By investing in "Team Diversity and Team Performance - What the Research Evidence Shows," you will gain access to:

1. Understanding the Power of Diversity: Discover the research-backed evidence on how team diversity positively impacts team performance. Gain insights into the cognitive, social, and informational benefits that diverse teams bring.

2. Overcoming Challenges: Learn how to navigate the challenges associated with team diversity and turn them into opportunities for growth and innovation. Explore evidence-based strategies to address biases, foster inclusion, and create a collaborative team environment.

3. Enhancing Team Collaboration: Explore techniques to enhance team collaboration and leverage the unique perspectives and strengths that diverse team members bring. Discover strategies to promote effective communication, manage conflict, and build trust within diverse teams.

4. Leveraging Different Perspectives: Understand how to harness the power of different perspectives to drive innovation and creativity. Learn how to encourage diverse thinking, incorporate diverse viewpoints in decision-making, and stimulate fresh ideas within teams.

5. Inclusive Leadership: Develop inclusive leadership skills that promote a culture of diversity and inclusivity. Learn how to lead diverse teams effectively, create psychological safety, and foster a sense of belonging among team members.

'Successful teams are like rainforests, their diversity is their strength.'

What do you get?

• Help you understand the value and relevance of diversity in teams. The briefing can highlight how a diverse workforce with different skills, experiences and perspectives can bring more creativity, innovation and better problem solving to teams.

• Provide evidence-based explanations for how and why diversity impacts team performance. The research can give tangible reasons and examples of how diversity leads to better outcomes through explanations like information/decision-making perspective, resource complementarity, and creativity theories.

• Identify factors that moderate the diversity-performance relationship. The briefing can discuss things like strong team processes, psychological safety, inclusive culture and good leadership that can maximize the benefits of diversity.

• Offer suggestions for leveraging diversity effectively. Based on the research, the briefing can provide practical recommendations to help teams utilize diversity for improved outcomes. This could cover things like minimizing groupthink, encouraging knowledge sharing and open communication.

• Raise awareness of potential issues, pointing out challenges of diversity like social categorisation, bias and conflict that need to be mitigated for teams to reap the full benefits. This can help you be mindful of such risks.

• Stimulate meaningful discussion. The research and observations presented can generate good discussion points among the team to reflect on how they can apply the learnings to their own context and maximize the potential of their diverse workforce.

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