Psychological safety in teams

When researcher Amy Edmondson went to investigate the thesis that high-performing teams have fewer reported mistakes than other teams, she discovered that it was just the opposite - there were more reported mistakes in high-performing teams. Why? There was psychological safety in these teams - they dared to talk about mistakes and saw it as an opportunity for learning and development....

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How to be more efficient

Efficiency = doing the right things in the right way We often confuse the word efficiency with the word productivity. But they are not the same thing. Productivity is about what you do and produce, while efficiency is when we achieve a desired result with the least possible resistance. So efficiency focuses only on how we do things. And it sounds like...

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10 tips - checklist for good hybrid meetings

Leading hybrid meetings can be a challenge. It means you need to turn two different experiences into one. Our best tip is to try to make the digital participants more "real" and the "real" ones more digital. Mix the experiences so that it's more even. Here are 10 ways to create participation and engagement for everyone! What is...

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Checklist: 11 tips for effective meetings

Here's how to create effective, enjoyable meetings that everyone wants to attend. 11 tips to make meetings fun. Good luck creating a great meeting culture that makes your colleagues love Mondays! Is that enough? Why not try the Teamr app?

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Sunday anxiety: save your team from Sunday anxiety

Of course everyone should love Mondays. Stomach ache is not okay. If you or someone on your team has constant Sunday blues, here are some thoughts and suggestions on what it's caused by and what you can do about it. Remember, Sunday blues can also be a sadness that the great weekend or holiday...

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Trust the Teamr process: what it's like to work with Teamr

In any team, there are things that work well and things that don't. With Teamr, we get more of what's good and we get tools to improve what's not so good. Teamr is friendly, playful and very hands-on. No mumbo-jumbo. Simple, straightforward exercises that make you think and collaborate better....

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After action review - what is it? Let the team reflect after action

One of the characteristics of effective teams is that they are good at evaluating and adjusting their behaviour even under stress. Here we summarize the "after action review". The English terms are reflect after action or experience feedback. What are after action reviews? A plan that a team follows to achieve a goal, needs to be evaluated and adjusted...

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Effective meetings - take care of everyone's time

Who doesn't love to walk out of a room and feel "what a rewarding meeting!"? And is it even possible to have efficiency and fun at work with pointless and boring meetings? No! Here's how to have fun at work through good meeting culture. Most people who work in offices spend a third of their...

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A large Swedish company built great teams using Teamr

How do you create good teams? A large Swedish company with more than 50,000 employees took help from Skillnad and developed Teamr. After one year, the pilot teams were on average 15% better. The result after using Teamr for a year was that the company raised its score in Teamr's quality survey by an average of 15 percent....

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How to unwind (slowly) after the holidays

Well, the free days were over. The holidays are over, back to work. And it's ages until Christmas! Here's how to oil up the machinery. Get it going slowly so you last a long time. Tip 1 A week before work starts, go to bed early. Then your body and mind are ready. Nice. ❤...

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What is a team? And what is a group?

A team is two or more individuals who depend on each other to achieve their goals. Cooperation is essential to achieve the goal - the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. If cooperation is not required, it is not a team but a group. Get help to become a dream team. Try Teamr Team available...

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Fun at work - 14 tips for loving Mondays

Life is made up of weekdays - let's make the most of them. Here's a vitamin boost for those who want to take their work to the next level. Teamrbuilding that works - Try Teamr Most people work eight hours a day. Of course we should make those days as fun as possible, to the extent we can influence of course....

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Teambuilding activities: find the right teambuilding activity

All teams need team building. Here are examples of great team building activities that everyone can join in and most people enjoy. We've collected fun, exciting, relaxing, cheap, tasty, educational and crazy ideas. Start by answering the questions: what's our budget? What do we want to achieve with the team building activity, what is the purpose? The answer...

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The Teamr app made Poolia's teams more efficient

Two teams at Poolia found that they became more effective with the Teamr app. Read more about it and see what makes effective teams. When recruitment company Poolia tested the Teamr tool on two of its teams, employee survey results improved and profitability increased. - I think a lot of it is due to Teamr, which they...

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