🚀 Exploring Team Dynamics: The Challenge of Big Teams 🚀

As a passionate advocate for building super-teams, I want to shed light on a critical challenge that often arises in large team settings – the Bystander Effect.

🔍 The Bystander Effect: Unpacking the Issue

In sizable teams, individuals might find themselves hesitating to take action or contribute, assuming someone else will step in.

Everybody feels accountable, but nobody feels responsible for the whole. This is what permeates throughout society, the sense of belonging and community is lost, mainly due to dominance hierarchy.

In hierarchies, everybody wants to do just enough to avoid getting into trouble. Only around 5-10% of people are engaged to a significant degree.

This diffusion of responsibility can impede decision-making, hinder innovation, and impact overall team effectiveness.

💪 Empowering Each Team Member
Addressing the Bystander Effect involves cultivating a culture where every team member feels empowered to speak up, share ideas, and take initiative.

It’s about fostering a mindset that recognises the collective impact of individual actions i.e. coherence.

🌐 Building Super-Teams: A Collective Effort
I’ve witnessed the transformative power of addressing the Bystander Effect.

We can do this by instilling shared ownership. When organisations want to create a high performing team, they’re usually smaller and operate with more autonomy and agency.

Steve Jobs was an advocate of creating small disruptive teams at the edges, away from the pencil-pushers and bureaucrats.

Another way is to create an EOT-Employee Ownership Trust. Don’t see yourself as creating a business, think about creating an economic platform which will support a community.

Watch people feel a sense of ownership and a responsibility for the whole then.

Training team leaders in natural or eco-coaching and facilitation, and team members the importance of ecology-checks in decision-making also helps.

These are some of the skills required of high performing ‘Super-Teams’.

They are engaged in the pursuit of excellence, liberated from command and control thinking, trust each other, see themselves as intra-dependent and egalitarian.

🔗 Stay tuned for future posts where we’ll dive into other challenges faced by large teams. Let’s empower our teams to thrive! 💡

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Your thoughts and experiences on this topic are invaluable – share them below! 👇

-Murph 🍀