Team Building


Recent Team Building Articles

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

Danger! Don't Hire People Just Like You

Commonalities may be comfortable, but they also create blind spots. You want lieutenants who provoke feuds and dissent.  Read more

How Spanx Grew 

Sara Blakely talks about how she picks team members, handles public relations, and avoids paying for advertising.  Watch video

Boards: The Right Person To Lead One

The best chairman or chairwoman is a mentor, sounding board, and listener.  Read more

Don't Like All Your Employees?

That might be a good thing. Here's why. (Hint: It has to do with your brain--and theirs.)  Read more