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What the Maker Faire’s hackers and hula hoopers can teach us about building diverse teams

February 22, 2021
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What the Maker Faire’s hackers and hula hoopers can teach us about building diverse teams
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Newswise — In an age of Zoom fatigue, it may be tempting to ditch those silly team-building activities that elicit eye-rolls and groans at many a staff meeting.

Yet a focus on pure efficiency may be short-sighted, especially if your team or organization is struggling to find a collective purpose. It turns out that emotion sharing—and not just information sharing—is a powerful yet often-overlooked part of building a group identity.

That’s a key takeaway from an in-depth study of one of the most eclectic groups of all: the Maker movement, a loose collective that began with electronics hackers and hobbyists and grew to include people with seemingly nothing in common—crafters and physicists, bakers and blacksmiths, 3D-printing whizzes, and do-it-yourselfers of all stripes.

“Emotional contagion”

Pre-pandemic, Maker Faire gatherings around the world attracted…

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