.
  2. creating a culture of dependability.
  3. taking responsibility.