Teamwork
Why you need diversity on your team and 4 ways to build it
We have a question for you: What’s the recipe for an amazing and unstoppable team? Psychological safety? A supportive culture? Streamlined workflows? A solid team structure? Epic snacks at your meetings and brainstorming sessions? All of the above, if you ask us. But there’s one more big thing that’s missing from that list: diversity.
What’s your virtual meeting IQ?
Prove your brilliance (or expose your ignorance) in less than five minutes.
Proof our work-life balance is in danger (but there’s still hope)
We suspected the workday was bleeding farther into your personal time, but we couldn’t prove it. Until now.
This is how to safeguard your mental health when you’re (still) working from home
Use this expert advice to prioritize your mental health and your job while working from home.
When a Picture is Worth a Thousand Animals
In the desert plains of Northern Kenya, hundreds of people from around the world and different walks of life have gathered. The photographs they take with their GPS-enabled cameras might be humanity’s best shot at saving an entire species. This is the story of a shared mission, with the help of Wildbook, an artificial intelligence (AI) software program, that is saving animals – and the biodiversity of the planet.
The DACI method: how to make better decisions during projects
Making decisions together is a fundamental part of every team’s journey. Not only are they important from a strategic perspective, finding consensus is critical to moving the team and your projects in the same (and right) direction. After all, it’s only fair that if a decision is going to impact others and the progression of a project, they should have an opportunity to contribute to it.
Can agile pods help your team win big at scale?
As a living laboratory for teamwork, our marketing department is giving this novel organizational framework a try. Here’s what teams of all types can learn from the journey so far.
Mission Impossible: The Thai Cave Rescue
Twelve Thai teenagers and their young soccer coach got stuck deep inside the labyrinthine Tham Luang caves of Thailand. Feared dead after a week, they were discovered alive by a British cave diver. Learn about the leadership and teamwork that enabled disparate groups to remain synchronized, overcome cultural barriers, and make life-or-death decisions during the rescue.
Strike the balance between individual and team contributions
A reported 39% of employees believe people in their organization don’t collaborate enough. Yet, 67% of people say spending too much time in meetings distracts them from the responsibilities of their jobs. 57% of employees say they feel isolated at work, but 41% have felt friction or dealt with conflicts while collaborating.
17 random ways to be kind at work (and why it matters)
“Be kinder than is necessary. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.”
How to debug distributed teamwork, as suggested by new research
We surveyed thousands of workers across the globe to see how COVID-19 and the sudden shift to working from home has affected them. Here’s what we uncovered.
Iceland vs. COVID: containing a pandemic
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Iceland had become the worst-hit country in Scandinavia. But it reversed its fate, without a full lockdown. And to date, Iceland has seen very few deaths. How? Largely because of the harmonious collaboration of “The Trinity” – Iceland’s chief epidemiologist, Director of Health, and Superintendent of Police – who implemented the “pandemic plan”: a framework for working together and saving lives.
11 lessons from the NBA Bubble for your newly remote team
What you can learn from the sports league’s successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
How teams at Trello use Trello
From the beginning, Trello as a tool has been used to fuel Trello as a company. As a company that has operated as a large remote workforce for years, supporting over 50 million users globally, it’s truly impossible to tell how Trello as a company could function without its own tool supporting collaboration and so much more.