What is Team Clock®?
Team Clock® transforms teams, impacting company culture and morale. By identifying and addressing the obstacles interfering with performance, teams can spend more time focusing on their work and less time on the politics of their workplace. Team Clock gives teams the tools they need to adapt to change and repair themselves for the lifespan of the entity.
How We Do It
Common Team Challenges
Books
Team Engagement
Interpersonal
Certification
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How We Help
All relationships travel through cycles of growth and change. Whether it’s two people in a partnership, a team of people with a common goal or an organization with a mission, the living entity evolves through predictable stages. At the beginning, the team makes an INVESTMENT in a future together and carefully defines its direction. As the team becomes close and discovers how to work out differences, TRUST becomes the fuel for connection. The foundation of shared values and accountability becomes a platform for INNOVATION. This exploration creates change, which requires some DISTANCING to adjust to what has been lost, refuel and adapt to the new circumstances.
Read Steve Ritter’s Feature on Forbes.com
“Teams are messy. Conflict is unavoidable. Dynamics flow with the circumstances, mindsets, and emotions of the members involved. Graduates of top-tier schools are exceptional individual performers, but often struggle in teams.”
Health Raisers Podcast April 2026
Steve Ritter is back on a new episode of Health Raisers! In last month’s episode, Steve and I talked about healthy teams; this time, with Living in Sync: How We Engage with the World, we’re exploring the power of self-reflection and how understanding ourselves and our personal environment can deepen the quality of our relationships.
Health Raisers Podcast March 2026
This episode is a re-release from my previous podcast, The YOGI MD Podcast. My guest is Steve Ritter, CEO of Team Clock Institute, Author, Leadership Coach, and Workplace Culture Consultant. We explore his book, The 4 Stages of a Team: How Teams Thrive… and What to Do When They Don’t.
The 4 Stages of a Team is a toolkit for team survival.
The Team Clock® method has been endorsed by internationally recognized leaders in sports, consumer products, professional services, education and healthcare seeking to improve business results and the wellness of their organizations.
Running a successful business involves people, processes and products. This book is about the people – written to support teams of people for sustained success.
60 Seconds on the Team Clock
Slow Motion Succession Planning
I might remember the beach walk more vividly than the children holding my hands. They’re more likely to recall having just beaten their grandfather in a shoreline race only moments before – or maybe the stroll through the woods when we collected acorns. We planted those acorns that day, both literally and figuratively. We’ll track the growth of the baby oak trees each year while we make new investments in our evolving relationships. It’s a slow-motion succession plan.
Instant Calma’s Gonna Get You
Lowering your heartrate by 7 beats-per-minute on demand is not a parlor trick. It is a coping tool and anyone can do it. Everyone knows that we process information more accurately and make more prudent decisions when not dysregulated. Yet, life’s circumstances regularly cause upset. Getting from anxious or mad to calm and clear is a universal human challenge.
Just When We Thought the Future Looked Clear
Strategic planning exercises have short shelf lives by design. The overarching goal may stay the same, but the strategies, tactics, and timelines are subject to an ever-evolving environment. Constant reassessment is built into the plan. It might look good on the day it is created, in light of the circumstances of that moment in time. It takes but a few changes in personnel, politics, or priorities to warrant a trip back to the drawing board.