If you’re like most people working in an organization today, you’re probably on multiple teams at the same time. Most employees have multiple assignments and projects that they must constantly juggle and prioritize. In fact, research estimates that between 81% and 95% of employees around the world actively serve on multiple teams simultaneously.
Research: When Employees Work on Multiple Teams, Good Bosses Can Have Ripple Effects
In most organizations, it’s common to work on multiple teams at the same time. Juggling projects and tasks across teams can be stressful but new research shows that having a good manager on just one of those teams can have a positive effect on an employee’s performance on other teams. In fact, even if employees have a bad experience with a disempowering team leader in one of their teams, all is not lost, as long as the employees belong to other teams that are led by more empowering leaders. It’s good practice to make sure that team leaders have the skills to support and empower their team members by giving them as much autonomy as possible, for example, and asking for input when making key decisions. But if not all of your leaders have these skills, ensuring that every employee is influenced by at least one empowering team leader can compensate for ineffective leadership on other teams.