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Are You Using Onboarding To Retain Your Top Talent?
Are you worried about keeping your top talent? Today’s talent landscape is competitive…but you already knew that. In fact, if you’re like...
Feb 16, 2023


The Secret to Turning Toxic Culture into Thriving Culture
Bad culture is like vulgarity: “you know it when you see it.” Unfortunately in today’s workplace, it’s much more common for the saying to...
Feb 2, 2023


The One Key To Getting Your Employee Development To Stick
How much do you usually spend on employee development and education? It’s a lot, right? Think about that number. Really feel into it. You...
Jan 27, 2023


To Be a Great Leader, Make It About The Journey, Not The Destination
Happy New Year! With 2023 now underway, it’s time for individuals and businesses alike to make resolutions, set goals, and reflect on the...
Jan 4, 2023


How Do You Increase Productivity? The Answer May Surprise You
Are your employees being productive? If your answer is “ehhh,” you’re not alone. According to the Washington Post article “U.S. workers...
Dec 12, 2022


Is the Surgeon General Warning about YOUR Workplace Culture?
Move over, tobacco warnings - there’s a new issue in town. In October, the US Surgeon General issued a 30-page report titled, “Framework...
Nov 16, 2022


How Sliding Doors Moments Can Give Us Better Outcomes
Do you ever wonder how different your life would be if you’d taken a slightly different path? A potentially pivotal moment that...
Nov 9, 2022


Why Working with Other People Is So Hard, and How to Get Better At It!
Why is it so freakin’ difficult to communicate and collaborate with other people? We’re social animals. Communicating and collaborating...
Aug 23, 2022


The One Thing Earthquakes Can Teach Leaders About Managing Team Pressure
For decades, conventional wisdom went something like this: Work is work. Personal life is personal. Mental and emotional wellbeing are...
Jul 21, 2022


3 Simple Steps to Boost Engagement in Remote Teams
We’ve reached the point where it’s almost a cliche to talk about how hard it is to make meaningful connections with colleagues through...
Jul 6, 2022


Pressure, Meet Play: A Guide to Picking the Right Game (Part III)
A great team creates more value than the sum of its individual parts. To achieve this status, we must set up each individual for success....
Jun 30, 2022


Pressure, Meet Play: A Guide to Picking the Right Game (Part II)
In the first part of this series, we covered the Leadership Diagonal of our Pressure Matrix – 3 pressure points commonly found in teams...
Jun 23, 2022


Pressure, Meet Play: A Guide to Picking the Right Game (Part I)
The first of a three-part series to help you pick the right game for your team Have you ever wished that you had a crystal ball to...
Jun 14, 2022


Gamifying Responsibility
Simple solutions to strengthen your team and culture During the past few years organizations have been dealing with a lot of employee...
Jun 2, 2022


How We Created the Pressure Matrix (And How It Can Help You Be An Effective Manager)
Over the last year, the team at BarometerXP has been refining a core philosophy around the concept of pressure… In science, barometers...
May 25, 2022


Three Ways to Find Meaning In Your Work
What makes work…work? There are tons of possible definitions, but two central characteristics of all jobs are: A series of tasks and...
May 18, 2022


How Do We “Show Up” When We Play, and Why Is It Important?
Having the right mindset and approach can make a difference in your play experiences At Barometer XP, we believe that the most valuable...
May 12, 2022


Need to Motivate Your Team for Change? The Trick Might be in the Wording….
Managing and motivating people through any time of change can feel like herding cats. Or worse, herding people. (Why is the adage about...
Apr 20, 2022


Three Insights from Team-Building Exercises That Managers Can Use Right Away
A recent Barometer XP case study You’ve heard us encouraging play in the workplace for many months now, and while it may sound...
Mar 23, 2022


What is Play?
What does play mean and why we need it What is Play? We constantly hear of teams experiencing burnout, lacking motivation, and desiring...
Mar 11, 2022
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