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Lateral career moves: can moving sideways help you move up?
In the world of work, where we are inundated with advice on winning promotions and negotiating raises, vertical movement seems like the only goal worth striving toward.
Conway’s Law: the little-known principle that influences your work more than you think
An organization’s output is directly related to how it communicates internally. The Australia Centre for the Moving Image harnessed this fact for an epic redesign.
How our tiny hackathon turned into a quarterly creativity fest
It started as 14 developers arguing over bug fixes, but it morphed into a bona fide global innovation contest.
How disrupting your daily routine can actually make you more productive
Study most productivity books and they’ll tell you it’s the last thing you should do: disrupting your daily routine.
18 virtual team building activities and games
This isn’t academic theory or some stuff we just made up. This is how real remote teams have fun and stay connected.
Do operating rhythms drive company culture?
Operating rhythms – the reoccurring processes you do with your team, like daily stand-ups or project retros – are a proven way to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your team. But can they also help scale your company culture?
Why performance goals are so important (and how to set your own)
Ah—performance review season. Around the world, at this very minute, employees are working on their self-reviews and performance goals, all while preparing for that anxiety-inducing meeting with The Boss.
Small talk at work has big benefits
How sharing our hobbies, hopes, and dreams helps virtual and hybrid teams bond.
How to incorporate peer recognition into your processes and gain a more satisfied team
Imagine that you invested a ton of time, effort, and energy into a project at work. You poured your all into that assignment and you’re sure that everybody has seen how hard you’ve been working.
Video games can help your team work smarter (no, seriously)
Attention, managers: by the end of this article, we’ll have you slaying dragons with your direct reports in the name of team harmony.
Managers, your employees are struggling – here’s how to keep them happy
New research shows people value flexibility and belonging more than ever.
A project management team’s guide to successful project governance
You’re a crew member on a ship. Your ship’s captain has reviewed all of the necessary nautical maps, charted out where you’re headed, and decided on the route you’ll take to get there. The captain ensures that you stay on course, making high-level decisions as they arise, and monitoring for oversight, like hidden reefs. If a storm blocks your way forward—all hands on deck!—the captain must find safe passage from the storm, before steering the ship back in the right direction. The same can be said of effective project governance.
Is it time to get rid of annual planning?
A lot of people think of annual planning as a necessary evil. But, after the past few years of unpredictability and torn-up plans… is it still serving its purpose? Alternative planning methods are out there, but are they really any better?
Discover your most productive hours with the biological prime time method
There are those periods of time when you’re hyper-focused. You crank through items on your to-do list with seeming ease. Distractions are no match for you. You’re an unstoppable productivity powerhouse.
The agile guide to winning at team development
The forming-storming-norming-performing cycle repeats more often than you might think. Here’s how to navigate each stage with grit and grace.