This is a living collection of resources on Teams & Groups that support my Leadership workshops and my Team Coaching clients.

As a facilitator, I see this recurring pattern of team dysfunction in leadership development workshops. When I give the group the first task to achieve as a team, they almost invariably go straight into doing mode and usually fail to achieve the task in time. Then the learning starts! Immediately they see the implication for their daily work. They become open to Team Coaching They begin to see the value of aligning on goals and also on process, before the action starts in future.

Please contact me here if you would like to discuss how you may go further in this topic, watch my videos about how Executive Coaching can help you or Group Coaching can accelerate your team's effectiveness.

What Are You Willing to Give Up to Change the Way We Work

Leadership insights: effective teamwork

Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances

Shaping group dynamics in teams for effective collaboration

Playing Out of Sync: What jazz teaches entrepreneurial leaders

Stop wasting your most precious resource: Middle managers

Pandemic-era graduates struggle with teamwork

Mitigating the dark side of agile teams: Peer pressure, leaders’ control, and the innovative output of agile teams

How to Use Neuroscience to Build Team Chemistry

Ties That Bind: Why Remote Teams Need the Right Connection

5 practices to help remote teams minimize confusion and maximize innovation

Two faces of belonging…Possession and affiliation at work

Dream Team: The Inner Workings of Teamwork

How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum

The debrief imperative: building teaming competencies and team effectiveness

Work Recoded ... rethinking why and how we work ... progressive and enabling, fluid and inclusive, decentralised

Understanding an organization through formal and informal interactions

The Unspoken Life
of Executive Teams

How to Welcome a New Team Member

Quantifying collective intelligence in human groups

Managers Use Changes in Team Membership to Judge Individuals, New Research Shows

The Immortal Awfulness of Open Plan Workplaces

How’s your teaming going?

5 ways leaders can make sure they stay tuned in to teams

The Surprising Way Crowd Size Affects Our Tendency to Cheat

The actions that drive great management

What science says about having fun at work

Why Belonging Is Key to Building the New Workforce

Dancing with Systems

Connectedness

Is flexibility a panacea for our working ills? Not according to this book

An Engineering Team where Everyone is a Leader

Stop Doing Your Team’s Work for Them

Want to Build Better Product? Empower Your Team

Why managers deserve more understanding

Collaboration Is a Key Skill. So Why Aren’t We Teaching It?

3 Strategies for Managing an Understaffed Team

11 Team Effectiveness Models to Build High-Performing Teams

Is promoting agile, self-directed ways of working always wise?

Teaming is hard because you’re probably not really on a team

People, not policies: The role of the individual in driving inclusion in the workplace

Even in the operating room, team chemistry matters, study finds

Should Employees Be Allowed to Choose What They Want to Do?

Do We Still Need Teams?

The Case Against Collaboration

The Need for Speed

Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together

A Seven-Step Choreography for Thriving Teams

Best Friends Forever: Relationship Schemas, Organizational Forms, and Institutional Change

The Start-Up Blind Spot That Trips New Ventures

To build a healthy workplace, you need a toxic culture alarm

The Secret To Agile Teams: Three Hacks To Use Hierarchy To Accelerate Team Agility

A Pragmatic Approach For Building A Great Leadership Team

Should Employees Be Allowed to Choose What They Want to Do?

Do We Still Need Teams?

Reflections on the nature and meaning of teamwork

Trade-Offs in Firm Culture? Nope, You Can Have it All

Make Operations Your Secret Weapon - Here’s How

Would Popular Gender Diversity Interventions Pass The Science Test?

Making Sure That Everyone Knows Their Place

How successful leaders stay on top of things: building an attentional infrastructure

Managing Successful Groups and Teams

Is There A Business Case For Women In Leadership?

Employees want more freedom. Here’s how to give it without spoiling your team

How Well-Designed Work Makes Us Smarter

Develop communities of practice around the ideas you’re developing

When organisations break promises to an employee, others may feel it too

Neurotypical privilege in the labour market

Embracing Purposeful Leadership And Galvanizing Your Teams Around Meaningful Projects

Hierarchy Is Not the Problem…

Should Employees Be Allowed to Choose What They Want to Do?

Ingroup privilege can drain workplaces of wellbeing and creativity

Making Sure That Everyone Knows Their Place

Why a more tribal work life might be a good thing

Why you must move fast to get the right team in place

The Hidden Danger of Collaboration

Too Many Teams, Too Many Bosses: Overcoming Matrix Madness

The Collective Intelligence of Remote Teams

Are Teams Better Than Individuals at Getting Work Done?

Organizing Entrepreneurial Teams: A Field Experiment on Autonomy over Choosing Teams and Ideas

The Toxic Effects of Branding Your Workplace a “Family”

Six reasons why … star performers are bad for the bottom line

The Secrets of Highly Successful Young Entrepreneurs

Five ways to help leaders who struggle to connect with their teams

How Do You Succeed as a Business Ecosystem Contributor?

In Praise of Teamwork

Systemic dance

Write Down Your Team’s Unwritten Rules

We Can Work It Out: How To Build Entrepreneurial Teams For Enhanced Success

Three illusions of leading teams

Hierarchy matters at work, so why aren’t we talking about it?

From Strangers to Teammates: How Getting on the Same Wavelength Might Be More than a Metaphor

Why the workplace chameleon is a paradox for diversity and inclusion

Getting Your Team Members on the Same Page

The science behind successful teams

How to maximise your teams collective intelligence

How to Achieve Sustainable Remote Work

Teams grow stronger when managers show openness and vulnerability

The Hazards of a “Nice” Company Culture

What Leaders Need Now More Than Ever: A ‘Team of Rivals’

Accountability = account × ability

Mixing Business and Pleasure for Competitive Advantage

How Humans Think When They Think As Part of a Group

Leadership Influence: Controlling Emotional Contagion

Hierarchy is Good. Hierarchy is Essential. And Less Isn’t Always Better

Innovative Work Cultures Know the Difference Between ‘Leader’ and ‘Manager’

Putting People at the Centre of Operations

If Women Are Better Leaders, Then Why Are They Not In Charge?

Social Media Helps Global “Dream Teams” Come Together

Seeing Oneself as a Valued Contributor: Social Worth Affirmation Improves Team Information Sharing

How Leaders Can Optimize Teams’ Emotional Landscapes

Team boosting behaviours:Development and validation of a new concept and scale

How to Reassure Your Team When the News Is Scary

The Future of Work Is Through Workforce Ecosystems

Why equitable workplaces depend on your team’s makeup (not just outstanding hires)

When Is Teamwork Really Necessary?

You’re “too controlling” as a leader. What to do

3 Coaching Questions for Leaders to Ask When a Team Member Feels Discouraged

The New Analytics of Culture

BCG: Bringing Managers Back to Work

The Organizational Spectroscope

Leaders, doing what you’re good at hurts your team

The Power of Hidden Teams

11 Ways To Become Everyone's Favorite Boss (While Still Being a Leader)

How to stop that one team member from ruining your team

Symptoms of Group Strength

Accountability and Empathy

Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups

Huddle Up! (Building Group Cohesion)

How to Hold Your Team Accountable

Creating a Star Team

For Teams, What Matters More: Raw Talent or a History of Success Together?Add paragraph text here.

Why Small Teams Win And Bigger Ones Fail

How to Ask Your Team the Right Questions

The 5 Tactics of Teamwork: A Blueprint for Team Management

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