Team Performance
Dive into the ins-and-outs of team performance, including: How can coaches improve team performance? How to build and develop a high performance team, How to become team-oriented, and more.
This collection of expert guides and coaching programs will help you skyrocket team performance with evidence-based strategies.
How to Conduct an After Action Review (With Minimal Stress)
An after action review (AAR) is a structured review or debrief for analyzing an event or project in the context of:
Ted Bauer
The benefits (and challenges) of a team with high tolerance
Tolerance. It’s something that we all should practice, something fundamental to harmony between humans from all different walks of life - all those different ideas, expectations and ways of simply existing all have to live side-by-side somehow!
Catie McHugh
13 unique team motivation ideas to improve performance
Finding ways to keep teams motivated isn't a one-size-fits-all gig. Industries have their nuances that attract different personalities, and personal motivations change as we mature. The size of the company also plays a role. These were things that companies always had to deal with when it comes to team motivation. But now there's the added challenge of a massive increase in remote workers.
Bev Campling
8 Employee Engagement Trends for 2024 (for the 'New Normal')
Much has been written and theorized about employee engagement since it first appeared as a management theory in the 1990s. Since then, consulting firms and experts have devised definitions, surveys and strategies that many business leaders have devoured and implemented with eager anticipation. Unfortunately, many employee engagement strategies then end up being side-lined by managers and ignored by employees.
Bev Campling
What makes a team successful?
You can’t just assemble a team of superstars and expect them to make magic. (Just ask the numerous sports teams that wrongly thought they could bankroll their way to a trophy.)
Michael Metcalf
HR employee retention strategies: 14 tactics that work
Recruiting top talent is a huge accomplishment for any business leader. But unless you have a strategy for retaining those talents, your efforts are more or less pointless.
Ifeoma Ogbonnaya
5 critical needs of high-performing teams
When Google spends two whole years studying the secrets of team effectiveness, there’s probably something we can all learn from the findings.
Jo Foster
24 fun team building activities for remote or hybrid teams
Let's be real: team building activities get a really bad rap.
Amy Rigby
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.
Amy Rigby
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.
Bev Campling
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.
Ted Bauer
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.
Michaud Garneau
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?”
Kat Boogaard
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:
Vivienne Egan