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Useful Pain:
Why Your Relationship Needs Struggle

What if everyone was accountable for their contribution to the health and wellness of every relationship they joined? Consider the consequence of more lasting friendships, more loving marriages, more satisfying affection, more productive problem solving, and more resilient adaptation to change.

Steve Ritter

Author
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Steve Ritter

Author

Steve’s unique blend of training and experience in the worlds of human resources, organizational development, and clinical psychology inspired the creation of the Team Clock® methodology, an approach that merges the professional and clinical fields to empower growth of teams in a spectrum of industries from business to sports to education.

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Team Clock provides leaders and team members with proactive, clear and easy to follow guidelines to improve a team’s communication, trust and comfort level. Your team will thrive in productivity and functionality and promote positive outcomes. Applying Team Clock concepts bolster healthy, dynamic, mutually respectful and collaborative cultures.

Dr. Bhavna Sharma-Lewis

Superintendent, Riverside District 96

HCI members have embraced Team Clock as a simple, direct and powerful resource for engaging and leading teams in the new economy.

Michael Foster

Chairman and CEO, Human Capital Institute

This book made me think hard – really hard – about what it means to join or lead a group of people. Short, punchy and powerful.

Seth Godin

Bestselling Author, Tribes

Team Clock provides a wonderful common language for the development of professional learning teams.

Jack Eliot

Co-Director, Midwest Principals Center

Team Clock is a brief and unique analysis of the psychology of successful teaming. Through storytelling, case studies and graphics, Steve Ritter offers the reader a specific model and strategies for achieving effective teams – whether in sports, business or schools.

Joanne Rooney, Ed.D.

Co-Director, Midwest Principals Center

Team Clock provides teams with a direction for future growth.

Dean Simpkins

Director, Football Coaching International

Team Clock is a perfect step up for students of team dynamics who are ready for a thought provoking framework that goes beyond the basic model of ‘forming, storming, norming and performing.’ Ritter’s work provides insight into group behavior and effectiveness, and the natural way groups evolve and grow over time. Team Clock is full of applications for every kind of group, from business teams to families.

Professor Julie Hennessy, Clinical Professor of Marketing

Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University

Steve has done a masterful job bringing a great team development tool to life through Team Clock. A product of his practical and research experience, the Team Clock helps teams assess where they are and gives them the information they need to improve their effectiveness. I have recommended Team Clock in workshops and seminars as a way for teams to become high performing.

Pamela Stroko

Vice President, Mid-Market HCM Transformation & Thought Leadership at Oracle

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