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Nov 16, 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 9, 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...

Aug 23, 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...

Jul 21, 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 6, 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...

Jun 30, 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 23, 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 14, 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 2, 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...

May 25, 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 18, 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 12, 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...

Apr 20, 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...

Mar 23, 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 11, 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 1, 2022

Revealing More About Your Team

How to Choose the Right Activity for a Meaningful Team Building Experience One of the most common questions we hear at Barometer is how...

Feb 10, 2022

Low Pressure Play at Your Offsite

These games are easy to implement and play with your teammates When a manager or teammate says the word "teambuilding" activity, many of...

Nov 12, 2021

Start Your Meeting with Play!

Why playing helps engage your team in routine meetings Most Zoom meetings have an incredibly predictable flow to them. The typical start...