Author

Sarah Goff-Dupont

Contributing Writer

Sarah is a writer whose work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Inc., Huffington Post, as well as industry publications. She works remotely from her home in Minnesota and loves every minute of it. When she’s not writing you can find her reading, snowboarding, cooking, and/or exchanging groan-worthy puns with her kids.

Article in Teamwork
The life-long learner’s guide to mentorship

How to build effective mentoring relationships and get the advice you need at each stage of your career.

Article in Leadership
Why are smart companies so dumb about motivating employees?

Ten years after Daniel Pink’s landmark book on the power of intrinsic motivation, most company leaders still haven’t gotten the memo.

Article in HR meetings
Want to create better all-hands meetings? Here’s how

You don’t need celebrity MCs or flash mobs to make all-hands meetings engaging. Here’s how we do it.

Article in Productivity
5 questions about motivation with Daniel Pink

Honoring the 10th anniversary of his landmark book “Drive”, I sat down with Mr. Pink to talk perks, purpose, and the future of remote work.

Article in Teamwork
Sick of information silos? Here’s how to break them down

Information silos sabotage your productivity and breed distrust. But there’s hope. Use these 6 techniques to cultivate open, effective communication.

Article in HR diversity and inclusion
8 emotional intelligence articles that help you work better with others

The robots are coming! Use these eight articles to build your emotional intelligence and stay relevant (and employed) in the age of AI.

Article in Teamwork
In their own words: how to be open to the world

Opening up to customers and the general public is scary, but the rewards outweigh the risks. Here’s why.

Article in Technology Trends
Why black metal is great music for programming (but doom metal isn’t)

Power chords vs. blast beats… vocals vs. vokills. We teamed up with Pandora and Stack Overflow to bring you a metalhead’s guide to coding music.

Article in Teamwork
How to be an amazing project team in a changing world

As the problems we tackle get more complex, the nature of project teams is changing. Here’s what you need to know (and what you should change) in order to be successful.

Article in Teamwork
In their own words: How open is too open?

A strong culture of transparency doesn’t mean there aren’t limits. So how can you find those boundaries before you trip over them? Sometimes, you can’t.

Article in Teamwork
In their own words: growing up Open

A culture of transparency does indeed scale. But there are massive challenges – and they’re not the ones you’d expect.

Article in Productivity
7 get-$#!t-done hacks that turned out to be myths

We put popular tips to the test and found the real keys to productivity are oddly counter-intuitive.

Article in HR
How to rescue your New Year resolutions by working smarter

Change is hard and willpower fades fast. But don’t give up yet! Use these strategies and techniques from the Team Playbook to stay the course.

Article in HR distributed teams
500 Atlassians worked remotely for a week – here’s what we learned

Our collective WFH muscles got a major workout during the gap between moving out of one office and into another.

Article in HR design
How your office building is tricking you into going green

The most sustainable workspaces are those that enter into dialogue with occupants and influence their behavior. Here’s what tomorrow holds.