A Spark Of Awareness 90. Solving The Team Culture Map Puzzle - with Sophie and Jen Donahoe
We say it is essential to build diverse teams for innovation, creativity, and performance. Diversity of individuals sounds great on paper, but how do we make it work as a team in practice? How do you make people who avoid confrontation collaborate with confrontational people? How do you lead a team in an egalitarian way while most of what they've known is hierarchical leadership?
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In this episode, we deconstruct with Jen Donahoe (Game Marketing and Growth Leader, co-host for Deconstructor Of Fun) The Culture Map book by Erin Meyer, and how we applied the 8 cultural dimensions with teams in our career:
Communicating: Low vs High Context
Evaluating: Direct negative feedback vs Indirect negative feedback
Persuading: Principles- first or Applications-first
Leading: Egalitarian or Hierarchical
Deciding: Consensual or Top-Down
Trusting: Task-based or Relationship-based
Disagreeing: confrontational or non-confrontational
Scheduling: Linear or Flexible Time
No matter where you live or grew up, you need to be intentional about where you stand on the cultural spectrum as a leader and communicate it well to your team. It is not about cultural differences only, but also personality and cognitive differences where the same frameworks apply!
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