REXBURG—Productivity will be the highlight for the next Rexburg Area Chamber of Commerce Women in Business and Leadership forum at Headwaters Construction on July 7 at 7 p.m.
“It's a delightful gathering of women who have drive and purpose, and they're striving to become productive and effective members of our community,” said Gaylynn Bean, a visiting faculty in the Communications Department at BYU-Idaho and the next forum speaker.
Bean will speak about the synergy surge of productivity. She said synergy is about components coming together to create an even better product. In her group dynamics class, the students explore what makes effective collaboration and teams.
In 2012, Google instituted a research project called Project Aristotle where they studied hundreds of teams to decide what made the most productive teams, Bean said.
“What Google found in their research study, that it wasn't putting all of the most talented people on a team that created the best productivity,” Bean said. “They came up with five characteristics of the most highly productive teams.”
In the forum, Bean will focus on five characteristics: psychological safety, consistent structure and clarity, dependability, meaning and impact.
Psychological safety helps a team feel confident to share their ideas or admit their errors. These teams can share and create together, Bean said.
Business leaders can create a quality and valued team in how they are viewed. Each of these characteristics in practice can create a quality team.
“So, one researcher suggested that members reliably complete quality work on time if they are seen and valued as dependable workers,” Bean said.
During the forum Bean will go more in depth on the five characteristics of effective teams to create synergy in any business or community.
“When we consider the importance of psychological safety and dependability, structure and clarity, meaning and impact, it absolutely applies to effective families,” Bean said. “And I love that BYU-Idaho fosters that feeling in our university community.”
To become a member or attend the monthly forums go to rexburgchamber.org. The forum will be located at 900 Jet Stream Dr. in Rexburg from 7 to 8:30 p.m.