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Best Teams
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Best Teams

by Marc Woods
October 2025
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
5h 34m
English
Capstone
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13The Impact of Inclusion on High-Performing Teams

Inclusion naturally follows on from psychological safety, because you can't have one without the other. It is a crucial attribute for creating a supportive culture and, therefore, for developing a high-performing team. If you encounter anyone who thinks of inclusion as a ‘buzzword’ that has little value, I suggest you ask them the following questions.

Why would an organisation wish to have access to less than the full amount of human talent that could be at its disposal? Shouldn't organisations want to access the very best and brightest, who can leverage their expertise in service of organisational outcomes?

These are the questions high-performing teams will have considered and built an inclusive ...

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