"Social Anxiety: People worry about other team members’ views of their ideas." One way of dealing with this problem is to do Anonymous Brainstorming https://ex

"Social Anxiety: People worry about other team members’ views of their ideas." One way of dealing with this problem is to do Anonymous Brainstorming https://extension.unr.edu/publication.aspx?PubID=2579 https://extension.unr.edu/publication.aspx?PubID=2579 The idea, in a nutshell, is that there is a facilitator. The members of the team do not meet in person. They send their ideas to the facilitator, who aggregates the ideas and sends the complete list out to the members of the team. This is intended to remove the social effects that might interfere with some of the team members participating fully, or other members dominating the process because of their perceived position in the hierarchy, or their better social skills. An advanced version of this involves rounds; everybody sends their ideas to the facilitator, the complete list goes out to everybody, the members critique or support some of the ideas, the facilitator adds the new input and sends the revised list back out to the team, and the process repeats (presumably until there is some agreement on the best idea(s), or everybody gets tired if doing it). My recollection is that this process can be very effective at problem solving, but it certainly isn't as quick as getting a bunch of people in a room to hash out some ideas.