How to Build High-Performing Teams in the Workplace
In today’s tight labor market and challenging economic environment, it’s more vital than ever to not only attract great employees but also keep them engaged. So what’s the secret to building and maintaining extraordinary teams?
How to Keep Employees Happy: Guidance, Gratitude, and Giving Back
Every organization wants (or should want!) its employees to be happy. There are lots of relatively small ways that enterprises can encourage and support employee happiness – read more to discover 5 great ideas.
10 Insights from Aquent’s Renaissance of Teamwork Report
Here are 10 insights that stood out to us from Aquent’s teamwork report on how to develop and maintain high-performing teams.
Top Secrets of High-Performing Teams: Insights from Harvard Business Review
Every organization wants to build high-performing teams. But too often, leadership efforts focus on myths or misconceptions about how to achieve high performance. This post exposes some of those myths, sets the record straight, and provides practical research-based guidance. Following his 2021 Harvard Business Review article, 5 Things High-Performing Teams Do Differently, leadership consultant and […]
Focus on Workplace Wellbeing and Relationships in the Workplace to Build High-Performing Teams
Every enterprise today has access to technology, information, capital, and even talent (though they may have trouble retaining it). So what is it that separates high-performing organizations—those able to retain and engage the best people, and operate at a consistently high level—from their struggling peers? Recent research studies from Harvard and the U.S. Surgeon General agree on the answers.
Signs of High Emotional Intelligence & Why Emotional Intelligence is Vital for High Performance
In business as in sports, high-performing teams aren’t built on talent alone. While a certain level of individual talent is an essential element, teams that ultimately win championships—or outperform the competition in business—have talented members who work together and collaborate as a cohesive group. And the key element in creating that collaboration is emotional intelligence, or EQ.
Business Lessons from the Greatest Comeback in NFL History
The ability to perform at a high level and achieve remarkable goals, whether in business or sports, doesn’t just happen. It’s a combination and culmination of many factors, built upon a foundation of these nine components.
Remote? Back in the Office? Hybrid? It’s Not WHERE Your People Work but HOW They Work That Matters
How should you structure your organization for the future of work: everyone back in the office, fully remote, or a hybrid approach? The latest research suggests that for enterprises focused on optimizing operational performance (i.e., pretty much everyone)—that’s the wrong question to ask.
