Health and Safety and TeamworkFeb 16, 2023 It’s All Fun and Games Until You’ve Created a Hostile Work Environment: How Workplace Bullying is Linked to Mental Health Key Points: Workplace bullying has been linked to negative outcomes of health and mental illness. Although depression, anxiety, stress, and burnout were all associated with being bullied. Symptoms of depression were most consistently. Anxiety and stress fall into two categories: Generalized anxiety and PTSD, which had stronger relationships with workplace bullying. Similarly, burnout symptoms wereContinue Reading
Organizational Development and Performance Management and TeamworkJan 16, 2023 “Working together”: Does it really matter for Team Performance? Key Points: Team collaboration is not fixed; embedding it is a great target for organizational improvement. Teams can be designed for collaboration. Focus on building collaboration into tasks and outcomes the team is pursuing. Team collaboration can impact how we think, act, and feel about our teammates. In turn, it improves performance. This Evidence-Based Summary hasContinue Reading
Teamwork and Training and DevelopmentJul 15, 2019 Team Building: How to Get Real Results from Team Building Activities Key points Team building interventions have three essential characteristics which clarify the confusion around the term and help differentiate it from other interventions aimed at teams; Team building interventions improve team members’ feelings and team interactions, but don’t have a considerable effect on team performance; Effective team building activities are not only fun, but mustContinue Reading
Featured and TeamworkMay 14, 2018 Effective team communication? Focus on quality! Effective team communication has many benefits. If you are concerned that poor team communication may be costing your business money, keep reading. In this Evidence Summary, we outline some of the latest science on how you can improve communication within your team.Continue Reading