5 KOMANDOS VALDYMO SĖKMĖS VEIKSNIAI

PROBLEMOS APRAŠYMAS | PROBLEM DESCRIPTION

What makes a team effective ? Huge research in Google revealed what is critical for successfull teamwork in practice. We were dead wrong. Who is on a team matters less than how the team members interact, structure their work, and view their contributions. This is needed for that magical algorithm.

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Komanda, Komandos valdymas | Resources , Resource management

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We learned that there are five key dynamics that set successful teams

Success factors

Essential to achieve

  1. Psychological safety

Team members feel sage to take risks and be vulnarable in front of each other

  1. Dependability

Team members get things done on time and meet high bar of excellence

  1. Structure & clarity

Team members have clear roles , plans, and goals.

  1. Meaning of work

Work is personally important to team members.

  1. Impact of work

Team members think their work matters and creates change.

OTHER KEY POINTS:

Psychological safety was far and away the most important of the five dynamics we found– it’s the underpinning of the other four. How could that be? Taking a risk around your team members seems simple. But remember the last time you were working on a project. Did you feel like you could ask what the goal was without the risk of sounding like you’re the only one out of the loop? Or did you opt for continuing without clarifying anything, in order to avoid being perceived as someone who is unaware?

Turns out, we’re all reluctant to engage in behaviors that could negatively influence how others perceive our competence, awareness, and positivity. Although this kind of self-protection is a natural strategy in the workplace, it is detrimental to effective teamwork. On the flip side, the safer team members feel with one another, the more likely they are to admit mistakes, to partner, and to take on new roles. And it affects pretty much every important dimension we look at for employees. Individuals on teams with higher psychological safety are less likely to leave Google, they’re more likely to harness the power of diverse ideas from their teammates, they bring in more revenue, and they’re rated as effective twice as often by executives.

Success factors

Five effectiveness pillars and questions to ask your team members

  1. Psychological safety

“If I make a mistake on our team, it is not held against me ?”

  1. Dependability

“When my teammates say they’ll do something, do they follow through with it ?”

  1. Structure & clarity

“Do our team has an effective decision-making process ?”

  1. Meaning of work

“Do the work I do for our team is meaningful to me ?”

  1. Impact of work

“I understand how our team’s work contributes to the organization’s goals ?”

ŠALTINIS | SOURCE

Google teams success model: https://rework.withgoogle.com/blog/five-keys-to-a-successful-google-team/

Google teams investigation: https://apnews.com/article/8c60341cc1da47e084b8e17e62e83c98

AUTORIUS | AUTHOR

Artūras Bučinskas