Help Your Team Be More Effective (the Google Way)

(This is a short note about something I found useful in my role as a manager and coach at 9LivesData.)

Project Aristotle was a research project conducted by Google. The goal of the project was to find what attributes of a team contributed the most to it’s effectiveness.

The project found that the key factors of team effectiveness are:

1. Psychological safety
2. Dependability
3. Structure & clarity
4. Meaning of work
5. Impact of work

More information:

• New York Times “What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team”
  • “Google’s intense data collection and number crunching have led it to the conclusions that [in] the best teams, members listen to one another and show sensitivity to feelings and needs“
• Amy Edmondson TEDx talk “Building a psychologically safe workplace”
  • psychological safety is needed if we have uncertainty and interdependence
  • frame the work as a learning problem, not an execution problem
• Anita Woolley on Collective Intelligence in Human Groups
• Paweł Brodziński‘s lightning talk about collective intelligence