How Much Time Do You Spend Observing Your Team?

You Might Be Surprised At What You Find

How much time do you spend observing your teams?

A couple of weeks ago, I ran two team building sessions in close succession to one another > They couldn't have been more different.

One was a startup and the other a team inside of a tech giant.

One team was engaged - listening attentively and reacting to each others' models and the stories that were revealed. Support was abounding.

The other was disengaged - distracted and less attentive to each other's models and the stories being shared. Their support was lacking, and there was a noticeable detachment.

You can learn a lot when you are in a position to observe.

How do you think your team would react to one another?

Try this out 🤔
▶ Delegate an activity for someone else to run, something where everyone needs to share their input, possibly a brainstorm or something similar.

👀 Participate yourself, but spend your time also paying attention to how people are interacting. Not just the speaker but the team as a whole.

The idea here isn't to spy or call people out (Don't do that!)

Instead, look and listen. 👀

Are people attentive? Supportive? Do they build off of one another or do they take their turn and shut down?

You'll be able to sense and feel the engagement of the group. Is it what you expected?

Awareness is a first step to developing more engaged teams.

The un-attentive team… was the startup and the founder/CEO was the least engaged in the group.

The behavior modeled is the behavior adopted.

Contact us today to see how your team reacts to each other in a creative team building environment.