by Brandi Olson | Leadership, Teams
4 Ways to Cultivate Human-Centered Accountability in Your Organization When I teach organizations how to build self-managing, high-performing agile teams, one question ALWAYS comes up. It’s always a variation on: but how will we hold people accountable? Accountability...
by Brandi Olson | Productivity, Teams
The Cultural Illusion That’s Keeping Your Organization Inefficient During a recent live podcast discussion, my client had a confession for me: Her organization was in the process of shifting to a 4-day work week and the mood of the team wasn’t what she was...
by Brandi Olson | Leadership, Teams
The Active Ingredient Every High Performing Team Needs How do you create the spark that elevates a perfectly decent team to a truly high performing team? How does a team create a dynamic that allows everyone to consistently show up and ship their very best work? And...
by Brandi Olson | Leadership
How to recognize and cultivate psychological safety in your organization (and why it’s vital that you do). “How can leaders recognize whether their organization cultivates psychological safety?” I was recently asked this question during a panel discussion, and I was...
by Brandi Olson | Leadership, Planning & Strategy
What can you control when the future is unpredictable? Welcome to December, where winter has arrived in my part of the far northern hemisphere. It’s impossible to predict exactly when the snow will arrive and how the winter season will settle in, but every single year...