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Initial Commitments Define What New Teammates Owe To One Another

Without a set of clear expectations, shared accountability on new teams is almost impossible and conflicts may rapidly fester into cultural schisms

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Convincing Teams to Stay during Times of Change

A “stay interview” can help you identify what will keep your employees invested in the work, and demonstrate that they matter

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Use a “Change Audit” to Reflect on Progress and Set Intentions

Six questions that will help you determine how to make change in the year ahead

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How Learning Roundtables Make Your Organization Smarter and More Resilient

Teams must have opportunities to be candid about the progress towards their goals, to work through how to achieve their desired outcomes, and hopefully, to learn from their colleagues’ experiences

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How User Manuals Foster Team Development

Making personal preferences and working styles explicit speeds up the forming and norming process

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How to Create a More Equitable Experience for Remote, Hybrid, and On-Site Employees

An employee experience map tracking gaps in the on-site, remote, and hybrid experience can create a more equitable workplace, wherever work takes place.

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Track Organizational Change with a Change Charter

This “cheat sheet” aligns leaders on the changes they want to see in their teams and serve as a communication tool for the organization at large

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An Adaptive Approach to the Strategic Planning Process

Organizations need a 21st century replacement for the five-year plan, one that respects uncertainty as the norm and values the ability to change as a competitive advantage.

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Create a Communications Plan to Navigate the Different Phases of Change

We’ve created a simple worksheet, inspired by William Bridges’ “4 P’s”, to discuss change with your team

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How to Adapt Performance Review Season for 2021

This isn’t the time for a complete overhaul—instead, hold more frequent 1:1s focused on coping with change, and making progress towards revised goals

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Are You Measuring Change at the Right Organizational Layer?

Change can be tough to pinpoint. It’s constant, but its effects can appear instantaneously, take time to become evident, or…

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How to Bring Background Conversations to the Foreground

Every organization has hidden conversations—but if you can’t talk about an issue, or if you don’t know an issue even exists in the first place, you can’t address it.

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How to Tell the Story of Change

Before people accept a solution, they have to agree there’s a problem. Telling a story—and illustrating their part to play—can make transformation easier

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A Simple Diagram to Determine, “Should This Be a Meeting?”

Reduce workload and bring better work-life balance by evaluating what decisions require meetings and what can be resolved by email

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Embarking on the Change Journey for the Better

A “change map” provides much needed perspective in the middle of a change process

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Hacking the Eisenhower Decision Matrix

As you weigh the urgent and the important in order to prioritize your week or your team’s backlog, you may need new methods to force decision-making and focus

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Anti Racism Resources to Build an Inclusive Work Environment

Creating a more just workplace (and society) can feel overwhelming, but these tools can serve as a first step

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How to Lay Off Employees Gracefully: Special Considerations for Remote Teams

With more people than ever working from home, layoffs require even more care and planning

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Hold Teams Together & Accountable with a Culture Contract

To avoid misunderstandings—and address culture fails—outline what the team should expect from each other, and from the organization.

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Anticipating Problems with a Project Premortem Analysis

At the start of any project, this exercise can help you predict what might go wrong as well as creating a culture where addressing new challenges is safe.