What Submarines & Chickens Can Teach You About Teams

Many people believe that having the smartest people makes the best teams. Logically, it makes sense as the best people will enable you to do great things. But what if that wasn't the case? What if there was something else that makes up great teams?

During my career, I have been on projects surrounded by smart people, yet our achievements were mediocre. I have also been on teams with average people and we were a raving success! How could that be? What were we missing that made some teams so wildly successful, yet others were average? It was those questions that made me embark on my leadership journey to try and discover the secret to successful teams.

In this talk, we'll discuss what chickens and submarines can teach you about creating great teams. We'll go through some approaches you can take, some hard truths that we learnt along the way and lastly you will get some first-hand experiences from the trenches.

Transcript

1. SUBMARINES CHICKENS What and can teach you about teams @mauro_dasilva
2. THANKS THANKS
3. EMPOWERMENT PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY &
6. EMPOWERMENT EMPOWERMENT …the process of gaining freedom and power to do what you want
7. LUDICROUS
9. USS SANTE FE USS SANTE FE
10. COMPETENCE COMPETENCE
11. Do your job well COMPETENCE
12. CONTEXT
13. GUIDE YOU WHEN… GUIDE YOU WHEN…
14. COMMUNICATION
16. Empowerment is the act of letting people do what they want
17. Empowerment works when… COMMUNICATION COMPETENCE CONTEXT
18. Good leaders give good orders, but great leaders don't give any orders because they've built a team that doesn't need to be told what to do ” DAVID MARQUET DAVID MARQUET
20. CHICKENS! CHICKENS!
21. 6 6 6 6 Super Flock EXPERIMENT EXPERIMENT
22. Project Aristotle Project Aristotle
23. YEARS GOOGLE TEAMS ATTRIBUTES
24. PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY Shared feeling that it’s okay to be open & honest in a group setting
25. denies yourself & others LEARN
26. PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY SEEMS EASY, YET IT’S DECEPTIVELY HARD
27. WE EMBARKED ON A JOURNEY… WE EMBARKED ON A JOURNEY…
28. SEMPRE AVANTI Always Forward
29. WHAT CAN YOU DO? WHAT CAN YOU DO? ENCOURAGE SPEAKING
30. WHAT CAN YOU DO? WHAT CAN YOU DO? ADMIT YOU DON’T KNOW
31. WHAT CAN YOU DO? WHAT CAN YOU DO? ASK QUESTIONS
32. WHAT CAN YOU DO? WHAT CAN YOU DO? SPEAK ABOUT IT
33. Chickens are cold blooded killers!
34. Best teams ≠ smartest people
35. PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY MAKES TEAMS
36. MAKE YOUR TEAM THE TEAM IT CAN BE! @mauro_dasilva
37. @mauro_dasilva LINKS LINKS www.learningapprentice.com