Explainers Personality Tests Don’t Work, Here’s Why and The Alternatives Personality tests, we think, help us understand ourselves better. But in reality, they are often a self-gratifying exercise that gets us no closer to understanding ourselves or others.
Tools How to Define and Describe an Organization It can be difficult to give order to the mess that is an organization. After all, business is the commercialization of human interaction and well, people are messes of complexity. Our tool, the Org Charter, helps make sense of all that complexity.
Tools How to Make Better Decisions as a Team There are lots of group decision-making models. Explore each and find one that works well for your group’s needs and circumstance.
Explainers The Futures of Work: Fixed vs Fluid Regardless of what the airport bookstore shelves tell you, there is no single future of work. There are multiple organizational futures stretching out in front of every company, and the road best taken is dependent on the environment around you.
Explainers How to Reduce Decision Fatigue Every day, we are faced with decisions that can range from seemingly minute to hugely impactful. Making decisions as a group is complicated even further by the addition of different perspectives, personalities, and opinions, so it’s easy for decision making fatigue to set in.
Quick Studies Four Rules Slack Follows When Using Slack How does the company who invented one of the most ubiquitous team messaging platforms in the world use its own tool?
Tools How to Identify a Problem by Asking Questions In a fast paced world, we tend to overvalue speedy solutions and mistake what problem we’re really solving for. Instead of rushing to a typical brainstorm, pause for a moment and generate questions.
Quick Studies How REI Responded to Employee Criticisms Online With social platforms and sites like Glassdoor, companies are receiving more feedback from their employees and that feedback is often very public. How should a company respond?
Quick Studies The 5 Signs of a High Performing Team, According to Google Google conducted 200+ interviews with their employees and examined more than 250 attributes of 180+ active Google teams to answer a simple question: what makes a great team at Google?
Explainers How to Avoid “Creative Entitlement” Having only a small group of people within your organization that identify as “creative” can lead not only to cliques but it can also lead to rule avoidance and unethical behavior.
Tools Give Constructive Feedback with A Star and A Wish You’ve probably heard of the “feedback sandwich”—a compliment, followed by a criticism, then another compliment. As someone giving feedback, this model feels safe and comfortable but for the person receiving the feedback it’s all too easy to learn to ignore any positive feedback as you wait for the “real” feedback. The next time you need to deliver feedback, try this format dubbed “A Star and A Wish” instead.
