Team development

If you want an effective organization or business, it is necessary that your teams are functional. In this theme we focus on good team practices and cooperation..

High performance teams (1/3)

VIDEO | Bad leadership is common in many companies and teams and, according to Thobias Laustsen, the symptoms are often similar: Control, bureaucracy, bullying, stress and burn out just to mention a few. But how do you deal with this?

Does your team have x-factor? The 5 factors of success

TOOL | We all want more innovation – everything has to be new, create bottom line results and provide new customers. But innovation is difficult. Numbers show that up to 80 % of all innovation projects fail. Either they fail to develop any ideas or the developed ideas does not succeed on the market.

10 fundamental principles for effective virtual teams

TOOL | Team management is tremendously enriching and remarkably challenging at the same time. And the challenge does not become any smaller, if your team is spread over different addresses or even the whole world. Here are 10 principles that help you make your virtual team work.

Use flow theory and task mapping to boost your team’s performance

TOOL | About how a balance between work tasks and the level of competence creates the conditions for flow. And how you make this possible in your team.

4 things research has proven makes teams better

TOOL | For many executives and entrepreneurs teambuilding and teamwork is kind of like the engine of a car. With its countless moving parts, electronic components and unknown gizmos hidden under the hood, few have a clear image of how it works. Fortunately, there is someone who can help.

Your team performs better, if you share mental models

TOOL | It's almost impossible to avoid working with somebody else in order to solve an assignment in any average modern company. But how is your team doing? Do they outperform expectations? Push boundaries and rethink concepts? No? I didn’t think so. Far too many teams limp through projects, miss deadlines and deliver mediocre results.

10 tips for successful innovation teams

TOOL | Imagine that you've been given the assignment of creating a new innovation team. It's your job to create a team that's able to come up with a new lucrative business idea and run it from concept to launch. This is a big task. To locate developmental areas outside the core business is difficult, especially in a company that's been making the same products for decades and which generally does not want to risk anything.

How to get started with stand-up meetings meetings

TOOL | Whether you call them stand-up meetings, war rooms, productivity meetings, planning meetings or something entirely different, the method of using a shared white board (physical or digital) to give you a perspective on what your team is doing, is invaluable to a lot of teams.

Positive psychology (1/3)

VIDEO | Many leaders focus on problems and on correcting errors. But according to Thomas Gedde Højland there is a lot to be gained from by noticing the things that work.

Are you more productive just before deadline? You'll probably miss it

TOOL | Research shows, that those of us who prefer working under pressure jeopardizes the deadline of the entire team. But these three simple pieces of advice can help you and your team reach your goals.

The Johari Window

TOOL | The Johari Window helps us understand how we share and receive information. It can contribute to the illustration and improvement of self-consciousness between individuals and teams. It can also be used to change group dynamics.

Level 5 Leadership: How to get there

TOOL | If you're in a leader position, you've probably wondered how you are able to move to “the next level” and go from good to great leadership. Read along as we explain Level 5 Leadership.

LEGO Serious Play

THEME | The values of LEGO Serious Play rest on a faith in everyone's potential and a belief that everyone in a company can contribute to discussions, solutions and results.

Create team cohesion with a Team performance review

TOOL | The team performance review is a central part of making a team work. This is where the team gets a chance to discuss the things that are necessary for the collaboration to work. The team takes time to discuss process, collaboration, solutions, etc.

Create an efficient team with Tuckmann’s 5 team development phases

TOOL | You probably know the situation: You have gathered a team of your best coworkers to solve a critical work assignment. Your star-coworkers are ready, everybody knows it is an important assignment that needs solving, and everybody know that there is too little time to do it, as always.

Myers Briggs Type Indicator

VIDEO | If you want to improve your communication and teamwork then Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) may be just the thing for you. It’s a personality model that addresses those exact issues and provides you with a deeper understanding of human personality.