Google Re:Work - Guides and tools for managers, focusing on team effectiveness and psychological safety
Google's Re:Work initiative provides free, research-backed guides and tools for managers. Their content on "Psychological Safety" (from Project Aristotle) is particularly relevant to team management, offering actionable insights and resources on how to build high-performing, inclusive teams. They offer practical advice and frameworks directly from Google's internal studies.
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Harvard Business Review (HBR) IdeaCast - Team Management Episodes
HBR IdeaCast features leading thinkers in business and management. Many individual episodes are freely accessible and cover various aspects of team management, leadership challenges, and organizational dynamics, often with interviews with authors of influential books or researchers.
High Output Management
Intel CEO Andy Grove's essential management text on leverage, meetings, performance reviews, and systematic approach to maximizing managerial productivity.
re:Work - Guide: Understand team effectiveness
Google's re:Work guide to Project Aristotle, its internal study of what makes teams effective. It explains the five dynamics identified—psychological safety, dependability, structure and clarity, meaning, and impact—and offers tools for discussing and improving them on your own team.
Leading Teams
University of Michigan course on leading teams, covering team composition, aligning goals, roles and structures, decision making, conflict resolution and trust. Learners gain tools to set up, run, evaluate and continuously improve a team while avoiding common coordination and motivation failures.