Team Building


Recent Team Building Articles

How to Cultivate a Culture of Caring

It's not enough to have a great product anymore. Consumers want to buy into company culture.  Read more

How to Lead with Courage

You may not make headlines, but even every day acts of courage help others around you.  Read more

5 Things Great Mentors Do

Your employees can achieve greater things with your help than they can alone--if you give them a chance.  Read more

Why Every Company Needs a Culture Chief

Lara Morrow has a knack for building caring, trusting relationships. So we made her Beryl's queen of fun and laughter.  Read more

Are You an Overbearing Boss?

Find out if you are a bossy boss--and, if so, what you can do about it.  Read more

The Worst Kind of Question You Can Ask

Stop sucking all the creativity out of the room. When you want ideas and feedback, don't ask for them like this.  Read more

Get Rid of Your Worst Employees

Say goodbye to the whiners, losers, and jerks. Four reasons why leaders struggle to let go of the wrong employees--but shouldn't.  Read more

Encourage Employees to Speak Up

Silence is not golden. To really know what's going on, you need people around you to say what's on their minds (even if it's not what you want to hear).  Read more

Problem with Open Office Plans

Does easy communication outweigh noisy distraction at the workplace?  Read more

5 Things Remarkable Bosses Never Do

What you don't do can sometimes make a bigger impact than what you do.  Read more

How to Keep a Superstar Employee Happy

Can't offer extra money or a better title? You may not need either to get your top employee to stick around.  Read more

When Rivals Can Be Partners 

Lara Miller shares resources with other eco-friendly designers in Chicago, and competes on a global level.  Watch video

Weed Out Wannabes; Not Everyone Can Cut It At A Start-up

Nine ways to know if the job seeker you're talking to has the personality, risk profile, and skill set for an entrepreneurial venture.  Read more

Confessions of an Ex-Manager

Sure, there were successes along the way. But there were also mistakes--lots of them. An ex-manager reflects on his rookie days.  Read more

How to Build a Great Team With Imperfect People

Your goal isn’t to ensure every employee is great; it's to ensure that collectively they'll be great. (There’s a big difference.)  Read more

How to Cultivate Collective Intelligence

Unleash your worker bees. The power of swarms and cooperation to attack business problems.  Read more

10 Steps to Make Your Employees Smile

A common-sense approach to building a company culture of engagement.  Read more

How to Settle Employee Squabbles

The last thing you want to do is seem like you're taking sides. Here's how to handle interpersonal problems more gracefully.  Read more

6 Ways to Measure the Success of Any Project

Want to go from the beginning to the end of a project more efficiently? Make sure your team understands what success should look like.  Read more

Why Girl Scouts Become Entrepreneurs

Some 80 percent of women entrepreneurs were girl scouts once. Maybe that's not just a coincidence.  Read more

How to Communicate Well With Your Team 

Tips to perfect the communication between you and your staffers from Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council, and Scott Case, CEO of the Star...  Watch video

Attention Goldman Sachs: Time to Buckle Down and Focus on Culture

Here's how--and why it will even improve shareholder value.  Read more

All-Hands Meetings: Friend or Foe?

The last thing we need are more meetings, but having a company-wide gathering will allow you to make sure that everyone is marching toward the same goals.  Read more

Is Your Whole Team in Sync?

Once your start-up grows to more than 10 people, it's hard to maintain a sense of organizational focus. Here's how we did it at IndieGoGo.  Read more

7 Last Minute Ideas for National Employee Appreciation Day

Forgot about National Employee Appreciation Day? Bet your employees didn't. Here are a few quick tips to keep you out of the doghouse.  Read more

How to Build Great Collaborations

The power of cooperation and comedy to make useful products.  Read more

When to Listen to Your Fear

Self-belief can motivate you to succeed. If you lack it, you may need more resources, experience, or strategy.  Read more

9 Things You Should Never Ask Employees to Do

Kill the post-work social events -- among other things -- that might be rubbing your staff the wrong way.  Read more

6 Ways to Ruin a Company Offsite Meeting

Still doing trust falls and scavenger hunts? If you want results, here's how not to run a team meeting.  Read more

11 Easy Ways to Make Work Fun

If your employees aren't having fun, they're probably not performing at their highest level. So ease up already and try one of these tactics.  Read more

How Twitter Can Improve Your Management (in 140 Characters or Less)

Communication has been streamlined to short messages. Your management should be too.  Read more

Are You a Psycho Boss?

A recent study shows that you are four times more likely to find a psychopath in the boardroom than on the street. So what?  Read more

Business Partners: 3 Essential Ingredients

One individual (or four) may embody these characteristics. In one way or another, you need these three traits to make your business thrive.  Read more

Know Your Limitations; You'll Lead Better

The best leaders recognize their weaknesses--and struggle through them.  Read more

Bring Out the Nerf Guns at Orientation

When on-boarding new hires, we follow these three guidelines to get our employees behind our (epic) mission, and understand our quirky culture.  Read more