Creating a High Performing Team Culture

Resources to help you create a culture of teamwork through collaboration, constructive conflict and trust.

Article:  What Google Learned from it’s Quest to Build the Perfect Team - NY Times

Highlights the need for psychological safety in the workforce. Which enables indivdiuals within a team be open to being vulnerable and to take personal risks, this helps your organization grow. 

Ted Talk:  Margaret Heffernan: Forget the pecking order at work

To this day, this remains one of my favourite TEDTalks. Highlighting that strong organizations are filled with collaborators not superstars. Allowing organizations to build social capital, that grows the more you use it.

Ted Talk: Frances Frei: How to build (and rebuild) trust

Showcases three key components of trust  which are  being Authentic, having rigor in your logic, and empathy.  When these three things are working, there is great trust, when they wabble… trust is threatened.

Podcast Episode: The Talent Angle with Scott Engler - Cracking the Culture Code with Daniel Coyle

It highlights some little things we can do to create better social interaction.  Examples include:

• The willingness to be vulnerable. 

• How to ensure everyone is a part of the team through everyone being active in a meeting.  

• Asking simple questions.

• Sending simple emails.  

• How conflict can move us forward.

Book:  The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Highlights the root causes of politics and dysfunctions within a team.  It all starts with the foundation of having trust.