Using psychology to boost team performance

5 minutes

Knowing how people think and act, alone or in groups, is a powerful compass for engineering leaders. Using this compass can help leaders better guide their teams to success.

In 2012 Google launched Project Aristotle which looked at 180 teams and 37,000 workers over two years to understand what makes engineering teams successful. 

Their findings were unexpected. They discovered that high-performing teams depended on something other than the team’s mix of personalities, skills, or how it was organized. Instead, they found that the key to a team’s high performance is psychological safety. The term psychological safety means “a team climate characterized by interpersonal trust and mutual respect.”

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