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In this blog, we explore how to build positive psychological team ownership by focusing on the four enablers: The team mission, Celebrating achievements, Working in small steps, Seeing failure as learning, Giving the team autonomy and Ownership, Celebrating outward, A written team agreement, Developing a positive self-image, Promoting ongoing learning, and Developing a psychologically safe team environment. By implementing these ten actionable steps, team members can develop collective psychological ownership, which can significantly increase their Motivation, Creativity, Compliance, and Loyalty to the team and its work.

Psychological ownership is a feeling that one has ownership responsibility for something. Individuals that develop psychological ownership may or may not feel an actual product or tangible ownership – it does not matter. It is all about ownership responsibility. Now the problem is not psychological ownership. It is with how the individual who possesses a sense of ownership responsibility reacts and whether they feel they share that sense of ownership responsibility with the team. Psychological ownership within the team can be manifested as the ownership of a product or solution—the ownership of a plan, a mission, and an idea or option, to name a few.