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How To Pitch An Idea
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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AI & Creativity
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Goal-Setting That Actually Works
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Let's Fix Corporate Jargon in the Workplace
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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What Leaders Get Wrong About Emotional Intelligence
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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How To Lead High-Performers On Your Team
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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14 Life-Changing Books On Leadership
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There's a stack of leadership books I continue to draw from all the time that not only shape how I think, but some that have really changed my min...
How to Manage a Cross-Functional Team (and Not Fall Back Into Silos)
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Managing Your Friends Without Losing Them
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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The Secret to Getting Change to Stick
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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How To Lead A Global, Multicultural Team
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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AI Isn’t a Tool, It’s Your Next Teammate (And Here’s How to Use It)
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Leading Your Team Through Change and Uncertainty
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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What to Do With the B Players On Your Team
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Manage Up to These 3 Types of Bad Bosses
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Is It a Mistake…or a Betrayal? How Great Leaders Rebuild Trust
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Build Trust As A New Leader
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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How To Rebuild Trust On A Team (When It's Your Fault)
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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How Trust Empowers Your Team
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Does Hiring For "Culture Fit" Work?
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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How to Manage Across Generations (Gen Z + Boomers)
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Work-Life Balance Isn't Real
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Should This Meeting Be An Email? Here's How To Decide
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Why You're So Tired At Work
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Active Listening For Leaders
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Download my Best Team Ever PlayBook now! https://davidburkus.kit.com/playbook-ytMost of us think we’re good listeners—but the truth is, we’re ju...
Teach Your Team To Hold Each Other Accountable
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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How to Get Quiet Employees to Speak Up and Contribute
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Why Some Conflict is Actually Good for Your Team
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Leaders vs. Managers: Which One Am I?
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Why Employees First Organizations Thrive
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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5 Things New Managers Need To Do In Their First Week
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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AI and Leadership: The Smart Way for Managers to Use Artificial Intelligence
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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An Alternative to Performance Reviews (Retain Your Team, Don't Grade Them!)
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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The Truth About Employee Engagement Surveys
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Do We Really Need Managers?
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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How To Inspire Your Team (Meaning + Impact)
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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How To Fix Collaboration On Teams
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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How To Create More Trust On Teams (Hint: Psychological Safety)
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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How To Manage Team Conflict
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Conflict within a team is an inevitable part of any work environment. The diverse perspectives, ideas, and solutions that team members bring to the ta...
5 Questions Great Leaders Always Ask
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It may seem like leaders need to have all the answers. Presumably, they became leaders by being smart, hardworking individual contributors who had the...
How Can Teamwork Fail?
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Teamwork is a constant in organizational life. You will work on teams for the majority of your career. Some of those teams will be an uplifting, engag...
6 Tips For Effective Teamwork
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results. However, effective teamwork doesn't just happen; it requires careful pla...
3 Tips To Improve Leadership Skills
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Great leaders aren’t born, they’re made. While it’s tempting to look at stories of great leaders and just assume they’re received some divine ...
Building Psychological Safety At Work
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Psychological safety is the bedrock of a high-performing team. It's more than just trust; it's about fostering a climate of mutual trust and r...
5 Ways To Motivate Your Team
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every team leader knows the importance of keeping their team motivated. The more motivated your team, the more productive they are, and the better res...
Trust In High Performing Teams
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Trust is the bedrock upon which successful teams are built. High-performing teams are characterized by an elevated level of trust. This trust in high ...
4 Types Of Team Conflict
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Conflict on a team is inevitable. On diverse teams, where individuals come from varying backgrounds and possess differing opinions, those opinions wil...
The Foundation of High-Performing Teams
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
High-performing teams are often perceived as having extraordinary talents and capabilities, but they are not that different from regular teams—at le...
Best Icebreakers For Team Meetings
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Icebreakers are not just games or frivolous activities. Many people have memories of cringeworthy and awkward games played under the pretense of “te...
The Single Best Team Building Exercise
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Team building and understanding each other's behavior are crucial elements in creating a strong team culture and creating a high-performing teams....
What Great Managers Do Daily
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Managers make the difference. Middle managers especially play a crucial role in employee engagement and performance. However, many managers lack prope...
One-On-One Meetings With Employees
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One-on-one meetings with employees are a crucial aspect of effective leadership. Organizations spent countless hours, money, and other resources tryin...
How Does Diversity Affect Teamwork?
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s often said by teams that “diversity is our strength.” We take for granted the idea that diverse teams bring more lived experiences, ideas, ...
The Skill of Active Listening
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are you a good listener? You may think you’re a good listener—maybe someone even told you were a good listener. Or maybe not. As a leader, this is...
How To Earn Respect As A Leader
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret Thatcher once famously quipped that “Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.” As a leade...
What Great Leaders Do
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a world of growing complexity and seemingly constant crisis, we need great leaders more than ever. But when you look at the stories in the press or...
How to Make Employees Feel Respected
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Leadership is about relationships. And the cornerstone of just about every relationship is respect. When employees feel respected, they are more engag...
How To Overcome Resistance To Change
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Employee resistance to change is one of the most perplexing and challenging issues that business executives encounter. Senior leaders have mapped out ...
Create A Sense Of Purpose On A Team
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With work and life becoming more intertwined than ever, people increasingly seek purpose through work. So, leaders are being called upon to create a s...
Creating Shared Identity On A Team
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Creating shared identity on a team is crucial to building a high-performing one. Shared identity refers to the extent to which team members feel the s...
Create A Sense Of Belonging At Work
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A sense of belonging on a team is crucial for its success and productivity. Belonging is that sense of acceptance and inclusion when people feel they ...
How To Make People Feel Heard
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most common complaints among disengaged employees is about not feeling heard, not being seen or recognized for what they do, who they are a...
How To Avoid Burnout At Work
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Demands at work have been piling on in recent years. Including the demand on employees to continue to do more with less. And those demands come with a...
How To Get A Team Aligned
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
So much of the struggle of working on teams comes down to one key task: getting a team aligned. Aligned teams lead to better engagement, performance, ...
Building A Culture Of Trust On A Team
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Trust is the foundation of any successful team. Without trust, team members will not feel comfortable sharing their ideas, taking risks, or admitting ...
The Surprising Benefits of Conflict in the Workplace
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Conflict in the workplace is often seen as negative, but it can be productive if managed well. In fact, lack of conflict on a team is the real negativ...
What Makes a Team Smarter?
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most fascinating concepts in the study of teamwork and collaboration is the concept of collective intelligence—the idea that when teams c...
What Science Tells Us About Motivating Your Team
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Keeping a team motivated is the one of the most important aspects of a leader’s job. It’s also one of the most misunderstood aspects of a leader’...
What Makes Employees Happy At Work?
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As long as people remain the center of organizations, attracting, retaining, and motivating those people—keeping them happy at work—will be one of...
5 Habits Of High-Performing Teams
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The world runs on teams. Jobs that could have been solitary at one time or another happen more efficiently and at higher quality because we work in te...
Why Great Teams Embrace Failure (and How to Do It)
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Failure is feedback. And that maxim is nowhere more true than on teams. When individual team members or the whole team experiences a failure, how they...
4 Common Mistakes Managers Make
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Managers make the difference. Senior leaders set strategy. But middle managers and front-line managers make the difference in whether that strategy ge...
5 Simple Ways To Become A Great Leader
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When you start out your career, you’re most often an individual contributor. And in that role your knowledge and skills are most important. But if y...
How To Be A Great Team Player
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our world requires collaboration. Just about every job now requires collaborating on teams and every employee’s calendar is full of evidence of coll...
3 Keys To Good Teamwork
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Teams are how work gets done most of the time. In a knowledge work economy, up to 85% of an average employee’s time is spent in collaboration with o...
Building A Positive Team Culture
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Teams are a central part of our work experience. Jobs that could have been solitary at one time or another happen more efficiently and at higher quali...
4 Ways To Build Inclusive Teams
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At the core of teamwork is the need to solve problems. And when generating solutions, the more diverse a team you have, the more ideas you can generat...
4 Keys To Effective Team Communication
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Communication is what makes a team a team. Otherwise, it’s just a group of individuals working away at their desks, handing work up to some unnamed ...
Celebrate Small Wins On Teams
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Progress is a powerful human motivator. But unfortunately, many teams mark progress only when projects are complete or big milestones are crossed. The...
What Makes A Psychologically Safe Team?
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most consistent findings in organizational behavior over the last decade has been just how significantly team performance is affected by ps...
What Makes A Team Great?
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Work is teamwork. And it’s no secret that some teams truly are greater than others. A recent meta-analysis combined research conducted on over...
How To Foster Collaboration On Teams
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As the world grows increasingly more complex, so will its challenges—both globally and for any given organization. To solve bigger and more complex ...
How To Build Trusting Teams
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Learning how to build trust at work is critical if you’re going to be successful as an employee, a manager, or an effective leader. If you don’t h...
6 Leadership Myths That Are Ruining Your Team
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We all arrive at leadership with certain preconceptions about what makes a successful leader. Sometimes we form an idea of what great leaders do...
5 Challenges All Teams Face
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Teams face a lot of different challenges. Leading a team involves leading through many challenges. You’re given performance objectives. You map out ...
Developing Emotional Intelligence As A Leader
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve known about the importance of developing emotional intelligence as a leader for some time now, but there are still some misconceptions about e...
5 Questions Leaders Should Always Be Asking
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Leaders don’t need to have all the answers. That sounds counterintuitive. There is a lot of pressure on leaders to have the right answers and to sol...
How To Motivate The Unmotivated
02 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Motivation can vary wildly on a team. At any given time, a few people might be highly motivated, while others are totally unmotivated. Ideally, there ...
How To Motivate Your Employees As A Leader
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the core tasks of team leaders is keeping motivation and inspiration high. This doesn’t mean all great leaders are charismatic and inspiring....
How To Build Resilient Teams
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Teams today are asked to do more and more with less and less. The demands on their time have only increased. And so has their uncertainty. That leads ...
What Cover in a Team's Weekly Meeting
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the great mysteries of the modern workplace is that we still assess performance on an individual level, when so much of one’s ability to prod...
The Secrets to High-Performing Teams
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
High-performing teams didn’t just perform a little better, they performed up to ten times better than normal teams. And the explanations for it hint...
5 Skills Leaders Need To Develop
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anyone can be placed in a leadership role. In most organizations, the reward for being an outstanding individual contributor is to be promoted into le...
How To Develop Leadership Skills
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Leaders are constant learners. Or rather, good leaders are constant learners. And aspiring leaders need to be consistent learners as well. Growing int...
4 Powerful Team Building Exercises
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The vast majority of work today is done in teams. And that makes collaboration and teamwork all the more important. But we have a tendency to think of...
How Teams Bond
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever worked for a team of strangers? Not literal strangers. Outside of maybe being an extra on a film set, it’s highly unlikely you showed ...
Feel Stuck At Work | 6 Tactics To Get Unstuck in Your Career
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody feels stuck at work from time to time. You feel like you don’t enjoy doing the work. You feel like you’re not growing, or like you’re ...
4 Types Of Bad Bosses
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are a lot of bad bosses out there. In a recent survey, the majority of workers reported they either had worked or currently work for a micromana...
4 Ways To Improve Your Communication Skills
09 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Teamwork requires communication. Communication is the lifeblood of a team. It’s how leaders and teams coordinate what needs to be done, who needs to...
How To Make New Employees Feel Welcome
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Onboarding has become a rather sterile term. It began as a recognition that how employees start in a new company, or a new role, can have a dramatic e...