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Essential Component 4: Classroom Leadership

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Essential Component 4: Classroom Leadership

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http://bit.ly/FTNetwork4

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Essential Component 5: Organizational Skills

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Essential Component 5: Organizational Skills

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http://bit.ly/FTNetwork5

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http://bit.ly/Reflect9

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http://bit.ly/FTNetwork1

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Essential Component 2: Time for Teams to Meet

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Essential Component 2: Time for Teams to Meet

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http://bit.ly/FTNetwork2

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http://bit.ly/FTNetwork3

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Essential Component 6: Parent/Teacher Contact

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Essential Component 6: Parent/Teacher Contact

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http://bit.ly/FTNetwork6

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http://bit.ly/5HRGoogle

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Over the years, Google has embarked on countless quests, collected endless amounts of data, and spent millions trying to better understand its people. One of the company's most interesting initiatives, Project Aristotle, gathered several of Google's best and brightest to help the organization codify the secrets to team effectiveness.

Specifically, Google wanted to know why some teams excelled while others fell behind.

Before this study, like many other organizations, Google execs believed that building the best teams meant compiling the best people. It makes sense. The best engineer plus an MBA, throw in a PhD, and there you have it. The perfect team, right? In the words of Julia Rozovsky, Google's people analytics manager, "We were dead wrong."

Selected to lead the efforts was Abeer Dubey, Google's director of people analytics (HR). Eager to find the perfect mixture of skills, backgrounds, and traits to engineer super-teams, Dubey recruited statisticians, organizational psychologists, sociologists, engineers, and researchers to help solve the riddle. Included in this all-star lineup was Rozovsky.

Fast forward two years, and Project Aristotle has managed to study 180 Google teams, conduct 200-plus interviews, and analyze over 250 different team attributes. Unfortunately, though, there was still no clear pattern of characteristics that could be plugged into a dream-team generating algorithm.

As described in an article in The New York Times, it wasn't until Google started considering some intangibles that things began to fall into place.

"As they struggled to figure out what made a team successful, Rozovsky and her colleagues kept coming across research by psychologists and sociologists that focused on what are known as "group norms" - the traditions, behavioral standards, and unwritten rules that govern how teams function when they gather... Norms can be unspoken or openly acknowledged, but their influence is often profound."

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Google Spent 2 Years Studying 180 Teams. The Most Successful Ones Shared These 5 Traits

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Insights from Google's new study could forever change how teams are assembled.

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Essential Component 7: Student Recognition

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Essential Component 7: Student Recognition

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http://bit.ly/FTNetwork7