HOW TO USE THIS PUBLICATION
While each highly effective team construct is important, your dashboard results will point toward priorities for your team. Often, Cooperative Extension teams have higher scores in the Meaning and Impact areas. If this is indicated on your dashboard, the first three constructs will be the primary areas to focus on in the order of importance as indicated by Google’s “Project Aristotle.” For example, if Psychological Safety and Dependability scores are lower, first discover how to support the former inside this publication and/or through consultation. Each section features suggested action items, real world examples, and individual and team ideas to support growth in each construct.
SOME PETER DRUCKER AND FAMILIAR MODELS
“Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.” – Peter Drucker
At times, we can all feel a bit intimidated by the impossibility of molding a group into a cohesive team. Let’s unpack the wisdom in the Peter Drucker quote. Friction occurs when people don’t understand one another. Confusion happens as a result of poor communication. Underperformance ha ppens when people aren’t engaged.
The thing to keep in mind is that these things “happen naturally” when we come together to collaborate. With everyone’s leadership, these things can be overcome.
Friction fades when we seek to understand others before being understood ourselves
Confusion fades as we live out our core values by aligning what we say and do
Underperformance fades and engagement increases as we discover our alignment with one another alongside organizational values
These are far from new. The issues Peter Drucker describes have also been addressed in Psychologist Bruce Tuckman’s “ Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing ” model, Abraham Maslow’s “ Hierarchy of Needs ” and “ The Five Dysfunctions of a Team ” by Patrick Lencioni, among others. This article - The Growth of Teams: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs meets Lencioni’s Team Model - blends two of these familiar models. We recommend that you review the above resources. First, however, we'll focus on bringing your team together using the constructs contained in Google's "Project Aristotle," which revealed key aspects of highly effective teams.
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” - Aristotle
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