Resources

How to help teams realize their full potential

a primer

Nick Walsh

Range raises $6 million in seed funding to help organizations build successful teams

Dan Pupius

Servant: Your role as a leader in the modern workforce

An interview with Medium’s Chief Architect Xiao Ma on putting the concept of servant leadership into practice

Michael Boykin

How Icebreaker questions can help you build better teams in 2020

... and 10 of our favorites

Nick Walsh

How GitLab and InVision hire and onboard remote teammates

Takeaways from Range’s Meetup panel on hiring remote teammates

Jennifer Dennard

Leadership reading list

A collection of essential books that meaningfully affected our team

Daniel Pupius

How to lead a distributed team

4 tips on what to do when your team is suddenly split across two or more locations

Jennifer Dennard

The power of critique: How to improve feedback on your team

Braden Kowitz

Why culture is paramount for design teams

An interview with Sarah Alpern, VP of Design at LinkedIn

Braden Kowitz

An introduction to psychological safety

Why creating a climate of openness in the workplace matters, and how to do it

Michael Boykin

11 ways our brains trip us up at work

Understanding how cognitive biases affect us in the workplace

Dan Pupius

Are you doing OKRs right?

A conversation with OKR-expert Ken Norton from Google Ventures

Braden Kowitz

How you can build trust on your team in a few minutes a day

Jennifer Dennard

Standups are broken

There's a better way to keep everyone connected

Braden Kowitz

So you want to be an engineering manager

Insights and advice from engineering leaders who have been where you are today

Jennifer Dennard

4 key takeaways from our webinar on remote employee engagement

How leadership shapes the remote employee experience

Michael Boykin

The software you need to lead a distributed engineering team

What to consider when adopting software for distributed engineering teams

Cathy Reisenwitz

Where to begin when hiring for remote work

An interview with Joe Cheung, Operating Partner, Talent at Craft Ventures

Michael Boykin

How to build trust in the workplace and succeed

Trust in your colleagues is a great motivator. Here are 6 actionable strategies to build trust on your team.

How Replicated reengaged remote team members in building company culture

A Range customer story

Michael Boykin

How to make cross-functional collaboration work at your company and reap all the benefits

What is cross-functional collaboration, why it matters, and how to become a team that plays well with others

The first-time manager—5 practical tips for navigating the challenges of managing people

What to consider before you embark on a new career as a manager

Kaloyan Yankulov

The essential guide to the 22 most common leadership styles

Get to know the 22 types of leadership from the 3 most common personality profiling tools. Which of the leadership types is yours?

Kaloyan Yankulov

7 powerful team-building questions to help you build trust and connections at work

Start improving team dynamics and effectiveness, and access a resource of over 200 icebreaker questions

Michael Boykin

3 new approaches to improving teamwork in the workplace

A guide on how to promote effective teamwork on your team and in the workplace

The weekly work plan: A template for success

A complete guide on how to plan and optimize your work week

Understanding and learning to manage your micromanaging boss

5 reasons your micromanaging boss is micromanaging you and how to work toward greater autonomy

6 lessons in leadership learned from Plato’s Elevate Summit

Tips and advice for building and managing high-performance product and engineering teams

Braden Kowitz

The complete guide to the daily standup meeting agenda

7 things you need to know and embrace to run the most effective standup meetings on your team

How company culture impacts your bottom line

What happens to revenue when your team lacks clarity

The design leadership journey

An interview with Mia Blume, CEO of Design Dept.

Braden Kowitz

8 lessons learned from our mini-conference on goal setting and OKRs

Whether new to or experienced with OKRs, here are 8 tips to help you take your objectives to the next level

Michael Boykin

Who should set OKRs for your team?

A conversation with Andrew Beebe, Managing Director, Obvious Ventures

Michael Boykin

Understanding the why behind OKRs

An interview with CTO and engineering leader Mike Wu

Michael Boykin

Being a year-round LGBTQIA ally

Especially after Pride Month, the fight for inclusion and equality continues

Michael Boykin

Why company culture matters to leadership

An interview with Replicated CEO Grant Miller

Michael Boykin

Empathy and inclusion in People Operations

How to build inclusion into your People Operations strategy and policies

Jennifer Dennard

Our world is LGBTQIA. Your workplace should be too

Ellen Pao on how leaders can build an inclusive workplace

Ellen Pao

Celebrating LGBTQ Pride Month at work

6 meaningful ways you can help your company celebrate Pride Month

Michael Boykin

How to build an inclusive work environment by holding space

3 tips anyone can use to build a more inclusive team

Jennifer Dennard

How to prevent workplace burnout on your team

With burnout now classified as a medical condition by the World Health Organization, how should you better support your team?

Why individual OKRs don’t work

Find your focus, establish context, set priorities as a team

Sorry, there is no one tool to rule them all

Finding and embracing the right project management and productivity tools for your team

OKRs and Agile not only can work together, they should

Make a successful process even more outcome-driven

How to overcome the most common workplace distractions

5 ways to prevent office distractions from spoiling your work day

Michael Boykin

Building bridges to overcome organizational silos

Why busting silos might not be the best approach to getting your teams well-aligned

Glossary: Remote vs. Distributed

The subtle but important difference between being remote and being distributed

Range

Overcoming the 3 most common challenges in managing remote teams

Key takeaways from Range’s mini-conference on leading remote and distributed teams

How to take action on engagement survey results

4 steps to improve employee engagement after your pulse survey

Jennifer Dennard

5 tips for building stronger remote teams

How to overcome the challenges of managing a distributed workforce

Scaling without losing your team's connectedness

How to keep that small-team feeling as your team scales

Michael Boykin

How to write a better technical design document

Help your team write great design docs with this simple template

Dan Pupius

How to give better feedback at work

Improving feedback through a collaborative approach

Jennifer Dennard

Understanding complexity

A short primer on why complex systems require different ways of acting and making decisions

Dan Pupius

Good objective, bad objective

How to set goals that build alignment and accountability

Dan Pupius

How to write a great status update

The subtle art of explaining what you’re doing at work

Braden Kowitz

Tired of bad meetings? Design a better one

Kimber Lockhart, CTO of One Medical Group, on how you can intentionally design team meetings to encourage behaviors you want to see

Jennifer Dennard

How many reports should a manager have?

Balancing the desire for flat organizations with the realities of effective management

Daniel Pupius

How to build a culture of gratitude

Gratitude is extremely powerful when done well

Jennifer Dennard

When you don’t know how to fix your product

Conquering uncertainty in product management

Braden Kowitz

3 ways to reduce information overload on your team

Design your communication, or it it will design you.

Braden Kowitz

Leadership is knowing when to let go

Micromanaging and tightly controlling your team will disempower them and erode initiative taking.

Dan Pupius

The importance of a good operating cadence

The power of good process and why it’s important to nail your operational cadence

Dan Pupius

Intentionally building team culture

with Molly Stevens of Uber

Braden Kowitz

Why you have too many meetings

Four root causes to meeting overload and what you can do about them

Braden Kowitz

Encouraging emotions at work

Jennifer Dennard

Becoming a better manager

with Andrew Sandler of Grand Rounds

Braden Kowitz

5 questions a manager should ask themselves every week

Leaders, help your team succeed by asking yourself these 5 questions every week

Dan Pupius

Shades of change

A simple visualization that can help make change less painful

Dan Pupius

Make the most of your meetings

10 ways to improve your team meetings

Sean McBride

Check-in rounds

How the start of a meeting can be the beginning of so much more

Braden Kowitz