Strengthen your team
Team Health Resources
A curated collection of Opre's favorite articles aimed at helping you manage and improve your team's health. Browse or filter by category.
Personal Purpose
Being in touch with your "job mindset", "career mindset" and "purpose mindset" will help you distinguish the three stages, and understand how you can bring purpose into your job and career.
Harvard Business Review
Active Accountability
Find out how to become more accoutable, both for yourself and your team.
Atlas Staffing
Personal Purpose
This interview with Dave and Wendy Ulrich (Authors: The Why of Work) dives deeper into purpose and meaning in the workplace, and how to help your employees find their why.
Forbes
Personal Purpose
Rediscover your personal purpose within the team. Start by funding, instead of finding, personal purpose.
Thrive Global
Productive Conflict
Use the "5 C's" approach to better manage conflict on your team.
Entrepreneur
Commitment to the Team
Inspiring employees to take ownership is at the core of creating committed teams. Find out how to identify areas for team mates to take ownership, and give them the structure to take it.
Patriot Small Business Blog
Commitment to the Team
This article outlines questions you should be asking your team to better understand how committed each member is. Do team mates feel valued? challenged? excited? recognized?
The Balance Careers
Personal Purpose
PWC's in-depth report about putting purpose into work. Thorough and comprehensive!
PWC
Trust and Safety
This interview with Author Amy Edmonson (The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth.) gets to the bottom of psychological safety, its importance, and how teams can create it. We suggest her book for a longer read!
Harvard Business School
Active Accountability
Follow these four steps to make your team actively accountable for one another, themselves and your company's goals.
Team Coaching International
Focus on Team Goals
Starting with creating a common outcome for your team, learn how to set company goals step by step.
Entrepreneur
Active Accountability
The transition from in-office to remote work challenges active accountability. These five keys to working from home will make you and your team more accountable.
Hubstaff Blog
Commitment to the Team
Focus on nurturing Purpose within your team to foster committment from every member. This article illustrates how purpose yield committment, making your team both successful and happy.
Mission.org
Active Accountability
Collective accountability is a sign of a great team. This article details how to foster a culture of collective accountability at your company.
CrossKnowledge
Trust and Safety
Google found that trust is the key to a great team. Click to read their nine suggestions for creating trust on your team.
Inc.
Focus on Team Goals
Feedback is necessary to achieve team goals. Understand how to best give and recieve feedback, and create a culture on your team where feedback is integrated day to day.
OpenView Venture Partners
Productive Conflict
Want to understand how team members handle conflict based on their DISC profile? This article highlights productive vs. destructive conflict behaviors, and how individuals should focus on their strengths to find positives within conflict.
Cprime
Active Accountability
Evaluate your teams' effectiveness in these four areas to keep your company accountable.
re:Work
Productive Conflict
There should be conflict on your team. This article dives into why conflict is necessary, and gives 7 guidelines for making it productive.
Entrepreneur
Positive Impact
Positive, highly motivated teams are fun to be a part of. And they can accomplish far more than teams that struggle with negativity and low morale.
MindTools
Focus on Team Goals
Case study: At Boston Consulting Group, employees have mandatory "Predictability, Teaming and Open Communication" time. This PTO keeps teams motivated, focused and communicating in the long run.
The Economic Times
Commitment to the Team
Understand how to identify lack of committment from the invidivudal versus the team, and take these next steps to promote committment.
DISC Profiles
Positive Impact
Forbes found 9 behaviors of people who make a positive impact in all that they do. Understand how you can adapt these skills, and strengthen your team.
Forbes
Productive Conflict
This 3 minute podcast outlines six ways to translate conflict into productivity. Integrate these constructive approaches into your team.
Center for Creative Leadership
Productive Conflict
Conflict in the workplace is common. Understand six different scenarios of conflict, and how to manage them most productively with your team.
Atlas Staffing
Positive Impact
5 actionable steps any leader can take to make a positive impact on your team.
Kaizen News
Trust and Safety
Trust is the baseline of any successful team. It builds psychological safety, encourages questioning, creates goodwill, encourages innovation and increases moral. This Forbes Article will help you and your team to understand the importance of trust and its impact on every aspect of work.
Forbes
Commitment to the Team
Five comittments that great teams make. Is your team making these?
Jon Gordon
Focus on Team Goals
Understand the four science-backed theories of motivation, and how these relate to your team. This article includes another four tips to motivate your team effectively.
The Innovation