- Is your team made up of people with similar backgrounds and education?
- How does the team operate together? Do you have clash of ideas or is there always consensus?
- Is the team looking at the same problem in the same way or is there diversity of opinion?
- Is there a climate where teams can share ideas, solutions and mental processes?
There is a danger that teams are accidentally built to be quite homogeneous. This can lead to limited diversity view and opinion. If this is underpinned by climates that don’t embrace challenge and debate then teams can fall victim to ‘group think’.
We can develop workshops to support SMM’s
- Building shared mental models can support better decision making and interactions between team members
- Developing collaborative mental tools can provide a vocabulary that enables growth and evolution of thinking and ideas
- Diversity can uncover hidden brilliance in teams
Related: D-Model; Building Teams; Perspective; C-Model