Speaker
Kyle’s primary focus has been helping development teams be effective and enjoy their work. He has over twenty-five years of experience building teams for software development or other technology delivery. Kyle has been with Insight for the last eight years working in Team coaching and training. Additionally, he has held or practiced roles including Business Analyst, Quality Assurance, User Experience Architect, Agile Manager, Project Manager, and Program Manager. Kyle has led Conference sessions at conferences including Agile & Beyond in Detroit, Global Scum Symposium in Portland OR, Southern Fried Agile in Charlotte, Agile Midwest in Saint Louis, TriAgile in Raleigh, Music City Tech in Nashville, CincyDeliver in Cincinnati, and Agile Arizona in Phoenix.
Title: "Not all teams are created equal – the Importance of Building Collective Intelligence on our teams”
DESCRIPTION
We have created a variety of tests and tools that attempt to measure human intelligence under the belief that people have varying levels of intelligence. But, what about teams? Do they have varying degrees of Collective Intelligence? And if they do have varying levels of intelligence, what can we do as leaders to foster our teams Collective Intelligence?
In this session we will be looking at some Social Psychology studies that address those questions. Studies that show that well-formed teams can consistently make better decisions while addressing a variety of different problems. Studies that show some of our commonly held beliefs about what will make an effective team are not correct and that some of the factors that make an intelligent team are quite surprising.
LEARNING POINTS
- Understand that teams have different levels of Collective Intelligence
- Ability to identify faulty thinking used to form teams
- Ability to identify and apply principles to help teams increase their effectiveness