Building High-Performing Teams

When it comes to building extraordinary workplaces and high-performing teams, researchers have long appreciated that three psychological needs are essential: autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Decades of research  de...

Of those three essential needs, relatedness, or the desire to feel connected to others, has always been the trickiest for organizations to cultivate. It’s one thing to attract talented employees — but how exactly do you get them to like each other?

Covid has made fostering ...

1. Autonomy: Choosing what we want to do by ourselves.
2. Competence: Experiencing the satisfaction of completing our aims, goals or desires.
3. Relatedness: Feeling connected to others.

Being confined to a single place r...