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Kimberly Luffman
How Teams Improve: Team coaching isn't team building (and the ropes course isn't either)
When I suggest to a leadership team that they spend some time working on how they work together, I quite often get told, very politely, that they've d...
Kimberly Luffman
How Teams Improve - Summary: Top seven ways that teams actually get better
A few weeks ago we wrapped up Teams Matter, a series making the case that teams matter more than most organisations act like they do. The question I g...
Kimberly Luffman
How Teams Improve: Sharing leadership pays off by changing what a team believes it can do
Shared leadership is one of my favourite things to talk about. It's also one of the things I'm most careful about how I talk about, because I've seen ...
Kimberly Luffman
Inside Perspective podcast: Organisations develop people, almost none develop teams (full conversation)
I recently joined Karolynn Hardy, a long-time thought partner of mine, on the Inside Perspective podcast for a conversation about teams (we shared a q...
Kimberly Luffman
How Teams Improve: Training a team makes it better — whoever is on it
When Super Rugby launched in 1996, Australian rugby had two established powers and a brand-new third franchise in Canberra - “The Brumbies”. They were...
Kimberly Luffman
Start with the team: Collective versus individual development in organisations
Two conversations in the past few weeks have been rattling around in my head, and I think they belong together. The first was with a people and cultur...
James Luffman
How Teams Improve: Team development works, in the right format
Most organisations have tried to improve teamwork by teaching people about it. A session, a model, some slides on communication styles. Attendance is ...
Kimberly Luffman
Teams Matter - Summary: Top ten reasons why teams really matter
Over the past few weeks we've published eight "Teams Matter" articles on the TeamHive blog, each one working through a piece of research on teams. Goo...
Kimberly Luffman
Teams Matter: Half the leadership in organisations usually isn't measured
Ask an organisation how it measures leadership and you'll get a clear answer. 360s on leaders. Leadership capability frameworks. Succession assessment...
Kimberly Luffman
Teams Matter: Team processes are the primary leverage point for enhancing team effectiveness
In 2015 the US National Research Council — part of the National Academies — published a review pulling together decades of empirical research on what ...
James Luffman
Teams Matter: How Google discovered that team dynamics trumps team composition
The most interesting thing about Google's "Project Aristotle" isn't the finding. It's the prior expectation it overturned, and who held it. What Goo...
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Kimberly discusses teams on Inside Perspective Podcast
It was so fun talking with Karolynn Hardy about teams! Teams are the next frontier for those of us in the development space. As technology handles mo...
Kimberly Luffman
Teams matter: Your team has an intelligence of its own — and it isn't its smartest member
I've sat in rooms full of genuinely brilliant people and watched them produce mediocre work. I've also sat with teams that looked unremarkable on pap...
Kimberly Luffman
Teams Matter: Aligned top teams are almost twice as likely to deliver above-median financial performance
Everyone agrees teams matter. Nobody quite believes it belongs in the same conversation as capital allocation or market entry. McKinsey's Center for C...
Kimberly Luffman
Teams Matter: The everyday mechanics of teamwork predict performance — and satisfaction
The mechanics of working together predict what a team produces There is a category of team research that gets less attention than it deserves, becau...
Kimberly Luffman
Teams Matter: Team effectiveness is one of the best-evidenced fields competing for your development budget
Have you ever heard a colleague say something like this: we'd love to invest in team development, but it's hard to justify — the evidence just isn't t...
Kimberly Luffman
Teams Matter: Teamwork predicts performance
If you have ever sat through a presentation on team effectiveness with your arms folded, you probably had a version of this objection ready. Most of t...
Kimberly Luffman
Ted can't coach soccer (Shared Leadership in Ted Lasso)
Ted Lasso is a comically bad football coach, and Richmond finishes second. Nate Shelley is a genuinely brilliant one, and West Ham falls apart. The co...
Kimberly Luffman
The Diamond Dogs, and the cost of an unseen voice (Unity in Ted Lasso)
There's a moment in Ted Lasso I keep coming back to, and on the face of it it's completely ridiculous. When something is weighing on one of the coache...
Kimberly Luffman
How the best teams learn together (Learning in Ted Lasso)
I'm still making my way through rewatching Ted Lasso, slowly, an episode at a time and usually later at night than I mean to. Last week I got to the s...
Kimberly Luffman
What is a team actually for? (Purpose in Ted Lasso)
A wandering thought about a fictional football club — and the quiet question underneath almost every team I’ve worked with. I didn’t plan to write ab...
Kimberly Luffman
High Performing Teams don't have the absence of dysfunction
The highest performing teams don't all have the absence of dysfunction. They have the presence of functioning—they operate effectively enough and have...
Kimberly Luffman
What McKinsey said: More evidence for our “contrarian” take on teams
Every now and then, a piece of research comes along that makes you quietly nod along as you read it. Not because it says something wildly new. More be...
Kimberly Luffman
Why PLUS and TeamHive 360?
If you've read my previous posts about my journey into TeamHive, you know a bit about the journey the Brave Insights team and I have been on over the ...
Kimberly Luffman
TeamHive's free diagnostic now open to all
Back in November, I invited my network to try the free diagnostic. It was a quiet launch — invite code, limited access, a chance for people I'd worked...
James Luffman
My TeamHive Story
Hi! I’m James Luffman, former founder of Solcast, husband of TeamHive founder Kimberly Luffman, and Executive Director at TeamHive where I focus on pr...
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About PLUS: S is for Shared Leadership
If you’re a leader who feels like everything rolls up to you, and your team feels dependent, hesitant, or disempowered, you don’t have a “people probl...
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About PLUS: U is for Unity
Two of the most common complaints we hear about teams are: Underneath both is the same issue: Unity. In the PLUS model, Unity isn’t about everyone ag...
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About PLUS: L is for Learning
Most teams say they’re “learning all the time”. But if you scratched the surface, how often do you see: That’s what weak Learning looks like. The Lea...
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About PLUS: P is for Purpose
If your team is busy, but no one is entirely sure whether you’re busy on the right things, you probably have a Purpose problem. In the PLUS model, Pu...
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About PLUS: A practical, evidence‑based lens on how your team really works
If you’ve led a team for more than five minutes, you’ll know this: it’s not the strategy deck or the org chart that makes or breaks you. It’s how your...
Kimberly Luffman
Reflections from NextEd’s High‑Performing Teams Program
When I wrote a short LinkedIn post about a recent High‑Performing Teams workshop with leaders from publicly-listed private education provider NextEd G...
Kimberly Luffman
Sharing TeamHive with my network
If you’ve read my earlier posts, you’ll know I’ve been sharing the journey of how we got here—how years of working with leaders and teams led me to se...
Kimberly Luffman
Into the world of research
The next stop on our Team Effectiveness "journey" was collaborative research. I had the insights about the power of teams, the learnings from Marty Li...
Kimberly Luffman
A little more about my Team Effectiveness journey
Sharing a little more about my Team Effectiveness journey.. I had been focusing on individual leadership development at this point for over a decade, ...
Kimberly Luffman
How did I end up down this Team Effectiveness road?
Team Effectiveness has grabbed me so tightly that I want to share more about the journey that brought me here. I'd been working in or with leadership ...