Every Team Has a Temperature: What we repeatedly experience becomes what we learn to call normal. Every person in a team is part of the environment everyone else is working within. Leaders have significant influence over the conditions, but much of what shapes a team happens in the ordinary interactions between us.

Last Friday, I sat in a room full of people from businesses and organisations across South East Melbourne at a BNI Mega Chapter meeting of approximately 330 people and something clicked for me. The values were everywhere.

There is so much opportunity in what AI can give us. The productivity opportunity is very real. But what happens when we no longer need another human to get the work done?

Here’s a useful team diagnostic for you. Disappear for four weeks. You receive no calls, emails, quick questions or simple “just checking with you first’ messages so you can take a real break. What is happening in your team while you are away?

In these current economic times where sales are more important than ever, I’m seeing sales systems that rely on a few people carrying everything. And when sales sits on individuals, the consequences are subtle… but they build.