Creating Great Teams

Step 2: Run a Trial

After you determine that you and your organization fulfill the prerequisites for self-selection, the next step is to run a trial self-selection event to become familiar with the process and mitigate risks by anticipating and addressing them in a smaller context. A trial in this sense is a scaled-down self-selection with fifteen to twenty people (or two to four teams), which will give you a lot of information at little cost. (If your self-selection involves fewer than thirty people, your life will be easier, and there’s no need to run a trial first. You can go directly to Step 4 .)

We opted to carry out a trial self-selection event at one of our satellite offices, which gave us a more controlled environment and fewer people ...