Team Effectiveness Resources

Accountability is about owning outcomes you can’t control. That means it includes taking social risk. If you want more accountability you have to make accountability safer.

I’ve been on a treadmill churning out content feeling great about being productive while losing sight of what really matters–is it making a difference ...

When you cup runs dry, try these techniques for finding inspiration. And when inspiration or the time to follow it is in short supply, ...

It’s one thing to invest in activities that charge your batteries, but it’s all for naught if there are too many drains on your ...

How often do you leave the office spent with no energy left for the people in your life who matter most. Try these tips ...

Going hard all day is a sure way to deplete your physical, mental, and emotional energy long before it’s time to go home. Audit ...

It’s easy to point out the people on your team who are perennially creating drama. It’s harder to recognize when that person is you. ...

Drama is hard on individuals and bad for productivity. There are things you can do to help your teammates prevent, reframe, and recover from ...

What if you get stuck in the drama between two teammates? Should you run the other direction? Try to broker the peace? What is ...

Ever wonder why your team relishes drama? Here are a variety of reasons why drama might be reinforcing and how you can put a damper on it.

There are few situations more exasperating and anxiety-provoking than when your urgent priority falls well down the list for the colleague you’re depending on. ...

One of the most helpful things you can do as a manager is to coach someone to get better at prioritization. But coaching isn’t ...

Prioritizing is hard enough when you have to choose among multiple important tasks; but what do you do when those tasks aren’t just important, ...

Leaders who confuse the concept of prioritization with the idea of importance are leaving their teams diluted, distracted, and discombobulated. Time to get good at prioritizing.

We often assume stress is a bad thing but it can help us be more effective. Here are some techniques to avoid distress and ...

We are all accustomed to having stress at work and at home, but when stress from one domain bleeds into the other it can ...

Work stress comes from many different sources. Some you can address and remedy, others you need to cope with. Here are strategies for fixing ...

There is a lot about work that’s stressful. But stress can be instructive if you learn to recognize it early and take steps to ...

Stuck with a colleague who has low self-awareness, little empathy, poor self-regulation, and lacking social skills. Here are some strategies that will help you cope with a low-EQ teammate.

Few people are aware of the impact they have on others. This is especially costly for managers because low self-awareness can make you vulnerable ...

Expert guidance, articles, and exercises designed to enhance workplace feedback skills, covering how to give, receive, and implement feedback for effective professional development and team performance.

Strategic tools, assessments, and actionable content focused on resolving workplace and team conflict, clarifying challenges such as avoidance and passive aggression, and strengthening constructive communication.

We’ve all been there. Overwhelmed, exhausted, barely holding on. Learn about stress management and techniques to handle workplace pressure.

When you focus you trade frantic multitasking for clear single-tasking, stolen hours for spare energy, and busyness for actually accomplishing meaningful work.

Feeling burnt out at work? You’re not alone, and it’s not your fault. Here’s what burnout really is and practical ways to bounce back ...

Emotional intelligence has power & limitations. Which EQ techniques transform, and which are empty promises? Are you in the 10% of people who truly have it?

Giving feedback isn’t easy. If done properly, it can make your work life better. Learn how to give feedback effectively with these tips.

What you know about conflict is probably wrong. Getting good at conflict management is a power skill that’ll supercharge your team and help you ...

Are you worried you’re on a toxic team? Explore the five common team diseases with an expert of 25+ years, and find out if your team is at risk

Hybrid workplaces are here to stay. In this guide, I’ll give you all the information you need to make sure your hybrid team is successful

Worried you’re in a toxic work environment, and need to know your options? Here’s a survival guide to plan your next move.

Overwhelm shows up differently for everyone. Find out your personal overwhelm profile — and get insights and tools tailored specifically to your type.

Work isn’t working. The distractions, the emotional triggers, and the constant draws on our energy all add up.

Avoiding conflict hinders productivity and erodes trust. But introducing conflict too fast will be a shock to the system.

Statements and assertions shut people down and lead to unproductive or unhealthy conflict. Using questions opens up the dialogue and leaves room for a path forward.

Conventional wisdom holds that conflict is bad for productivity and corrosive to trust and engagement. It’s just not true.

If you’re unwilling to impose consequences, you’re not serious about accountability. When I ask for examples of how they respond to poor performance, few ...

Struggling with a colleague who meddles? Learn how to navigate the situation, maintain your professionalism, and stop the interference.

Unfortunately, most people suck at giving good feedback. Fortunately, however, you have the power to help others give you useful and constructive feedback—feedback that’s easy for ...

If difficult conversations are unavoidable, how do you get through them with grace?

Accountability is an internal process. Nobody can make you feel accountable except yourself. Here’s how to demonstrate it for others

Being strategic requires more than just having great ideas, it means being able to communicate your ideas in a compelling way and to overcome ...

If you have a meeting invite sitting waiting that you haven’t replied to yet, or with the very next one that comes in, I ...

In the majority of emotional situations, people just need a safe place to express their experience of their work.

I call these six techniques the Conflict Strategies for Nice People because each one unlocks a workable solution in a way that’s calm and respectful

I call these six techniques the Conflict Strategies for Nice People because each one unlocks a workable solution in a way that’s calm and respectful

Although it doesn’t happen often, sometimes we advise people to stop trying to be a team and to aim for a model that would ...

There are so many ways you can add value in your meeting. Some of them are more likely when you don’t have the subject matter expertise ...

The ONLY person who can take ownership for the psychological fear in your own head is you.

Feeling stretched too thin? Burnout is real & it sucks. Let’s talk about how you can avoid burnout… before it’s too late.

Warning: My techniques may cause you to stare at mirrors, ask about superpowers, and curl up with books. Side effects include improved emotional intelligence!

The only way to get out of overwhelm and burnout is to figure out if you’re really being effective and to stop what isn’t helping.

Managers are waiting for people to fail instead of positioning them to succeed. If you want to increase accountability, you need to feel more responsible.

Tired of overly-simple workplace efficency strategies? Here are 5 unconventional ways to help you speed up and get more done.

Cognitive flexibility measures how intellectually adaptable you are. It’s important since it’s correlated with how open you stay to different situations and possibilities

Have you ever caught yourself losing time because of task-switching? If you just focus on one thing at a time you’ll be a lot more efficient.

There are plenty of scenarios where using a performance improvement plan isn’t the best option. Here’s when you should skip the PIP

Planning your day *well* is essential to getting good at time management. Let’s go through the who, what, why, when, where, and how

Messing up happens to all of us. Now, if you’re an accountable person you have an important thing to do next: apologize. But how?

6 practical tips to manage your emotions and protect your energy, especially during challenging moments at work.

Meetings may be long, but they’re key moments to stand out to colleagues and your boss. Try these 6 tips to maximize their impact!

Some days, finding time for work tasks feels impossible. How can you protect your time and productivity? Here are 10 effective strategies.

If you feel like you’re constantly running out of energy, here are 7 things you can focus on to reduce those energy drains

Have you ever needed an energy boost at work? Managing our energy these days is a challenge. Here are some ways to boost your energy levels.

I’m worried workplace empathy is in short supply, even though it makes our teams so much stronger when we understand out coworkers’ emotions

Protecting yourself from the bad moods of people around you is super important. Have you ever picked up a mood from somebody else?

No conflict? Then no meeting! But managing conflict in meetings is crucial to get the right kind of conflict you need to be productive

There has been a rising emotional buzz in the workplace and for good reason. Give these approaches a try if that’s what you’re experiencing