Team Habits: How Small Actions Lead to Extraordinary Results
Coming August 29, 2023
With all the reasons why it seems like working in teams should be easy, it’s surprising that it’s (often) so hard.
The common approaches to improving team performance and belonging try to change individuals on the team, but that doesn’t work well because the team’s habits endure. People come and go, but the team operates mostly the same.
If you want to improve your team, there’s a simpler and more effective route: create better team habits. This is precisely what Team Habits shows you how to do.
"Team Habits is the modern business handbook that should sit on every manager's desk."
–Pamela Slim, author, Body of Work and The Widest Net
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More About Team Habits
We know how important habits are for personal productivity. But the truth is we rarely work alone: reaching our goals depends on how effectively we work with others, and teams have their own habits that can help — or hinder — success.
We’re already practicing team habits — it’s just a question of whether they’re good team habits or bad ones. The deluge of cc threads from hell are bad team habits that can be changed. Having free-for-all meetings without an agenda is a team habit that can be changed. BS goals and dashboards that no one pays attention to but take a lot of work to maintain and report on are team habits that can be changed.
Your team doesn’t rise to the sum of its members’ capabilities; it falls to how it practices good team habits that create great results and belonging.
From the Team Habits Quiz, where you’ll identify the habits you need to build (or break), to a Roadmap for putting them into practice, this book is full of clear, simple actions to:
- Run more productive meetings and eliminate the crutch meetings that eat up so much time
- Eliminate pointless emails and messages
- Make better, swifter decisions
- Learn how to resolve small team friction points before they create interpersonal conflict
- And create a sense of belonging
Team Habits is the difference between teamwork that feels like a struggle, and collaboration that empowers everyone to deliver their best.
"There are a lot of business, team building, and leadership works that I read once, take a few notes, then set aside. I might seek the book out and reference it once or twice after that, but mostly the book sits quietly in its place on my bookshelf. Team Habits is not that book. In fact, Team Habits has never managed to even make it to my bookshelf, as it continues to have an important space on my desk where I can reference it again and again. I find myself thumbing through Team Habits during team meetings, coaching sessions, and networking calls. In so many situations when I am looking for an answer, Team Habits pops up in my brain and I am sharing the material to support someone. Team Habits isn’t filled with a lot of “filler” and theory, instead it is filled with information and ideas you can take action on. Definitely a worthy business/team/leadership book for your desk (not your bookshelf)."
–Jeremie Miller, Executive Director, RAFT – Resilience for Advocates through Foundational Training
About Charlie Gilkey
Charlie Gilkey helps people start finishing the stuff that matters. He's the founder of Productive Flourishing, author of Start Finishing (2019) and The Small Business Lifecycle (2012), as well as the host of the Productive Flourishing podcast.
Charlie has over nearly 20 years of fieldwork that incorporates systems thinking, strategy execution, leadership and organizational development, practical innovation, and communication. His experience includes leading 200+ soldiers in the U.S. Army, 14 years consulting leaders in various industries in for-profit and nonprofit industries, writing award-winning books, and serving on various boards.
At heart, Charlie is a team guy. As challenging as leading and working in teams can be, there are few things as sublime as seeing your team come together and get a great job done. He believes every team, everywhere has the potential to be that kind of team — and when we make working in teams better, we make work better, which means we make people’s lives better.
