Dive Brief:
- Has Google found the magic bullet when it comes to helping its people succeed? Yes, it believes it has, according to an article at The Huffington Post
- This week, Google released the results of two years' worth of extensive (200, the article says) interviews with the Google workforce. In addition, it analyzed various attributes and skills exhibited by different Google teams.
- Simply stated, the company found that people work best when they "trust their coworkers and feel like they can take risks, depend on one another and understand the team's goals," writes Emily Peck, executive business and technology editor at The Huffington Post.
Dive Insight:
"This research gives a language to the things that I think are not necessarily rocket science but creates a structure to talk," Google spokeswoman Roya Soleimani told The Huffington Post.
Google's no-longer-secret sauce comes down to five "dynamics," namely psychological safety, dependability, structure & clarity, meaning and impact.
"We were pretty confident that we'd find the perfect mix of individual traits and skills necessary for a stellar team -- take one Rhodes Scholar, two extroverts, one engineer who rocks at AngularJS, and a PhD. Voila. Dream team assembled, right?" Juliai Rozovsky, an analyst in the Google's people operations department, blogged. "We were dead wrong. Who is on a team matters less than how the team members interact, structure their work, and view their contributions."
HR leaders searching for details of Google's secrets to success can now access them at Google's new website, re:Work.
