Big news this week on The High Five! We're preparing for the official launch of the Teamangle, a team diagnostic to help uncover, diagnose, and solve challenges in the areas of communication, collaboration, and culture.

We're so excited about this launch, and while nothing is live yet, we've had tons of positive conversations with folks about the work we've done so far. Greg wrote Introducing our new team development and leadership framework, the Teamangle to start discussing the concept and dives into how and why we created Teamangle. Brett shares all of the upcoming Teamangle products and opportunities we have lined up for you. We hope you can feel the excitement!

The Ask

Subscribe to our site at sameteampartners.com so you can receive content updates, and of course, the launch of the Teamangle next week!

The Hit List

Brett:

• Speaking, Oct 14: Digital PM Summit
• Reading: Why Gaming Is Good for the Workplace

Greg:

• Listening: Junior Varsity - Cross the Street
• Watching: Bad Monkey

The High Five

Writing and content marketing! Get ready for all the Same Team Partners content coming your way!

Have a wonderful week.

Starting this week, we're publishing two new articles per week on our blog, Same Page. Moving forward, we'll be discussing those articles on The High Five. To kick us off, Greg recaps his latest article, Teams have to communicate. In the article, Greg brings up two team personas who solve team problems but might cause more problems due to a lack of communication. We talk about giving individuals and teams authority and autonomy to solve problems, share information, and help everyone succeed.

Anyway, we're excited to share more about what we're writing and welcome your perspective too. If you have a hot take on what we're discussing, email us at highfive@sameteampartners.com.

THE ASK

Buy a shirt at the Same Team Store. More designs and different products are coming soon!

THE HIT LIST

Greg:

• Listening: Duran Duran: New Moon
• Reading: Turning conflict into collaboration

Brett:

• Attending: Leadership Live Las Vegas
• Listening: RÜFÜS DU SOL - Break My Love
• Watching: Werewolf Bar Mitzvah

HIGH FIVE!

Our first playbook is ready to ship! What's the Teamangle anyway? You'll know soon enough. If you're on our mailing list, you'll get first access! Stay tuned.

Have a great weekend.

This week, we discuss the Forbes article Why Self-Advocacy Can Help You Become An Invaluable Collaborator, Brett and Greg share their own experiences with self-advocacy and discuss how to encourage self-advocacy and alignment on goals within teams.

The Ask

We launched a Same Team Store! Go grab a tee and keep and eye out, because more is coming soon!

The Hit List:

Brett:

• Reading: The 3 kinds of intelligence workplaces need to succeed
• Listening: Four Minute Mile by The Get Up Kids

Greg:

• Reading: The Great Discontent: Brad Montague
• Listening: Yoyaku instore session with Tomoki Tamura

High Five!

The Gods of business consulting and thought leadership have spoken, and the new team "operating system" is called "The Way We Work." Greg found it all in this HBR article, Build Better Teams.

It's really good stuff! The exciting part about this is that the principles closely align with what we're doing (and releasing soon) at Same Team Partners. During the review, we discuss the fundamentals of teamwork and building trust. And guess what? We do that work, too! With that said...

THE ASK

Thank you to everyone who followed us on LinkedIn! This week, please Subscribe to Same Team Partners to receive updates on new content, tools, templates, and products. Big things are going to happen in September!

THE HIT LIST:

Greg:

• Listening: Duran Duran - Dance Macabre and Psycho Killer
• Watching: KAOS

Brett:

• Seeing: Waxahatchee this Saturday at The Fillmore in Philly
• Listening: Waxahatchee, Tigers Blood
• Reading: Why Self-Advocacy Can Help You Become An Invaluable Collaborator

In last week's Hit List, Brett mentioned the Fast Company article Why we’re failing new managers and how we can set them up for success. That article got him thinking about his own experience, so he did what we do at Same Tem Partners. He wrote about it on Same Page. Check it out: Becoming a manager shouldn’t be as hard as becoming a parent. In discussing both articles, Greg and Brett share their experiences as new managers, and how to help new managers succeed,

THE ASK

Connect with Same Team Partners on LinkedIn.

THE HIT LIST

Greg:

• Reading: Running a Critique
• Listening: TOPxMM

Brett:

• Listening: brat by Charli XCX
• Reading: Colorado man left behind during office retreat survives night on mountain

Have you ever experienced the loneliness of being the solo designer or project manager (or insert other job here) in a company? We've been there, and we just found an article on Medium, 4 challenges solo design teams face and how to overcome them, that touches on some of what lone rangers go through and how to cope. We discuss some strategies that have worked for us.

THE ASK

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THE HIT LIST

Greg:

• Reading: Wardley Mapping
• Writing: Anxiety Lives in the Past and the Future.
• Listening: Amon Tobin - Permutation

Brett:

• Listening: Sit down and love again by Sfven
• Reading: Why we’re failing new managers and how we can set them up for success

We've been thinking a lot about 1: 1 meetings at Same Team Partners. This week, while in a research rabbit hole, Brett found the article Don't cancel meetings to be productive, cancel one-on-ones written by Clickup CEO Zeb Evans. His take is that 1:1s for leaders are a waste of time. He offers some practical solutions for his business. We have a hot take on that.

The Ask

Subscribe to our forthcoming newsletter at sameteampartners.com (And watch for the launch of our new site!)

The Hit List

• Attending: The New Purpose of the PMO at thedigitalpm
• Using: Threads! Follow us there!
• Writing: No shirt, no problem
• Listening: Happy Again, Phantogram
• Reading: The Art of Witty Banter: Be Clever, Quick, & Magnetic by Patrick King
• Watching: Nick Cage interview on The Late Show

This week's Review is all about team-building activities, and centers on the HBR article 17 Team-Building Activities for In-Person, Remote, and Hybrid Teams. Greg and Brett share their experiences planning and facilitating team events, and discuss some basic best practices.

The Ask:

Whether you're a PM or PM-curious, we'd love for you to take this brief survey to help us shape future offerings for those who help others get stuff done. And while you're at it, check out what's coming with Project Management for Humans.

The Hit List:

• Reading: Morgenmete Journal
• Watching: Damon Albarn: Studio Tour
• Reading: Kamala Harris's VP pick offers a lesson for hiring managers about 'perfect' candidates
• Listening: If i could make it go quiet by girl in red