What Makes a Great Performing Workplace?

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What Does Make A Great Workplace?

When asked the question “what makes a great workplace’ many people respond that a great workplace is created by hiring great people and having a great leader and creating a great ‘company culture”.

Google is a busy business and to stay on top of their game they seek to hire, retain and support the best talent they can find. 

Back in 2013 we heard from Google’s then VP of People Operations, Laszlo Bock that Google was dropping their famed hiring practices including abandoning their practice of only recruiting graduates from specific schools and their brainteaser questions, both of which they found irrelevant to employee performance success. 

From their research Google learned the value of expanding their hiring practices. If you are interested in reading more about Google’s hiring process you can check out this 2016 article in the Business Insider Google’s HR boss explains the company’s 4 rules for hiring the best employees

Google has also been busy researching what contributes to supporting a high performing team. In a project tilted Project Aristotle – a tribute to Aristotle’s quote, “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” (as the Google researchers believed employees can do more working together than alone) – the goal was to answer the question:

“What makes a team effective at Google?” In a post entitled Understanding Team Effectiveness Google’s famous analytics were used pinpoint some elements that made a Google team effective. 

In Part two  I’ll cover the 5 Traits of High Performing Teams and Measuring Psychological Safety 

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