10 Ways a Collaborative Culture Helps Employees
Extensive research shows why building a sustainably collaborative culture is good for companies. It makes companies more efficient, innovative and productive. But there are huge benefits for [...]
Dispatches from the Wall Street Journal’s Women in the Workplace Conference
Although women and men graduate from college and enter the workforce at roughly equal numbers, men outnumber women 2 to 1 when it comes to getting promoted into their first manager role. That [...]
How to Make Your Workplace 10x More Productive in 10 Days (or Less)
Think that a team of dedicated employees is all you need to create a successful business? Think again. Commitment is great, but it doesn’t mean anything if it doesn’t translate to [...]
3 Ways to Drive Energy in Your Workplace
Understanding how energy works within an organization is key to discovering and developing innovation. One of our co-founders, Professor Wayne Baker, has a new article in the Annual Review of [...]
How to Build a Collaborative Sales Organization
Sales organizations are, by their very nature, competitive. Encouraging friendly rivalry, publicizing sales rankings, and giving performance-based awards can all be effective sales management [...]
The 2 Factors Sapping Your Team of Energy, Productivity, and Happiness
Welcome to 2019! As we head into the new year, there are two core factors keeping our teams from excellence: 1. Your employees are wasting time and energy today trying to find answers that exist [...]
By Larry Freed
Posted The Give and Take Manifesto
We believe in generosity at work. The research shows (and our experience bears out) that when we are helpful to others at work, our job satisfaction, health, sense of wellbeing, work product, [...]
4 Challenges of Sales Onboarding (and One Solution!)
Onboarding new sales people is a challenge facing every sales leader. According to Training Industry Magazine: “Every extra day reps spend ramping is a day the company loses money. Between long [...]
3 Reasons Customer-Facing Employees Need to Collaborate
Great customer support and service teams blend art and science every day to solve customer problems, ensure high adoption rates, reduce churn, encourage renewals, and enable upsells. The art of [...]
4 Effective Collaboration Techniques for Sales Teams
Sales is inherently competitive. And to some degree, it should be. Competition motivates many sales personalities to do their best. But sales can and should also be collaborative, and contrary to [...]
