Weekly Posts and Insights
Getting the Most Out of Your Work Teams
A practical guide to building high-performance teams through trust, structure, shared accountability, and intentional leadership—designed for modern organizations and leaders.
Tuckman’s Team Development Wheel, Revisited — Part 4: The Performing Stage
Explore the Performing stage of Tuckman’s Team Development Model and learn how high-performing teams achieve shared accountability, distributed leadership, and continuous improvement. This post blends modern research on psychological safety, shared leadership, and team resilience with practical strategies for leaders and coaches to sustain peak performance, empower teams, and navigate inevitable change without losing momentum.
Tuckman’s Team Development Wheel, Revisited — Part 2: The Storming Stage
Explore the Storming stage of Tuckman’s Team Development Model and learn how teams navigate conflict, control issues, and growing pains on the path to high performance. This post offers practical strategies for leaders and coaches to guide teams through turbulence and into true collaboration.
Team Meetings Are Your Playing Field I Direct Application with Matt Harrington
High-performing teams win or lose in their meetings. In Episode 20, Matt Harrington explains why team meetings are the true playing field of organizational performance and shares three practical strategies—structure, shared accountability, and role rotation—to transform meetings into high-impact collaboration.
Why Your Team Struggles to Decide (and What to Do About It)
In too many workplaces, decisions happen by default - through exhaustion, authority, or avoidance - rather than through a clear and fair process. That’s why every high-performing team needs a Decision-Making Protocol in its tool belt of protocols.
A Decision-Making Protocol defines how a team will decide before they actually have to. It’s less about hierarchy and more about equity - making sure everyone understands the process, expectations, and boundaries.
Do Your Team Meetings Have Positions? (They Should.)
Have you ever noticed that players on a sports team have clear positions and skill sets, but in most workplaces, once you walk into a meeting, everyone just… sits down? Other than your job title, you probably don’t have a position in the meeting itself. But you should. High-performing teams understand that meetings are their playing field, and every player needs a defined role.
Why Your Team Meetings Aren’t Working (and What High-Performing Teams Do Differently)
Learn why most team meetings fail and what high-performing teams do differently to make every meeting focused, accountable, and worth everyone’s time.
Conflict in Teams: Why It Happens and How to Handle It Productively
When you have eight to ten people on a high-stakes team, conflict is inevitable. What matters isn’t if you’ll run into it — but how you engage with it. Study after study shows unresolved workplace conflict drains productivity. One report found employees spend roughly 2.8 hours per week on conflict. But when a team accepts conflict as normal and builds a protocol around it, everything changes. This is your second protocol — the one that transforms conflict from destructive to generative.
Leadership’s Long Game: Why Top Commitment is the Bedrock of High-Performance Teams
The real question for any leader isn’t “Do I believe in teams?” It’s “Am I willing to commit - day after day, year after year - to building and protecting the culture that allows them to thrive?”
The One Document Every Team Should Have
High-performing teams don’t happen by accident. A team charter - your team’s roadmap - clarifies mission, goals, roles, and accountability. Drawing on insights from Lencioni, Tuckman, and Deborah Mackin, this post explores why teams stall in the storming stage and how a clear charter acts as a compass to bring them back to alignment, clarity, and results.