People come to the workplace with various skill sets and backgrounds…but few are versed in workflow management, and even fewer have been through formal training for it. Nobody gets a degree in productivity.

To successfully develop an adaptive workforce, Forrester offered these three guidelines for employers.

Most managers aren’t aware of what their employees really think about them. Here’s what managers can do to encourage their employees to open up, and how you as the employee can broach the subject in a thoughtful, productive way.

Giving and receiving feedback is one of the hardest skills to get right in the modern workplace. Listen to Joseph Grenny and others discuss the best, and worst, ways to hold frank discussions at work.

It takes an emerging leader about six months to turn the new, learned skills required for their job into “reliable habits,” and that time can cost employers.

For team members to thrive together in a task-filled work environment, they need to adopt these key habits.

Missed deadlines, decreased productivity, low morale and a culture of fear are all symptoms of a lack of trust and effective communication among team members.

The culture of “always on” and having more on your to-do lists than can reasonably be finished “is likely to affect your mood and overall productivity.”

Even if you have top-tier performers on your team, it takes only one or two people “who [miss deadlines, fail to make critical handoffs, work on the wrong priorities] to cut team performance by an average of 24%…”

Joseph, many people know you through your work with VitalSmarts, your writing, influencer, crucial conversations and a host of others.