Teamwork Lab
Created Jun 23, 2021, Last active Jul 3, 2025
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In our Work Smarter, Not Harder webinar, we shared some of our top strategies to transform the way you work, communicate, and lead your team. Now, we want to hear yours! Join the competition: Rec...
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Work smarter, not harder! Learn the 3 habits of top performers and earn a badge for sharing Featured
In the recent Team Playbook x Teamwork Lab webinar - Work Smarter, Not Harder - we shared our top three habits to transform the way you work, communicate, and lead your team. Plus: Create a Loom...
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Calling all Jira, Confluence, and Loom users! Do you want to empower your teams to make a bigger impact? Break down silos once and for all? Cut down on meetings while keeping work moving and ...
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While the general idea of team building often stirs up collective groans, how else do you ensure your teams have a strong foundation? When team building is done right, it feels less like trust falls ...
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Mentorship is an important part of management, but it’s not without its challenges. Whether you’re a mentor or a mentee, the right approach can make all the difference. In this month’s Work Life bl...
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📌. Welcome to the Teamwork Lab! Featured
Our members are an active work in progress. That means we seek to improve ourselves, and because of that energy, seek to improve our environment and the teams we work with as well. Have you eve...
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Long meetings are a problem, but not THE PROBLEM The root cause is invisible on the board Tickets/ Work Items that can’t answer their own questions. When a ticket is vague, the team fills th...
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Working harder isn't always the key to success - the real power lies in working smarter. In our 60-minute live webinar, we'll show you how to adopt the 3 key habits that can transform the way you w...
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I'm an American Sign Language Interpreter who works with a SWE and their Servicing team. I've worked in this role for about 6 months and am eager to learn more about how we can improve our outp...
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That “drowning in meetings” feeling? You’re not alone. A while back, I shared something an engineer posted on Reddit: “Since switching to Scrum, my entire days are nothing but meetings.” It stu...
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Fixing a bug in prod can cost up to 100x more than fixing it during design. Wild, right? But it happens all the time. Someone makes a tiny assu...
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This is one of the most powerful habits I wish remote teams adopted more. Documenting everything. Not because you love writing things down for the sake of it. But because clear, accessible docu...
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It was an unexpected career boost when my daily routine changed because of Arnold, a ball of fur shaped like a very, very, very long dog. Initially, this article was only part of my mont...
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Radical Transparency isn’t about exposing people — it’s about elevating teamwork. In Agile, DevOps, and DevEx, performance isn’t a solo act — it’s only ever about the team. At Umano, we’ve lear...
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Are you a natural goal getter, or do you need a bit of a nudge from your friends, family, or manager? While I love setting personal goals, working towards them methodically, and achieving them, my pr...
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need support and patient
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Five years ago, engineering teams made decisions on the fly ✅ Whiteboard sessions ✅ Hallway chats ✅ Emergency meetings Today, we’re scattered across continents and time zones. Decisions un...
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Async isn’t just in-sync work with a delay. It’s a different rhythm entirely. Trying to force meeting centric tools into async workflows doesn’t work because they rely on live participation, fa...
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Slack threads only feel productive in the moment. But they’re terrible for long-term memory. They get buried. Derailed. Disconnected from actual work. Async teams need something more than “ju...
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Everyone’s talking about AI. But most teams aren’t set up to benefit from it. According to Atlassian’s State of Teams 2025 🟣71% of teams say they aren’t using AI effectively to manage or di...
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Play: Roles & Responsibilities Why I intend to run it: Clear understanding of who is responsible for what can prevent confusion, reduce overlap, and improve accountability within the te...
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What are your team’s biggest workplace challenges? Is it getting everyone on the same page? Finding the right information? Or even keeping track of great ideas? Confluence is on a mission to set kn...
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Teamwork means working together with others towards a common goal. It thrives when team members share trust, mutual respect, and effective communication. Each member understands the...
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...s a True Collaborator A Harvard study introduced the concept of the Cybernetic Teammate—AI as more than a tool, but a partner that: Boosts performance, helping individuals match team-level output....
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What’s the one thing you’ve done that made a real difference in async communication? We’ve been diving deep into async team workflows lately, and I’d love to hear what’s worked (or hasn’t) for oth...
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We’ve all been there—endless stand-ups, status updates, and planning sessions that eat up half the day… but don’t move the needle. What if your meetings actually helped your team get things d...
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I hate how I can't do any meaningful work during this gap between meetings. 😅😅 How do you spend this time??
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Good morning (or afternoon or evening) everyone! My company recently rebranded and we just released our 2025 Goals and restated our Core Values. Each of the Leadership Team members is running sessi...
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Too many founders think async work is just about letting people work whenever they want. But that's missing the point entirely. The truth? Async isn't about time - it's about empowerin...
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I have been in team meetings where, they were basically " free-form discussions." We'd start with good intentions, but two hours later, no real decisions have been made. It was frustr...
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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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