How to fight the groupthink that happens when we work virtually
Curated from: fastcompany.com
Ideas, facts & insights covering these topics:
5 ideas
Ā·12 reads
Explore the World's Best Ideas
Join today and uncover 100+ curated journeys from 50+ topics. Unlock access to our mobile app with extensive features.
GroupThinking And Our Workplace
Groupthink, or decision by committee, is when conformity to existing rules and processes rules the decision making, ensuring that there is little or no innovation coming out of the workplace.
Existing norms, set patterns and well-trodden paths are given precedence over innovation and risk-taking.
0
6 reads
ZoomThink: The Virtual Groupthink phenomenon
As 2020 shifted the workplace to a virtual setting, group thinking has gotten worse, where bosses dominate the conversation, foster complacency and rush towards closure, gravitating towards the simplest/easiest and least cognitively taxing decision.
0
2 reads
Reasons Virtual Communication Worsens GroupThink
- Zoom meetings are rushed, exhausting and not meant to foster innovation. Zoom burnout is real and the meetings feel burdensome, daunting and overwhelming if one is staring at the screen all day.
- We develop blindspots towards other peoples problems, as our minds are burdened with too much information. This results in miscommunication and wrong assumptions.
- Creativity, equality, and diversity of opinion are shunned in the favor of a few people who dominate the virtual conversation.
0
1 read
How To Stop Online GroupThink
- Be prepared with your contribution.
- Rotate the hosts in each meeting, adding diversity and character to otherwise monotonous meetings.
- Encourage the quiet colleagues to speak, or contribute later via email or IM.
- Ensure that there are various online tools and a variety of options for others to contribute and drive engagement. This includes regular phone calls and whiteboard sessions.
0
2 reads
How To Stop Online GroupThink
- Be prepared with your contribution.
- Rotate the hosts in each meeting, adding diversity and character to otherwise monotonous meetings.
- Encourage the quiet colleagues to speak, or contribute later via email or IM.
- Ensure that there are various online tools and a variety of options for others to contribute and drive engagement. This includes regular phone calls and whiteboard sessions.
0
1 read
IDEAS CURATED BY
Vikram Arora's ideas are part of this journey:
Learn more about remotework with this collection
How to align stakeholders
Best practices in product management leadership
How to create value together
Related collections
Similar ideas
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
ā
100+ Learning Journeys
ā
Access to 200,000+ ideas
ā
Access to the mobile app
ā
Unlimited idea saving
ā
ā
Unlimited history
ā
ā
Unlimited listening to ideas
ā
ā
Downloading & offline access
ā
ā
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates