Bracket

05/10/2018

09/11/2017

How does working in fluid teams affect our performance?

In my recent post “Making time for teamwork when there’s too much to do” I explored how to keep up with changes to the world of work. This is becoming more relevant since many more of us are not only working in teams, but are part of multiple teams. As we identify new problems to solve,…

02/11/2017

Teamwork is nothing new, but it's changing. Here's how to adapt and keep up

In 1924, the organisational psychologist Professor Elton Mayo, started a range of research studies at the Hawthorne Works factory to explore the impact that the working environment had on employees productivity (it’s where the term “The Hawthorne effect” comes from, which describes the tendency for…

26/10/2015

My new book “Effective Workshops” is out today! Now available from Five Simple Steps http://bit.ly/1WddF6g ^AC

If you’ve ever had to sit through a bad team or client meeting hoping for a better way, this guide is for you.

22/04/2015

Can You Design Your Way to Great Collaboration? http://buff.ly/1Eat5xO

What if companies started applying the same design principles they use to develop great products and services, to design collaboration in their teams?

14/04/2015

Facilitating your first workshop? Start here. http://buff.ly/1I9bzcG

You’re about to run your first client workshop. There will be quite a few people coming and it seems like a daunting task. You’ve been a participant in some really great workshops before, but you’re...

08/04/2015

What I'm learning about collaboration from social psychology - http://buff.ly/1FBuY5J

Late last year, I took Social Psychology on Coursera which is a course run by Scott Plous of Wesleyan University. I took the course more for personal interests, but it also had the benefit of helping...

31/03/2015

"Collaboration is anything but intuitive" Three books about working with other people http://buff.ly/1DjHtn2

I recently read three books, all loosely on the topic of working with other people: Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t – Simon Sinek Drive: The Surprising Truth About...

27/03/2015

The art of asking questions http://buff.ly/1HCZBr3

I remember when I was growing up, I’d ask my mother how to do something and she’d often respond with “what do you think you should do?”. We’d then have a conversation about the various options...

26/03/2015

Are you really listening? http://buff.ly/1COuw4t

If you were to listen back to a recording of a conversation that you had with a colleague, would you be completely sure about what you heard, and what you had said? This came up as a topic in the twelth...

26/03/2015

The value of visual frameworks in workshops http://buff.ly/1GTNSV1

When you’re in the process of designing a workshop, you’ll be thinking about the right questions to ask your participants. This is more than just sitting around a table and going through the questions...

25/03/2015

Igniting serendipity: a chat with Michael Soto, co-founder of Spark http://buff.ly/1Bm8yS0

A couple years back Nesta, the innovation charity, did a little experiment that caught my eye. They were randomly matching up people in their organisation for coffee meetings, which they called randomised...