Does your team struggle with social loafing? Are you a social loafer yourself? Learn more about social loafing and how to reduce it on remote teams.
How to run, refine and reap the rewards from your most significant virtual gathering—brought to you by our friends at SavvyCal.
Learn what context switching is, the cost of multitasking, and what you can do to prevent context switching at work.
Learn what makes a good skip level meeting, how to create a skip level meeting agenda, and key questions for both managers and employees to ask.
Learn what a catch-up meeting is, the benefits of a catch-up meeting, and best practices for running effective catch-up meetings.
Learn why consistent meeting cadence is important, what cadence options are available, and how to choose the right meeting cadence for your one on ones.
Learn how to utilize a coaching plan in one on one meetings, including how to implement the GROW coaching technique to help employees reach their potential.
Decision making as a team can be challenging. This article offers tips on choosing a decision making framework & ideas on different decision making models.
Using an effective meeting notes template can ensure everyone is on the same page after a meeting. Learn how to make meeting notes work for you and your team.
Learn about the benefits of an onboarding meeting, how to prepare a first team meeting agenda, and what questions to ask new team members.
Performance reviews are challenging for both managers and employees. Learn how to prepare and what performance review questions to ask as a manager or employee.
A new year meeting sets your team up for success in the new year ahead. Learn about the benefits of a new year meeting and use our ideas to get started.
Are there any benefits to micromanagement? How can you be a successful manager by leading your employees instead of breathing down their necks? Here's everything you need to know.
In this article we discuss personal user manuals, including the benefits, how we utilize them at WorkPatterns, and strategies for implementing them in your workplace.
Get practical insight on the benefits and drawbacks of cross-functional collaboration and how you can enhance the effectiveness of your cross-functional team.
Keep reading to learn more about the importance of building trust in the workplace and 5 simple steps to build trust within virtual teams.
Uncover the differences between synchronous and asynchronous communication, the pros and cons of synchronous communication, and best practices for remote teams.
Whether you’re managing remote employees or working across divisions, learning how to navigate the five different communication styles will help you communicate more effectively.
Slack’s main selling point is its greatest flaw. Read about the negative effects of slack holes and fast communication, and pick up some tips for better team workflows.
For many organizations, off-sites are being welcome as an alternative to daily on-site collaboration. In this article, we share our tips and techniques to running effective off-site meetings.
Learn how to be better at giving and receiving constructive criticism, and how to put it into action.
Learn about the importance of managing up, including when you should manage up, best practices, and common managing up mistakes.
Understanding millennials in the workplace is critical. Here you’ll find actionable tips and insight into how to motivate and engage millennials.
Learn more about the stages of the Kübler-Ross Change Curve, so you can lead your team toward continued success in an ever-evolving business landscape.
Learn the difference between asynchronous and synchronous communication, the benefits of asynchronous communication, and how to navigate communication as a remote team.
Working as a distributed team surfaces best practices we should have had all along. Let's move from management by interruption to asynchronous management.
Learn about the importance of one on one meetings for employees, including how you can maximize your one on ones to advance your career.
In this free guide, we'll give you a framework for all-hands meetings, an agenda template, and teach you how to best approach these meetings as a leader.
Constructive feedback is critical to employee development. This guide explains what makes feedback constructive and how to deliver it with examples.