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and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group/Recommended_Reading *--Joel Aufrecht* Team Practices Group Wikimedia Foundation On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Anne Gomez <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for sharing this, Kevin. I was thinking about sharing it more > widely last week, but didn't get a chance. > > Is there somewhere that TPG (or anyone) has accumulated links about things > like this besides the archives of this mailing list? > > Anne > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Mukunda Modell <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> psychological safety — a group culture that the Harvard Business School >>> professor Amy Edmondson defines as a ‘‘shared belief held by members of a >>> team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking.’’ Psychological >>> safety is ‘‘a sense of confidence that the team will not embarrass, reject >>> or punish someone for speaking up,’’ Edmondson wrote in a study >>> published in 1999 >>> <http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?sid=e55fd191-97da-4b52-a54d-d1ae6abb0a6e%40sessionmgr111&vid=1&hid=115&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=2003235&db=bth>. >>> ‘‘It describes a team climate characterized by interpersonal trust and >>> mutual respect in which people are comfortable being themselves.’’ >> >> >> This is precisely why I like being a part of #releng, and I think it does >> indeed contribute quite a bit to working effectively "#together." >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Subramanya Sastry < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I read that article as well .. To me, this section stood out: >>> >>> *"What Project Aristotle has taught people within Google is that no one >>> wants to put on a ‘‘work face’’ when they get to the office. No one wants >>> to leave part of their personality and inner life at home. But to be fully >>> present at work, to feel ‘‘psychologically safe,’’ we must know that we can >>> be free enough, sometimes, to share the things that scare us without fear >>> of recriminations. We must be able to talk about what is messy or sad, to >>> have hard conversations with colleagues who are driving us crazy. We can’t >>> be focused just on efficiency"* >>> >>> >>> On 02/26/2016 12:20 PM, Kevin Smith wrote: >>> >>> Forwarding this to a wider list, since I think it's of interest to >>> anyone who works with teams. >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Kristen Lans wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html> >>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html >>>> - >>> >>> >>> It's a pretty long article, so for those who are short on time, here is >>> my very very abbreviated tl;dr: >>> >>> Google did a bunch of research to try go figure out why some teams are >>> effective and others are not. >>> >>> "First, on the good teams, members spoke in roughly the same proportion, >>> a phenomenon the researchers referred to as 'equality in distribution of >>> conversational turn-taking.' " Note that there are a number of styles to >>> achieve this, including talking over each other, but fairly and with >>> consent. >>> >>> "Second, the good teams all had high ‘‘average social sensitivity’’ — a >>> fancy way of saying they were skilled at intuiting how others felt based on >>> their tone of voice, their expressions and other nonverbal cues." >>> >>> "But Google’s data indicated that psychological safety, more than >>> anything else, was critical to making a team work." >>> >>> >>> Kevin Smith >>> Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> teampractices mailing >>> [email protected]https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> teampractices mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> teampractices mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices >> >> > > > -- > *Anne Gomez* // Product Manager, Fundraising & Reading > https://wikimediafoundation.org/ > > > *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate > <http://donate.wikimedia.org>. * > > > > _______________________________________________ > teampractices mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices > >
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