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• Share information about your personal work style and preferences. Encourage<br />
teammates to do the same.<br />
• Talk with teammates about their lives outside of work.<br />
• Clearly communicate the purpose of all meetings.<br />
• Don’t let team members talk negatively about other team members.<br />
BODY LANGUAGE<br />
• Open body posture.<br />
• Face all team members, don’t turn your back to members of the group.<br />
Share Decision-Making<br />
• Encourage questions<br />
• Ask for input, opinions, and feedback from your teammates.<br />
• Try not to interrupt others. Help others to step in when someone is interrupted<br />
and ensure his/her idea is heard.<br />
• Explain the reasoning behind your decisions.<br />
• Be sure to share when a team member contributes to a decision or a success.<br />
Be Confident, But Not Inflexible<br />
• Encourage the team to challenge you. But stick to your convictions and<br />
principles, and defend your view if you are not persuaded.<br />
• Manage team discussions. Prevent off-topic conversations during meetings.<br />
• Encourage teammates to take risks, and demonstrate risk-taking in your own<br />
work.<br />
• Don’t be afraid to show vulnerability; share failures and concerns with your<br />
teammates.<br />
Additional resources<br />
• High-Performing team needs psychological safety. Here is how to create it. L. Delizonna Harvard<br />
Business Review, 2017<br />
• Edmondson and Lei (2014). "Psychological Safety: The History, Renaissance, and Future of an<br />
Interpersonal Construct," Annual Review Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior.<br />
• Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy. A.<br />
Edmonson<br />
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