The Deep Feedback Movement
RESEARCH ON TEAMS
Action: Design teams that are four to six and no more than 10 people.
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Main Claim: The ideal team size is 4 - 6 people and no more than 10 people. Performance problems and interpersonal friction increase exponentially as team size increases.
Action: Teams with high psychological safety perform better. To foster psychological safety:
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Frame work as a learning problem, not an execution problem.
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Acknowledge your own fallibility.
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Model curiosity and ask lots of questions.
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Call attention to your mistakes - share them with your team.
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Ask for help.
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Main Claim: Individuals on teams with high psychological safety perform better. Psychological safety is a shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking.