Every Team Needs a Super-Facilitator

Companies do NOT need supermens, but super-teams, and for that they need super-facilitators: “Super-facilitators are architects of optimal group performance. They generate collective intelligence, or a group’s ability to reason, innovate, and solve problems.”

This is not an opinion but a fact:

“You might assume that brilliant teams are made up of brilliant individuals. The data says otherwise.”

Unlike artificial intelligence, which is sampled from the average, team intelligence is an emergent phenomenon that generates synergies:

“Collective intelligence doesn’t average people’s differences. It integrates them like the organs and limbs of a superorganism, each with its own specialty.”

Here’s the good news:

“One of the most important of these findings is that super-facilitating is a skill, not just a trait. That’s good news, because it means not only that people who are already natural super-facilitators can be identified and empowered but also that anybody can be trained to become one.“

That’s exactly what we do in our Data & AI Business Design Training courses: train business managers, product owners, AI experts, data engineers, and more to become (super) facilitators for data & AI teams and projects. So that they can then create a shared understanding of the business, users, and data in Data & AI Design Thinking workshops, because:

“To generate collective intelligence and harness its power, team members have to understand and believe in one another.“

Read more about why “Every Team Needs a Super-Facilitator”:

👉 https://hbr.org/2025/09/every-team-needs-a-super-facilitator