2020
The Untapped Team Advantage
Building Team Connections as a Leadership Choice
The full argument for why Team Psychological Safety is the foundation of sustainable high performance — with the model, the evidence, and the stories.
Books · Games · White papers
Everything to make it practical.
Books, games, and tools built to be used, not just read — the practical side of Team Psychological Safety.
The books
Three books, no fluff
Two published, one on the way. Have a look inside the first two.
2024
Your Untapped Team Advantage Toolbox
No theory, no stories — only tools you can use to develop Team Psychological Safety in your team. The practical companion to the first book.
TQ — Team Intelligence
In progressIn progress
TQ — Team Intelligence
Peter's next book, currently being written. Team Intelligence is the capability of a leader to develop and sustain a high-performance team.
Coming soon
Games
Get the team playing, not just talking
Two ways to turn team psychological safety into a shared, hands-on experience.
The Team Psychological Safety Game
A gamified way to open up the conversation a team needs to have — turning the seven elements into something a team explores together.
Question Hunt
A team activity built on the idea that better teams ask better questions — a simple, repeatable way to practise curiosity as a team.
White papers
Go deeper on the research
Peter's research on what real teams actually show. Start with the executive summary, or read the full paper.
Teams Eat Culture for Breakfast
Team Psychological Safety in Real Teams — Country Comparisons
Co-authored
Optimizing the Power of Action Learning
Peter co-authored the third edition with Michael Marquardt, Shannon Banks and Choon Seng Ng — real-time strategies for developing leaders, building teams, and transforming organisations.
More reading
From the blog
Teams as engagement fertilizer
Employee engagement has been stuck around 31% for decades. What if teams, not another survey, are the fertilizer that grows it?
Read the article (PDF) →Coordination, cooperation or collaboration?
Coordination, cooperation, or collaboration? The activity decides which mode a team needs — and there's nothing wrong with any of them.
Read the article (PDF) →What is your ROT?
You track ROI and ROA — but what about ROT, the extra performance a real team delivers beyond its individuals?
Read the article (PDF) →Watch
Videos
Short talks and explainers.
Why only 12 in a team
Implementing TPS in an organization
Want the tools working in your team?
The books and games are a great start. A program is how the change sticks.