Daria, a former Chief People Officer, says most teams fail because they lack a clear shared purpose, even with smart people and regular meetings. Her research shows thinking through a problem before using AI keeps your brain engaged, while asking AI first leads to rapid disengagement. Real team-building, she argues, matters more than ever.
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What if the reason teams in your organization are not working is because they don't even understand why they've been put together?
We use the word team way too often. We overuse the word team. Most of organizational units are not teams.
You have smart people, regular meetings, there's a common Slack channel. It seems to be that they're moving in the right direction, but still nothing clicks. It's not because they're not capable, but it is because their why is not clear. This is Daria. former Chief People Officer and author of the award-winning Clicking.
She's built high-performing teams across continents, led through mergers, AI, different crises, and she says, if you are the leader, if you're leading a team, we don't need more heroic leaders, we need more empowered teams. So you don't need to save the world.
In a world where AI is doing all the work, where AI is doing a lot of heavy lifting for us, there is research, your brain on ChatGPT, that tells us that if we think it first and give it to AI, our brain stays engaged.
But if we ask AI first and then try to edit and analyze that, our brain becomes disengaged far more quickly.
The most human thing that you can still do is to build a team. Let's talk, what does it take for human beings to click together? Let's dive in.