“We stay in our companies because we love working as a member of a team, and we leave them because we hate working in that team.” These are the findings of Lynda Gratton, Professor of management at London Business School. So how do you recruit and manage teams to fully involve staff and have them produce their best results? According to Gratton you need three things:
1. teams that are prepared to cooperate
2. teams with diverse make up (age, gender, background etc)
and most importantly
3. a mission or a question that is very exciting to the whole team.
Gratton recommends against running social, get-to-know each other sessions when introducing new teams. That way team members will just have time to find they don't like each other and don't get along. Better to give them a demanding and exciting task straight away so they are focussed on achieving the goal
Hear Gratton discuss her findings from research with 150 top business teams from companies like Goldman Sachs and Google on In Business: Team Spirit ∞
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