Times of crisis can trigger innovation—if leaders can guide the perception of a crisis, and if leaders understand how each team member responds to them. Study Abstract — Although a crisis provides room for creativity, organizations often suffer from creativity deficits in such a situation. Indeed, threat-rigidity theory suggests that an employee-experienced crisis may hinder employee creativity.

A good communication strategy glues a business together. A bad communication strategy can pull it apart. An effective manager is always looking for the best mediums of communication for their business, but workplace communication isn’t just a matter of keeping in touch. Truly effective communication strategies mean understanding that your team consists of individuals with unique personalities and different communication styles in the workplace.

Whether your distributed workforce engages in real-time or asynchronous work—or both—research points to three systems that support it all. Study abstract: Collaboration is critical to organizations and difficult when work is distributed. Prior research has indicated that when individuals are distributed, organizations respond by structuring their work to decrease reciprocal interdependence, reduce the complexity of tasks that individuals perform, or accept moderate inefficiencies.

What is an intranet? It’s a powerful tool used within organizations to facilitate, support and improve internal communication and collaboration. But it goes well beyond that, and you’ll want to take inventory of your intranet’s capabilties to ensure its offering everything it can be!

Valued, trusted, supported, safe, and satisfied: This is the mental state of an engaged employee. But employees will not find these feelings themselves. Our list of employee engagement focus areas will help!

Imagine this scenario: you are about to present to a group of people you've never met before. As you take the stage, all eyes are on you, and you feel a wave of nervousness wash over you. The first thing you need to do is introduce yourself, but how do you do it in a way that captures their attention and leaves a lasting impression? Introducing yourself during a presentation can be daunting, especially if you're not used to speaking in front of a large audience.

Mattermost Boards is an easy-to-use and lightweight tool to manage your backlog, plan your sprints, and so much more! Create fully customizable boards to track tasks and bugs. Boards are updated instantly as soon as any changes are made, so your teams can stay in sync with a single source of truth. For teams looking for a lightweight open source alternative to Jira, Azure DevOps, or Asana to manage Agile workflows, Boards is a great choice.

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