Articles on working well together (61)

What mistakes do we make when we label a colleague as negative? Get it wrong, and you help create a negative colleague — and a negative team.

Find out how much a negative colleague affects the team, how it happens, and when you’ve ended up in a negative team.

Do you have a negative colleague? A negative colleague doesn’t just drain our energy — they wreck the whole team’s ability to perform.

If your company still looks like the classic org chart, you’re probably trying to solve a problem that no longer exists.

Coaching has proven to be highly effective for team development. But what should you do as a leader to coach your team best?

A Team Charter in your kick-off makes sure you align your expectations for how you’re going to work together…

90% of a team’s fate is decided before the work even starts. Here’s how you, as a leader, create the best conditions for your team.

Most mistakes happen when you hand over to a colleague. Here are 4 strategies that turn understood into done…

How can you be completely sure that what your colleague understands is also what you mean? 5 tools so that heard also gets understood…

Doubt isn’t always doubt. Why women play down their confidence and men minimise their doubt…

6 reasons why we stay silent when we should speak — and two strategies that get you to call out what you notice…

An introduction to the article series with strategies that improve your spoken communication at work…

Analyses of stories from teams in extreme situations show that the teams that come to grief often die in confusion. Why?

When you, as a leader, have to explain big decisions, your job has a lot in common with an entrepreneur’s…

What do you do when a good idea isn’t good enough? You use analogies that make no sense. See how the Wright brothers did it…

An article on how we constantly have to improve our results with fewer resources. Here’s how you hold on to clarity…

Under pressure we see less.
Learn to spot the changes before it’s too late.

There are two kinds of goals: performance goals and learning goals. They’re wildly different and must be used with care…

Shared ownership in a team is the members’ will to hold each other to agreements and goals. Here’s how you do it…

When you’ve got something on your mind for a colleague, don’t dress it up. Say it as it is — and kindly. Here’s how…

Ownership shows up when you expect to be held to account for your actions and your attitudes…