Team Management
Team management is the crux of building a high performing team, but it works best when you let science, data and psychology guide you.
We've built a collection of team management courses, tips, techniques, and coaching programs to help you inspire and guide your team to achieve crazy big goals.
Team management: The ultimate guide to managing calmly for happy, productive teams
Calm team management should be an all-the-time thing, not just during a crisis.On November 8, 2018, project management software Basecamp went down for almost five hours—the company’s largest outage in a decade. But instead of losing their heads, co-founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson saw it as a “stress test” of the very thing they promote in their book, It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, and had been practicing all along: calm work.
How to prepare for the future of work
The phrase “future of work” is enough to spark fear in the hearts of employer and employee alike.
How to make a performance management process that works (in the future of work)
Performance management and performance appraisals are often used interchangeably in meetings, but they couldn't be further apart. If you're trying to figure out the difference, this article will put the glaring differences into perspective for you.
Employee relations impact on engagement and staff retention
With the current financial climate resulting in budget cuts, organizations can't afford to neglect employee relations. Creating a positive workplace culture can result in happy employees. And satisfied workers perform better and show more employee loyalty.
Why is team building important?
There are explicit and implicit reasons for why team building is important. Let’s start with some of the explicit, more financial ones.
Communication is key: Unlock your team’s communication style
Good communication has nothing to do with quantity. A lot of us have been told to “over communicate” as of late and the result is a lot of “zoomed out” people stressed by the overwhelming amount of internal talking that’s happening.
What is a bias for action (and how do you build it)?
Many times throughout your career, or even your life, you might find yourself in analysis paralysis asking the question, “Should I do something about this?”
What is racism in the workplace and how does it show up?
Let’s talk about racism in the workplace.
Want to keep your team more engaged and feeling appreciated? This is what you gotta do.
Good team culture and engaged employees aren’t just nice to have: a healthy, engaged team has proven links to a business’ profitability, productivity, retention rates, investment opportunities, attracting great employees, absenteeism and even health and safety. A company is only as good as the people in it, so it makes sense for entrepreneurs to invest in engaging their team from day one. Is your team in need of a little TLC? We’ve collated the best advice on how to make them feel appreciated:
The link between leadership and culture
You can’t build company culture from scratch. It’s an asset built over time, by values and behaviors percolating down through the entire organization. No matter how many fancy PowerPoints you make or catchy slogans you paint on the office walls, it simply can’t be forced.
The double-edged sword that is Travis Kalanick: Unraveling the culture that rocked Uber
Travis Kalanick, founder and (former) CEO of the ultimate disrupter Uber, is gone. Ousted. Kaput.
Hire for attitude: what this means and why it works so well
You may have heard the phrase “hire for attitude, train for skill” but what does that actually look like in reality?
How to build a successful team: Six core approaches
While a good portion of work does get done in teams these days, there has been academic research that a lot of managers simply fall back on the superstars of a team, give them the work of other people, and essentially burn them out.
What is the human relations theory (and why should you care)?
Imagine that you're an employee of Company A.