Sherry Bevan’s Post

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Hi, it's Sherry. And today I wanted to share something that I am actually going to show in the Team Need Incubator. But I wanted to talk about this though because it came up in some discussions I've been having recently. Very often what we find in a team, hopefully you've got a real mixture of people. You're going to have some people who are perhaps very detailed, Some people are more bigger picture strategic thinking. You're likely to have some people who are reflective. People who are introverted and and need to perhaps more encouragement to actually speak up. You're gonna have some people who you know are very extroverted and really happy to share their ideas. And sometimes what happens in a team when you've got that mixture of extrovert versus introvert? So the extroverts tend to talk, then think, or they're doing their thinking as they talk, they think out loud, whereas the introverts tend to think and then talk. But often what happens in a team when you're trying to bring together some ideas or figure out the best way of approaching something, the people who do the talking and thinking out loud, their ideas. Drown out the reflective thinkers ideas which don't even ever get articulated. So one of the things I show in the team lead or will be showing in the team Leader Incubator is how to get everybody's voice heard so that everybody feels valued and that their ideas are just as important and just as valuable to listen to as everybody else is. So I'm a big believer in doing silent thinking and silent ideation now for those people who are better at. Thinking out loud and talking to to generate their own ideas. This might not be such a great technique for them, but it does mean you do get to hear the quieter persons ideas. And sometimes what happens in a group is one person will come up with an idea and someone say, Oh yeah, I love that. That's great. And then you go off down that that tangent down that Warren, and you spend all this time thinking about that particular idea and somebody over here might have had an even better. Idea but you never even got to here because you all jump on there is that group think. Thing that we all tend to fall into and start thinking about that particular idea. So couple of things you could do or a couple of ways that you can do this if you're in the room with people get a bunch of post it notes or you know, pieces of paperwork just as well and get everybody pose the question. How might we resolve this problem? How might we improve the way we do this? How might we in and how might is important because it opens up the mind to possibilities and. Is not saying that there's you're definitely going to find the right answer, but how might we fix this problem and then get everybody to write down their ideas? Give them a few minutes thinking time. To write down their ideas on post it notes or pieces of paper on a sheet of paper. If you're doing this virtually and we're using something like Miro or. I've forgotten the name of the other products that I've used. If you're using something like that, then get people to write it on, you know, post it notes on, on a whiteboard, you know, on an online whiteboard. And then give people a few minutes to do that. And then once it seems like people have run out of steam, have run out of ideas, then you can start to look at all of the ideas together. And then you can on a mirror board. What I like to do is once all the post it notes are there and we're looking for some key ideas, I might get people to either vote on the thoughts of being put up on the board, either using the voting function or putting, you know, an emoji next to the post it notes and giving them a limit of like you can vote for three. If there's 20 ideas, you know, vote for three. Or the other way you can do it is to get people to move the post it notes around. So. Let's do this. Maybe this might work. Definitely not. And then get them to move it into three different columns. And you can do the same on a physical whiteboard if you're working in the room with people. This means that you get all of the ideas out, and when you get all of the ideas out, it means you're better able to build on an idea. It means you don't miss the ideas, and it also means that everybody's voice gets heard because everybody's gonna have a different perspective on things and becoming at it from a different point of view. So I think that's one of the things that's really important to make sure that everybody feels heard and feels valued. And it's one of the ways you start to build that trust and you start to build that psychological safety, which is really important when you're trying to. Build a high performing team. So hopefully that's been useful today. Let me know your thoughts. I'd love to hear how you make sure that everybody's voice gets heard and everybody feels valued. Lots of different ways of doing it. This is just one technique that I'm sharing with you today. Be back, talk to you soon.