What is Team Intelligence and How to Manage It

Team intelligence, a crucial aspect of successful collaboration, often remains underappreciated. Unravel the concept, its significance, and the art of managing it to foster a thriving, synergistic work environment.

Team intelligence explores the concept of team unity across all aspects of team dynamics and uncovers the keys to optimal performance

Collective intelligence helps create organizational trust, access diversity of thought, and ultimately the basic human right to be heard.

• When you place an intentional focus on team intelligence, you realize benefits across teams, through to clients
• An understanding of employee’s style, strengths, and development needs
• Creates accountability for achieving higher standards of team behaviors and delivery of work
• Drives sustained business performance through improved communications

Crack the code on employee engagement and retention

Establish open channels of communication within your team

• Frequent check-ins to seek everyone’s opinions can help build all team members’ confidence and comfort level
• Intentional and genuine acts can go a long way in fostering a healthy, engaged team

Frequent and genuine recognition

Appreciation plays a major role in reducing burnout, boosting morale, and greatly impacting employee retention by increasing employee satisfaction

• Employees who receive regular praise and recognition tend to be more connected to their coworkers and have a positive impact on team chemistry

Alignment to the common goal

The common goal should be clear and absorbed by all -regularly

• One tip to help with reinforcing alignment at the team level is to start each meeting with a reminder of the goal for that meeting
• Weaving in constant reminders will reinforce the goal of supporting a shared vision

Know your team’s weaknesses

For every strength a team has, there is equal weakness. Identifying and addressing weaknesses on your team leads to a stronger, more successful unit.

• Take time to understand individuals’ strengths and weaknesses and develop a strategy to overcome them.

Create a psychologically safe atmosphere

People are happiest and most productive when they have a sense of psychological safety

• To cultivate a culture of transparency and support, it is imperative that all team members feel they can openly express their opinions
• Frame the work as a learning problem, not an execution problem
• Acknowledge your fallibility
• Model curiosity

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