Teamwork Lab: Improving our ways of working
Created Jun 23, 2021, Last active Sep 9, 2025
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No matter how old you are - there's always something new to learn. I've been working with the Atlassian products a LONG time (2006) 99% of the time on the server/data center platform, and now 1% clo...
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Read recommend: "Successful Women Speak Differently, 9 Habits That Build Confidence, Courage, & Influence" by Valorie Burton Key Points: 1) Keep the end in mind when you begin. 2) Take...
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Happy half-year anniversary, Teamwork Lab! Er, belated anniversary milestone, since we crossed that mark a couple of weeks ago. In honor of that: did you know that at 6 months old, human babie...
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Context Many have recurring one-on-ones with their managers or project leads. Many have one-on-ones with people they work with regularly as they need regular time with people they need to work with...
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Teamwork has never been more important than it is right now. And good, effective teamwork? That comes from teams made up of people with diverse skill sets and backgrounds who approach and view the wo...
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In the last year, I've been consuming audiobooks and learning so much! Let's help each other find our next book reads (or which books to avoid). Pick one of these prompts or both! Share a book ...
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In our modern lives/jobs, we often tend to (we're requested to?) aim for reaching a maximum in every situation. Though we're eventually wide of the mark in term of reaching any optimum. There's a sa...
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I understand that... Things don't always go according to plan and customers react differently to what we put out to the public. We can develop work to the best of our abilities, but sometimes t...
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In extension of the Three Cs of Communication by @Rose Eliff , which focus on the "sender" role.. The "Receiver" role in a communication process is at least as important as the "Sender" r...
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Tip: Whether in an email, voicemail or on conference call, when communicating with others remember: Be Clear Be Concise Be Correct Relevance: After reading an email or being in a conferenc...
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Advice: Always give yourself and your team enough time to think and organize your work-life schedule in a balanced and efficient way. Relevance for today: With the re...
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Advice: Use every day or at least every other day 15 minutes for an informal exchange within your team, just like you would chat at your office coffee machine. Relevance for ...
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Advice Data points don't tell a full story, and as humans, we often fill in the gaps based on what we think is most likely true. However, this mad libs exercise is often taken as fact when we w...
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As a SME and developer customizing JIRA on a daily basis a good understanding of the processes of team I am creating the project for is so very exponentially important. It is amazing how teams just d...
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Advice Einstein said once: “I Would Spend 55 Minutes Defining the Problem and then Five Minutes Solving It”. When your team try to see results, taking time to define the real problem or main ...
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It's the teams responsibility to make sure everyone else in the team is okay, encourage the whole team to check-in on each other occasionally, let's bring back those water-cooler moments.
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Advice Most people make a lot of things more urgent than they need to be. It's important to remind your team that they're not always expected to do things right away. Clear co...
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Advice We all know the feeling of “FOMO” or fear of missing out when it comes to working. You may feel like your entire work will crumble without you steering every single thing on time and ...
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Advice Organizations must take Mental Health Safety just as seriously as physical safety and adopt a risk management approach by identifying Psychosocial Hazards in their workplace. When I talk...
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My tip for 2022 more effectively working with teams is to ensure that all members of the team have an opportunity on stage. That is ensure that each member has a chance to run your regular meetings. ...
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Do you have a coworker whose pet gets as much screen time on Zoom as they do? Tag them and their furry friends. We'd love to see them! 🐾
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Advice We cannot choose the emotions or feelings we are going to feel. But when we think we can know the reason and start dealing with it or try and go our way confidently. Relevance for today No ...
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The Lesson: With remote and hybrid work, we're all using different tools in different ways. Even if you've been working a certain way since the initial shift-to-remote in 2020, it's okay to raise y...
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Advice We can't always see what's going on in someone else's life, but we should assume that everyone is working toward the same goal with the best of intentions. Even if it appears that some...
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Advice Ensure psychological safety as broadly as possible, so that people/the team feel free to fail. Of course the important part is to learn from it. Incorporate fun with a Fail Wall...or the li...
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Description
Greetings, Changemakers, Welcome to the Teamwork Lab! From individual teams to entire companies, people have shared beliefs, rituals, and operating principles. It is these human engagements that make up the magic behind memorable, successful teams. This group gets that. We are leaders of the humanity in teamwork. We seek to improve our teams, our companies, and ourselves, coaching each other and sharing lessons learned.
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