Learning doesn’t always happen in a classroom. Research on learning shows that even within an hour, people can forget about 50% of the information. So when our team of learning and development spec...

Google's manager research revealed that effective managers show care for their teams not only professionally, but personally as well. Professionally, managers can develop their teams by offering ...

Much of the work done at Google, and in many organizations, is done collaboratively by teams. The team is the molecular unit where real production happens, where innovative ideas are conceived and...

To learn more about team effectiveness, check out the re:Work guide Understand team effectiveness for the full story on Google's team effectiveness research as well as tools to help teams foster p...

The moonshot factory X, formerly Google X, is home to the self-driving car and balloon-powered internet, and according to Teller, failure is the way to advance those audacious projects. Encouragin...

Of the five key dynamics of effective teams that the researchers identified, psychological safety was by far the most important. The Google researchers found that individuals on teams with higher p...

Dr. Lauren Blackwell Landon, a research scientist at the NASA Johnson Space Center, spoke at the re:Work 2016 event about preparing a team to go to Mars. The astronauts will live and work together...

Calhoun, who in addition to writing also produces and directs, has worked with with many teams to make different stories come alive. Calhoun spoke at the re:Work 2016 event about how the creative ...

What sets your best teams apart from the rest? Speaking at an event, people analyst Julia Rozovsky discussed what an internal research team discovered about building effective teams at Google. The...

Even those at the top of organizational hierarchies are not exempt from the fear of speaking up. Consider this vignette from our field research. A senior executive had recently joined a successful ...

The newest re:Work guide, "Understand team effectiveness," includes the story of how the research project came to be (as seen previously in The New York Times), the hypotheses the people analysts s...

Charles Duhigg, editor at the The New York Times and author of Smarter, Faster, Better, spoke about what makes for an effective team at the 2016 re:Work event. He argues that while successful team...