Team Elements

10/17/2018

We're thrilled to be a featured partner in the Learning Experience Marketplace alongside , , and others! You can now access our online Team Effectiveness Learning Path and tools at https://bit.ly/2yHrIJ7 through an interactive and social learning experience on the Everwise platform. Learn more about our innovative model and data-centered methods at https://teamelements.com/

08/15/2018

If we can talk about the "mental side of baseball", isn't it time we talk about the mental side of business team performance? Maybe it's time to get you and your team a coach. Contact us at teamelements.com/contact/ for more.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/sports/ken-ravizza-sports-psychologist.html

Ken Ravizza may not be as famous as Joe Maddon, the Cubs manager. But like Maddon, he changed the way people approach and think about baseball.

08/09/2018

"Today more companies are rethinking what teams should focus on and how they are formed." What are you, your team, and your organization doing to stay ahead of the curve? Let's talk and start to unlock the potential of your team!

https://peoplepowered.economist.com/reworking-teamwork

Teamwork is increasingly happening in ad hoc ways, with work done through organically-formed teams.

07/31/2018

The best Problem Solving Teams are those who value and understand the importance of Psychological Safety. "The groups that performed well-treated mistakes with curiosity and shared responsibility for the outcomes. As a result, people could express themselves, their thoughts and ideas without fear of social retribution. The environment they created through their interaction was one of psychological safety."

https://hbr.org/2018/04/the-two-traits-of-the-best-problem-solving-teams

You need both diversity and safety.

07/16/2018

The climate within a team can dramatically impact its effectiveness. Here at Team Elements, we define climate as the internal atmosphere that aligns team behaviors. A positive climate can be described as the right "vibe" or like the team is "clicking".

What kind of climate are you fostering within your team? Is it what you want or are there ways in which you wish it could improve?

https://hbr.org/2018/07/4-ways-to-create-a-learning-culture-on-your-team

Start by hiring curious people.

07/05/2018

While studying factory teams, researchers found that higher levels of interpersonal sensitivity and emotional stability resulted in more-cohesive teams and increased prosocial behavior among team members. Empirical data continues to point us towards collective team strength as having more impact than lone individuals. Want to know more about how you can unlock the potential of your team? Visit our website at teamelements.com

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263237314000802

This study regards team helping behavior as a collective phenomenon that happens at the level of work teams. We argue that both the surface-level demo…

07/02/2018

We've all heard about learned helplessness, but what are you and your team doing to orient towards LEARNED HOPEFULNESS? Read more from our Founder below.

http://teamelements.com/learned-team-hopefulness-subtle-shifts-lead-to-powerful-possibilities/

In the Team Elements coaching practice, when we’re coaching teams who are starting to dig in, there are these little, powerful moments. You can often sense them coming. A focused calmness takes hold, people sit up a little straighter or literally lean in, fidgeting stops and eyes widen. It’s a d...

06/27/2018

Interested in hearing all the ins and outs of effective teamwork? Listen here for the details from an expert in the field.
https://soundcloud.com/ninetothrivehr/005-driving-the-ecosystem-of-effective-teams

For better or for worse, teams are here to stay. Across industries and organizations – in both professional and personal capacities - tasks are increasingly put on teams of individuals. Positive drive

06/26/2018

Google’s research implies that the kinds of people in your team are not as relevant to effectiveness as one might assume. More predictive factors are how clear roles are between team members, how team members interact with one another, and whether individual members values align with team values. Read below for a full explanation of this empirical research or contact us at teamelements.com to take the next step towards clear roles, psychologically safe interactions, and aligned values in your team.

https://hbr.org/2017/01/great-teams-are-about-personalities-not-just-skills

Having the right mix of people is critical.

06/18/2018

Do you have your TEAM googles on?!

If your answer is "what does that even mean?" or "no I lost them years ago" or "I've got them but I need always need a good reminder" then click the link below and read for some valuable insights.

http://teamelements.com/have-my-team-goggles-on/

Previous posts in this series focused on the importance of Teams in our daily lives. They shape so much of our daily interactions. They create a sense of togetherness in a world that often seems alienating. Yet despite their importance, Teams are quite difficult to see in their fullness. And if we c...

09/18/2017

"Business problems today are too big for any one person to solve. Agile teams are much more effective at solving problems than are lone geniuses"

https://hbr.org/2015/09/3-ways-to-encourage-smarter-teamwork

No one person has all the answers.

09/06/2017

"Fostering a spirit of trust is critical for drawing out the best in any group." http://bit.ly/2xNAjce

Few people realize that a group can accomplish what an individual alone cannot do — even when it comes to individual advancement. If you want the next promotion, you have to elbow that hardworking colleague next to you out of the way, right? Wrong. Here’s a true story that shows you why. It started…

08/21/2017

"Organizations that truly want their people to work better together must stop publicly discriminating against teams in favor of individuals."

https://hbr.org/2015/06/reward-your-best-teams-not-just-star-players?referral=03759&cm_vc=rr_item_page.bottom

The case for collective incentives.

08/09/2017

"Research from Harvard University indicates that uplifting co-workers by talking about them positively 'increase general feelings of being socially valued by others, leading to better information exchange and creative performance.'"

https://www.inc.com/scott-mautz/harvard-research-shows-talking-about-your-co-worke.html?cid=email

Talking about your co-workers--in an uplifting way--is more powerful than you might think. Here's how to enable this productive habit.

08/04/2017

"Work is fundamentally collaborative, and interdependent. The best available predictions suggest it will only become more collaborative. The performance focus must shift from individuals to teams, groups, and organizations if we want to make work as collectively productive as possible."

http://www.watoday.com.au/business/workplace-relations/head-20170802-gxnpj0

Trying to understand the performance of a work team by analysing the individual members is as helpful as trying to fully appreciate Beethoven's 9th symphony while listening only to the bassoon.

05/30/2017

HCI's Nine to Thrive interviewed our Principal and Founder, Ben Bratt, on the topic of Teams and what an effective ecosystem looks like. Ben says, "It’s the power of the well placed question, the contagion of noting that things are getting better, and validating the hard effort that leaders and team members are putting in, so that in the end everyone is responsible for their own team.”

For more, listen to the full interview at the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9a-Z0Se0GI&feature=youtu.be

For better or for worse, teams are here to stay. Across industries and organizations – in both professional and personal capacities - tasks are increasingly ...

05/03/2017

Principal and Founder of Team Elements, Ben Bratt, shares his views on the paradox of Teams.

"They [Teams] have become ambient, a part of the daily experience we swim in and the atmosphere we breathe. And, such as ambient things are, paradoxically, they are hard to see and so difficult to understand."

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rise-ubiquity-paradox-team-bennett-bratt

One of the reasons I find it easy to be passionate about helping Teams improve is because they are so deeply woven into our daily experience and

04/24/2017

Blog #3 is out!

"This platform for Team self-assessment and dialogue brings us something incredibly rare: insights about our unique DNA, our Team’s fingerprint."

To read more, click the link below.
http://blog.teamelements.com/2017/04/have-my-team-goggles-on.html

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