While renewing my Agile Scrum Product Owner Certification, I ran across The Core Protocols by Richard Kasperowski. Imagine studying the highest performing teams in the world, identifying what they do differently, and then distilling that into some core principles or protocols. This is basically what Kasperowski has done by basing this on the research below from Google and Harvard:
What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team (Published 2016)
Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups
The most important contributing factor to high performing teams is Psychological Safety. This means team members feel safe to take risks and be vulnerable in front of each other.
Check out The Core Protocols website that Richard Kasperowski keeps up to date. up to date.
Take the “Check Out” protocol for instance. This protocol gives individuals the freedom to determine if their time is better spent somewhere else. It also avoids having people on the meeting who are not engaged. This strikes me as a simple yet significant shift in culture that will help promote autonomy and encourage teammates to user their heads and engage when they are present physically or virtually.
I really appreciate adding this to my toolkit of how to build high performing teams, especially with how difficult it is to build a healthy culture with teams working remotely.
Ref:
Google Cloud BrandVoice: Safe Space: How Psychological Safety Can Make Your Team More Effective
*image credit: Dalle3
