Everything your team needs to work better, not just harder.
Effective teamwork is at the heart of every organization's success. Whether you're running a digital agency, a basketball team, or even a dungeons and dragons campaign, chemistry makes your teams great. Therefore, it's no wonder that most modern businesses center on understanding the characteristics ...
Team Collaboration • • 4 min read
Asynchronous communication lets your team work together, without working at the same time. Think fewer meetings, more breathing room. When used right, it boosts focus, respects time zones, and keeps projects moving without constant pings. But when to use it actually?
Team Collaboration • • 8 min read
It’s time to face the music: the world has changed. As one of our users put it: “Uncertainty ahead!!”, and it’s true. We don’t know where we’ll be by the end of the year. We don’t even know when we’ll be able to get back to our offices!But until we do, teams are still working together ...
Team Collaboration • • 3 min read
Does your workplace rock or has it hit rock bottom? If you asked your teams to describe the culture at your organization, would they say it’s awesome and vibing, or lousy and draining? These words matter and carry more weight than you can imagine. Because the way your people feel at work, directly ...
Team Collaboration • • 10 min read
Some managers believe that handling and leading a team of creatives can be very similar to taking care of preschool children: they sleep (procrastinate) when they want, they play (work) when they see fit and often whine if things are not to their liking. But does this group delivers results? Oh boy ...
Team Collaboration • • 6 min read
You have 15 minutes at your disposal and want to know the basics of all leadership theories? This is THE post for you! It will provide you with essential information about all theories, the main idea behind each one, and a bunch of excellent links if you would like to further your research. So let’s ...
Team Collaboration • • 9 min read
Why is your team successful? Why is your team failing? Dr. Belbin has an answer.Dr. Raymond Meredith Belbin is the leading authority on team roles. His research and knowledge, which spanned more than 40 years, showed that it is more important how members fit together than how smart they individually ...
Team Collaboration • • 5 min read
Imagine having a team of 400,000 people working for years on a project that could change the notion of what was previously thought of as possible. Succeed, and you get a glowing page in the history books. Fail, and you waste billions of dollars, and potentially, three human lives.Oh, and the entire thing ...
Team Collaboration • • 7 min read
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When people share an elevator ride, they are a group; when the elevator gets stuck, they become a team.Individuals that get on the same elevator most likely share some things, like: they work in the same building and on the same floor, or they may work for the same boss and have similar interests. The ...
Team Collaboration • • 6 min read
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Teams can be divided into four main groups: project teams, self-managed teams, virtual teams, and operational teams. What type of team you have depends on its purpose, location, and organizational structure. Each type of team comes with its unique set of strengths and weaknesses. In order to fully utilize ...
Team Collaboration • • 6 min read
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Instead of retelling the same old stories about the best teamwork practices from companies such as Google, Chevron, or the Southwest airlines (which don’t really help when you have a small-to-medium team), we decided to find real-life examples of successful teamwork.We asked everyday entrepreneurs ...
Team Collaboration • • 6 min read
Search for "teamwork definition" and you'll quickly realize that there isn’t a commonly agreed definition.While many authors emphasize the importance of teamwork, they don't provide a clear and straightforward definition of teamwork. Here are a handful of definitions we managed to find:Teamwork is ...
Team Collaboration • • 5 min read