Articles on Team Effectiveness

In this Blog, Kimberly Douglas provides an employee's perspective of the future of hybrid work, working remotely, and the potential return to full-time office hours. Based on her research from multiple surveys of employees of all ages, genders, races, roles, and industries, Kimberly identifies key topics and provides links to actual surveys for details.

The role of a leader is to connect strategy to people, acting as the connective tissue. In this post, we’ll discuss how leaders can facilitate the engagement of the work force, including the building of an actionable 30-day plan.

In last week's post we discussed Vroom Yetton, a powerful tool for determining how groups will make decisions. This week I clarify the criteria to the team leader can use to decide the right level of team involvement for your critical decision.

The Vroom Yetton framework can help the leader and team decide how to decide. This post explains the framework and how to use for more effective team decision making.

As a facilitator, I always strive for maximum engagement and shared learning among participants (even when I'm the subject matter expert and presenter). How do I promote this? Sometimes, it's as simple as asking one question.

The Vroom Yetton Decision-Making Model is a technique for determining how much participation is needed or desired to make a specific decision. When you sit down to make a decision, your style, and the degree of participation you need to get from your team, are affected by three main factors. Read on to learn what those are.

FireFly's proven process for facilitating a team discussion to help them identify conflict norms that will enable healthy debate and a decision all can commit to. Bonus: Sample norms you can use to get your team started on the right path.