Preamble:

You are the project manager and team leader of a team selected to build a website that educates people on Holistic medicine and remedies.

With this in mind, review the $2016$studies $$What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team$$ by Charles Duhigg and the $2012$study$,$The New Science of Building Great Teams$$ by Sandy Pentland.

$-$What are your takeaways from these discussions?

$-$Do they make you reflect on the communication and contribution levels within your existing team?

$-$What do you think is the root cause of why certain people are less engaged than others and how can you and address the issue?

Consider the following:

$*$Are people trying to contribute and being ignored or cut off $$either by you or by other team members?

$*$Do they communicate only with one or a few other team members, maybe because the group consists of cliques?

$*$Do you do most of the talking at meetings without giving others enough space to participate?

$*$Are you able to show vulnerability and signal to others that it is OK to fail? To get to the root cause of the team$$s behavior, ask yourself $$why$.$

$*$Why is someone holding back? Why are they being interrupted?

$*$Why are they not collaborating?

$*$Finally$,$look at what you can do to create psychological safety and raise energy and engagement levels.

Your answer must be at least $7$paragraphs$.$ Cite $3$references$.$

$**$Be thorough in your answers and relate them to your project team.