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Does Your Team Have An End Zone Dance?
In sports celebrating success is a critical part of the game. it builds momentum, energizes the players and excites the crowd. So why does all of that stop when we step into the workplace? Work teams need an end zone dance! A way they celebrate success in the same ways that sports teams honor and celebrate.
The Crisis of Meeting Ineffectiveness Plaguing Most Organizations
Optimizing meetings remains one of the most underappreciated levers for transformative impact. We spend way too much of our workday in unproductive and unnecessary meetings. In this post, we uncover some of the reasons for ineffective meetings and we propose solutions.
Shared Vision: Beyond the Workshop
In my experience working with leadership teams, vision doesn't live in statements or slides. It lives in people.
From Task Manager to Team Catalyst
At Groove, we often work with leaders who don’t just need to delegate — they need to evolve how their teams make meaning and move together. This story with Charlie is one example.
Recognition Fuels Endurance: Are You Nourishing Your Team?
Endurance in high-growth teams isn’t just about drive — it’s about sustaining energy. Recognition makes that possible.
I Bet You Have Never Applauded on a Video Call
How do you virtually celebrate success? Why not a round of applause on a video call. I dare you to integrate this into your workplace culture.
Purpose Before Team: The Fire Comes First
Simon Sinek told us to Start with Why. He gave us a map, a clear direction: if you want to inspire action, start with purpose. But there’s something that happens before the map gets unfolded, before the team gathers, before the first meeting begins.
There’s a fire.
Using Spiral Dynamics to Navigate Leadership and Organizational Growth
This article explores Spiral Dynamics, a powerful framework for understanding organizational and leadership development through evolving value systems.
What Are The Key Steps To Scaling Up A Team?
As revenue grows, there is increased pressure on teams to scale up as well. There are key steps required to scale a team and an organization. In this blog post we explore the key steps.
Seven Key Principles of a Learning Organization
Becoming a learning organization isn’t some end goal — it’s like claiming to be “an enlightened person.” It’s about continuous growth and reflection. The real key is committing to the process and always evolving.
With that in mind, here are seven foundational principles of learning organizations that I believe are worth remembering—and applying:
Navigating Group Dynamics: From Forming and Storming to Norming and Performing
The Bruce Tuckman model for team development that includes forming, storming, norming and performing is familiar to most, but the model oversimplifies a dynamic and more complex process that teams go through. In this article we explore the complexities of navigating team dynamics
Seven Insights from a Virtual Workshop Series
In this blogpost, we illustrate what it takes to build an effective virtual workshop series for leaders of a successful company.
Does Your Culture Handcuff or Unleash Your Talent?
High potential employees thrive in a culture that unleashes their talents and they get frustrated and leave organizations that constrain them.
Organizational Swim Lanes and Silos
There is a balance that must be achieved in an organization or else too much structure can turn organizational swim lanes into silos.
Iconic Core Values
Utilizing icons can help bring your organization’s core values to life. Iconography is a simple way to illustrate the meaning behind your core values.
Timeout: The premise and the promise of enhanced performance
Calling timeout in sports is a strategic move to help win games, yet in business few leaders ever call timeout. Learn more about Groove Management’s approach to team timeouts.
Collaborating for the Good of Others
Groove Management’s Charity Bike Build Challenge is a great team building workshop with a special give back component. Teams foster collaboration while assembling bicycles that they then gift to children in need.
Office Monsters or Culture Crusaders?
If you want employees to return to the office are you framing the ask properly? CNBC has been calling Wall Street CEOs Office Monsters. What if they referred to them as Culture Crusaders instead and focused on the positives? Would that change the dialogue?
The Riptide Effect: A Sales Shift from Geographic Alignment to Vertical Alignment
A riptide is a dangerous condition that can suck a swimmer or a surfer out to sea. Rather than fighting the current, one must swim or paddle with it. This approach that we refer to as the riptide effect is an effective metaphor for driving organizational change. In this post, we discuss how technology and the pandemic have created a riptide in the way organizations needs to approach sales.