Practical reading for growing teams.
People think, communicate and work in different ways. Our articles explore how to bring that understanding into team life, leadership and AI adoption, with practical ideas you can use in your own business.
People at the centre.
Whether you are introducing AI, supporting different working preferences or turning a strategy into everyday action, start with the people doing the work. These articles share how we approach that through the Working With Me methodology.
AI adoption
AI adoption for teams, the complete guide
Understand your people, find useful AI opportunities in their roles and support the change. A practical guide to clear rules, working manuals and measurable improvements.
04 Sept 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleAI adoption in a neurodivergent team, getting it right for every brain
Start with how each person thinks, learns and works. Find useful AI opportunities together and shape the pace and support around the people in your team.
03 Aug 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleHow to agree the rules of AI at work with your team
Help people feel clear about what is expected, able to ask questions and supported when they try AI. How to agree practical rules with your team.
03 Aug 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleWhy AI rollouts fail, and how to make adoption stick
People need to see how AI fits their work, have a say in the change and get support that suits them. A practical guide to turning that understanding into measurable improvements.
23 Jul 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articlePriorities
Team priorities, the complete guide
Everything a small team needs to know about setting priorities that actually stick. How to agree them, make them visible, connect daily work to them, and check the team is still working on the right things.
14 Aug 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleHow to make team priorities visible, without micromanaging
A clear way to show your team what matters and why, so people work on the right things without being managed every step.
10 Jun 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleHow to get your team to follow the quarterly priorities
Priorities are followed when they are visible and connected to daily work. A practical way to close the gap between the plan and the week.
25 Apr 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleTools for making OKRs visible to the whole team
What it takes to keep objectives in front of the whole team, the main types of tool, and where they tend to leave a gap.
22 Apr 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleHow to connect individual work to company goals
People do work that matters when they can see how it matters. A practical way to give every person a line of sight to the goals.
18 Apr 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleHow to set up OKRs for the first time in a growing team
A plain, practical guide to writing and launching your first set of OKRs, with a worked example, the right number to set, a quarterly review rhythm and the common first-time mistakes to avoid.
21 Feb 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleHow to track team priorities and capacity together
Keep your team's priorities and capacity in one view, so you can match work to the people who have room and stop loading the willing.
14 Feb 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleHow to track individual contributions to team priorities
A fair way to see how each person moves the priorities forward, without turning it into surveillance. Here is what to track, and what to leave alone.
11 Feb 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleWhy your team ignores the strategic priorities you set
You set the priorities, then watch the team drift back to business as usual. Here are the real reasons it happens, and how to make priorities stick.
04 Feb 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleHow to know if your team is working on the right things
A founder's check: are the hours your team spends actually going on what matters? Here is how to see it clearly, and what to do when the answer is no.
31 Jan 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleWays of working
Manager one to ones, the complete guide
Everything an owner or manager needs to run good one to ones: how to agree their purpose, structure them, decide who leads, and keep them consistent as the team grows.
21 Aug 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleHow to run a one to one meeting you lead yourself
A practical template for bringing your own agenda to a one to one, so the time covers what actually matters to you, your workload and how you like to work.
30 Jun 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleHow to fix too many one to one meetings
When managers live in back-to-back one to ones, the meetings are usually doing a job that visibility should do. Here is how to get the time back.
27 May 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleHow to reduce communication friction in a team
Most friction is not about difficult people. It comes from unwritten assumptions about how to communicate. Here is how to make them visible and clear it.
16 May 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleHow to run a weekly team check-in that works
A good weekly check-in is short, predictable, and built around what matters and what is in the way. Here is a simple agenda and how it fits a quarterly rhythm.
09 May 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleHow to set up a better one to one process for your managers
A practical way to set up one to ones that managers can run well and consistently, built around each person and the team's priorities.
25 Feb 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleHow to improve team collaboration and productivity
A practical guide to helping your team collaborate well and get more done together, using a simple operating-system method: people, priorities and rhythm.
18 Feb 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleRemote and hybrid team collaboration, a practical guide
How to collaborate well when your team is split across homes, offices, and time zones, by making working styles visible, agreeing async working, and keeping a steady rhythm.
28 Jan 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleHow to build better team dynamics
Good team dynamics come from understanding how each person works and sharing a clear sense of what matters, practised often enough to become normal. Here is how to build them on purpose.
24 Jan 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleHow to build a collaborative team culture
A collaborative culture is built in how you run the team day to day. Here are the leadership behaviours and habits that make working together the normal way of working.
14 Jan 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleNeurodiversity
Neuroinclusion at work, the complete guide for small businesses
What neuroinclusion means in practice, how to support a team without forcing disclosure, and the practical steps a small business can take this quarter.
03 Aug 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleBuild a neuroinclusive workplace without waiting for disclosure
Most neurodivergent employees never formally disclose at work. Here is how to build support that helps everyone by default, so no one has to ask first.
17 Jul 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleNeurodiversity at work: how to create the conditions for a high-performing team
Supporting neurodivergent colleagues by building the conditions for high performance: psychological safety, less friction, and working manuals people actually use.
24 Jun 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleNeurodivergent team management, a practical guide for leaders
How to manage a team with different ways of thinking, without singling anyone out. Practical steps that work for the whole team.
13 Jun 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleHow to support a neurodivergent team working remotely
Remote work removes the corridor conversations and cues people relied on. Here is how to support a neurodiverse team with written context and async working.
13 May 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleHow to choose a platform to support a neurodivergent team
What a platform can and cannot do for a neurodivergent team, the main options, and what to look for before you buy.
25 Mar 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleHow to help neurodivergent team members do their best work
Start with how each person works best, shape the conditions around them, and play to strengths. A practical guide for managers.
21 Mar 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleHow managers can support a neurodiverse team
The everyday habits that help managers support a neurodiverse team well: clear instructions, predictable meetings, feedback that lands, and more in writing.
18 Mar 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleLeadership
Managing a growing team, the complete guide
The problems that arrive as a team grows past ten people, and the practical system for keeping everyone on the same page: visible ways of working, visible priorities, and a steady rhythm.
03 Aug 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleHow to tell if your leadership team is on the same page about priorities
A simple test for whether your leaders agree on what matters, why they drift apart, and how to bring them back to shared priorities.
04 Apr 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleWhy your business feels unsettled even when you have good people
When a capable team still feels disjointed, the cause is usually connection rather than people. What that points to, and how to settle it.
01 Apr 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleHow to create clarity across a growing team without micromanaging
Clarity at scale comes from what people can see for themselves. The three things that create it, so you can step back from steering every move.
28 Mar 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleWorkshops
Do you need your whole team on board before you start
You do not need every person fully bought in before you start with Working With Me. Here is why partial early engagement is normal, and how the value shows up before the whole team joins in.
24 Jul 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleWhat you get from a Working With Me workshop
A single day where your team builds the foundations of how it works together. Here is exactly what the day covers, what you walk away with, and what is expected of you.
20 May 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleBest team workshops for improving how you work together
How to choose a team workshop that leaves a lasting result rather than only a good day out. The types, the questions to ask, and a fair price.
06 May 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleTeam away day ideas that actually change how you work
Away day ideas that leave you with something you keep using, rather than only a good memory. How to plan a day that pays back for months.
29 Apr 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleTeam building workshop activities and how to choose a facilitator
The team building activities that change how a team works, and how to choose a facilitator who turns a good day into something the team keeps using.
21 Jan 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleWhat a team workshop costs, and the return on it
What drives the price of a team workshop, what the Working With Me workshop costs and includes, and how to judge the return without chasing a single number.
17 Jan 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleWorking styles
Working styles at work, a practical guide for teams
What working styles are, why they cause friction when they stay hidden, and how a team can use them to work well together.
30 May 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleHow to run a team working styles session
A simple way to run a session where the team sets out how each person works best, then agrees a few practical changes that last.
02 May 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleHow to make working styles visible across a team
What it takes to make how each person works plain to the whole team, the main options, and what to look for before you buy a tool.
14 Mar 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleWorking manuals
Working manuals, the complete guide for teams
Everything a team needs to know about working manuals in one place. What goes in one, how to write one worth reading, how to roll them out, and how to keep them alive.
03 Aug 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articlePersonal user manual, a practical guide for teams
How to write a personal user manual that your team will actually use, with a simple template and the rhythm that keeps it useful.
21 Jun 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleWhat is a working with me manual
A short document where someone sets out how they work best, written by them. Here is what goes in one and how a team puts them to work.
17 Jun 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleHow to roll out team working manuals across your company
A practical guide to building working manuals across a company. Start with one pilot team, keep each manual the person's own honest account, and make them simple to use day to day.
04 Mar 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleOperating systems
What is a team operating system, and does a small business need one
A team operating system is the simple set of agreements that keeps a small team working well: who does what, what matters most, and how you work together.
23 May 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleHow to build a business operating system for a growing company
What a business operating system is, the parts it needs, and how to build one in an order that gives you something useful at each stage.
15 Apr 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleHow to create a way of running the business when you have outgrown your processes
The signs you have outgrown your processes, why they stop fitting as you grow, and how to create a connected way of running the business.
11 Apr 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleBest tools for scaling operations in a mid-market business
The categories of tools for scaling operations, what each is good for, and the connective gap they tend to leave as a business grows.
08 Apr 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articlePerformance
Performance management for small teams, the complete guide
How to set up performance management a small team will actually use, without surveillance and without the admin of an enterprise HR suite.
03 Aug 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
Read articleHow to set up performance management that actually works
A grounded, practical guide to performance management for small team owners who have been let down by the annual review. Start from visible priorities, make expectations clear up front, and replace the once-a-year event with a steady rhythm of shorter conversations.
28 Feb 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleWhy performance management feels disconnected from actual work
If reviews feel like a separate exercise from the job itself, here is why that happens, and how to connect the two so the conversation is about real work.
07 Feb 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleCommunication
How to make team communication more inclusive
Inclusive communication is communication more of your team can take part in. A practical guide to making it the norm.
11 Mar 2026Jill McAlpine
Read articleHow to reduce misunderstandings at work
Most misunderstandings come from people reading the same words differently. Here is how to cut them down across a team.
07 Mar 2026Lynnsey Urquhart
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