They’re always quiet in meetings.
They don’t speak up.
When being engaged to work with team dynamics, I often find these two statements in the brief.
Do you have ‘quiet’ people on your team?
Do some people rarely speak up?
Because of bias, beliefs, and confirming behaviour, the dynamics of a team are never quite right:
· context and history aren’t taken into consideration.
· meeting management triggers uncomfortableness around the table.
· communication preferences are ignored.
As leaders (that’s all of us in the workplace), please:
· Take time to discover rather than judging.
· Take in the details and data rather than consume all the oxygen in the room.
· Clarify and confirm someone’s motivational drivers by asking them.
· Please enquire, be curious, and bite your tongue.
Alternatively, you and your team can test drive the Core Strengths assessment, Strength Deployment Inventory and you’ll have these details at your fingertips.
Imagine knowing why some people are quiet in meetings whilst others do all the talking … and what to do about it.