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2Quote for the Month“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”-Benjamin FranklinIn this issue:* Upcoming Events* Quote for the Month* Outlook* Guest Editorial* Manager Update* Hardwood Federaon Update* News* MovaonNo. 662May 2024WHA Board of Directors - OcersAaron Blumenkron PresidentTeana Larson Vice PresidentLouie Guyee TreasurerJamie Price Immediate Past PresidentWHA Board of Directors - Board MembersSco ClarkNils DickmannAdam DupliseaMarlin LangworthySco LeavengoodMike LipkeBrad MichaelRyan PetersonDennis SandersStephen ZamboDavid SweitzerSecretary/ManagerPO Box 1095Camas, WA 98607Ph: (360) 835-1600Web: www.westernhardwood.orgEmail: wha@westernhardwood.orgUpcoming Events May 21-23, 2024Hardwood Federation Fly-Inhttps://hardwoodfederation.com/May 29, 2024WHA Board MeetingEmail: wha@westernhardwood.orgJune 6, 2024WHC Annual Symposiumwhc@wahardwoodscomm.comJuly 20-23, 2024AHMI Summer Conferencehttps://appalachianhardwood.comAugust 6-9, 2024IWF Woodworking Fairhttps://www.iwfatlanta.com/the-show/about/September 23-25, 2024WHA Annual ConventionEmail: wha@westernhardwood.orgOctober 2-4, 2024NHLA Annual Conventionhttps://nhla.com/convention/schedule/October 9-10, 2024WPMA Annual Meetinghttps://www.wpma.org/events/
3Have you renewed your WHA membership?Renew your membership now and ignite excitement in the hardwood industry! Enjoy capvang tours, enlightening webinars, and invaluable networking at the Annual Convenon. Partner with the Real American Hardwood Coalion for visibility, the Hardwood Federaon for legislave inuence, and the American Hardwood Export Council for global market impact. Contribute to forestry's future with scholarship sponsorships and support students through the WHA Annual Design Contest.Renew today to partner with us! Membership auto-renewal saves you 10%. Visit www.westernhardwood.org/payment.htm now or mail your payment to PO Box 1095, Camas, WA 98607.Thank you for your connued support, essenal to our success in 2024. Reach out with any quesons or to volunteer.Mark Your Calendar & Save the Date!Roll the dice on excitement at our high-stakes annual convenon! Buckle up for innovaon and inspiraon at the Ilani Casino Hotel, just a stone's throw from Portland. Network like a pro, dive into game-changing insights on export and domesc markets, lobbying wins, AI insights, and design trends. Bet on success with us as we delve into hardwood dynamics. Win big and fuel the future with our scholarship-supporng aucon and our premium rae oering a jaw-dropping gaming/coee table. Swing into acon at our lively golf tournament and double down on connecons. Don't miss out on this synergy-packed event, with exclusive e-ins to the Timber Processing and Energy Expo. Elevate your presence with sponsorship perks! With a dash of casino avor, it's a surere jackpot for your business!SEE PAGE 18 & 19 FOR SPONSOR & AUCTION FORMS
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5nwh.comSimple – we handle all the complexities that go into hardwoods to make life easier for you. Natural – we manufacture and supply only sustainable, high-quality products that breathe life into your work. Hardwoods – from harvest to delivery, we set the standard for what the hardwoods experience should be.Joining our hardwood associaon is an exhilarang opportunity packed with dynamic benets! Here's why you should jump on board with unmatched enthusiasm:1. **Unite for Greater Impact:** Let's amplify our inuence by joining forces with sowood groups, revoluonizing mber harvest together!2. **Powerhouse Representaon:** Gain a voice that resonates in the corridors of power! With our membership in the Hardwood Federaon, we're shaping policies in Washington DC and championing the hardwood cause!3. **Ignite Domesc Demand:** With the Real American Hardwood Coalion, we're spearheading a thrilling domesc markeng crusade that's pung hardwoods in the spotlight where they belong!4. **Conquer Global Markets:** Buckle up for an exhilarang ride as we conquer internaonal markets through our membership in the American Hardwood Export Council, showcasing the nest American hardwoods to the world!5. **Connect and Thrive:** Dive into a whirlwind of networking opportunies at the WHA's electrifying annual convenon and beyond, where connecons spark innovaon and success!6. **Inspire Future Leaders:** Join us in empowering forestry students to embrace the wonders of hardwoods through our capvang Design Contest and Scholarship Program!7. **Stay Ahead with Cung-Edge Insights:** Get ready to level up your game. We’re planning groundbreaking webinars, including must-know topics like navigang the AI revoluon in business!8. **Unlock a Wealth of Knowledge:** Our soon-to-be revamped website can be your ulmate desnaon for everything hardwood-related, oering a treasure trove of educaonal resources at your ngerps!9. **Shape the Future:** Dive into acon with our newly minted Strategic Plan and take the helm in one of our six acon commiees, where your experse can shape the future of our associaon!10. **Stay Informed and Promote Your Brand:** Don't miss out on the excitement of our Monthly Digital Magazine, where you'll nd the pulse of the industry, unbeatable adversing rates, and the chance to showcase your company's success stories!With so much passion, innovaon, and opportunity awaing, joining our hardwood associaon isn't just a choice—it's an adventure you won't want to miss! Join us today and let's carve out a future of unparalleled success together!Going to a meeting? Contact us to take along one of these popups for your table and help grow WHA!
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7h no: h no: al ver al ver o h her o h her ididby Dalin Brooks, Execuve Director, NHLAWords have the power to inuence people. The statement, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” led to a revoluonary war. Or how about the statement “I have a dream,” which reinforced the civil rights movement. What we say in the Hardwood industry might not be such a precise moment of truth and rally the country, but it is just as important to our well-being and future generaons. Words also change over me. When I say, “it’s green,” do you think about the color, the fact that it is not kiln dried, or environmental benets? Your footprint, at one me meant your feet but now it means what is le by your car, company, and everything else in your life. Words in the Hardwood industry have also changed. Words we used to own, such as: sustainable, renewable, and natural are now applied to steel, concrete and plasc. Negave words we used to hate hearing from environmentalists: logging, cung, harvesng, and climate change are now part of the answer not the problem. Words we didn’t even know last century, such as: carbon sequestraon and biophilic design, have popped up. I bought my wife a book, recommended by a friend, for her birthday last month. The book was about democracy in the U.S. today. It was a naonal bestseller. It wasn’t balanced and was so blatantly polical that she gave up aer two chapters and skipped to the end. The end was worse than the beginning and she returned the book. People hear what they want to hear. Most want to hear that their views are correct, and their beliefs and percepons are valid. Very few want to listen to a balanced and neutral discussion of a point. Why is the forest industry trying to be neutral all the me? Why are we taking the corporate side of the argument when we are not neutral? We win all discussions on environmental impact over other materials. Yet no one hears us telling it because we are telling it to ourselves. We do not inuence others because they do not listen to us. They are listening to the people who rearm what they already believe. They listen to people who say, “save trees, save biodiversity, save the environment, save nature,” or tell them to be green and lower their footprint by conserving energy and buying organic. If the footprint of logging and harvesng Hardwood trees for wood products is less than making alternave products, then shouldn’t we be recognized as the green soluon for climate change? If the carbon sequestraon in Hardwood lumber products is as sustainable as the carbon sequestraon of the growing tree because the wood stays in service for decades as the new tree grows up in the old trees place, shouldn’t we be labeled organic? We save biodiversity, we save trees, we save the environment.We don’t have a word problem. We have an audience problem. We need to stop preaching to the choir and start talking to the environmentalists on the other side. Either they believe what they preach, or they don’t. If they don’t, then we will out them as frauds and hypocrites. But for the few that want to walk the walk, we can arm that Hardwood lumber is the soluon to having a good life full of forests, animals, and a healthy society; ensuring that the next generaon has a good life too. We agree with the environmentalists that a healthy forest is necessary for our well-being and future generaons. Why knot call over to the other side and let them know?Reprinted from: Brooks, Dalin. “Why Knot: Call over to the Other Side.” Miller Wood Trade Publicaons, Miller Wood Trade Publicaons, 1 Apr. 2024, millerwoodtradepub.com/why-knot-call-over-to-the-other-side/.
8Manager's MessageDave SweitzerSecretary/Manager, WHAWhen I came on board 50 years ago, we were promong the versality of Alder – easy to machine, assemble and nish to imitate other species. It soon became popular in the export market as well as the domesc market. The demand for this Western US species and the subsequent supply were on an even keel. Then enter the spoed owl, tree huggers, and Endangered Species Act, resulng in many ominous harvesng restricons, and the start of mill closures, both hardwood and sowood. Today, the forest products industry is in peril. The supply of logs is not available, primarily because of the views of myopic and uninformed people who make their voices heard through ligaon, rules and regulaons, and apparent disregard for the value of trees in the environment. Take carbon sequestraon for example: Carbon is stored in the growing stock, connues to be stored in products made from lumber, and addional carbon storage is added as seedlings are planted and grown to replenish the forest.Today is the rst day of the rest of the forest life. We need to work together to sustain the forest products Wood treatment plant manufacturing, worldwide since 1983.The most environmentally friendly wood treatment ever known!Hydro-Thermo Modication 1-877-785-0274 www.americanwoodtechnology.comAmerican Wood Technology AWT Options: design, fabrication, layouts & accessories• Smallest footprint & simplest installation• Most gentle process available• Most eective heat transfer• Fastest process time & better product quality• Lowest processing cost per board footOur thermo plant designs provide:
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10industry. WHA has established many partnerships to forge ahead with the view of helping the forest products industry grow. We are working with the sowood industry and its powerful lobbying eort to change some devastang rules and regulaons, clean up the federal, state, and local forests to migate insect and wildre devastaon, and hold those who make sustainable harvest calculaons accountable for the harvest volumes agreed upon. We are acvely involved in local, state, naonal and internaonal jurisdicons to aect a more sustainable industry.WHA has recently developed a Long-Range Plan that includes many commiees that will be a posive force in log supply. We could use addional help from members and non-members to work with commiees that have been organized. These include Member Engagement/Networking, Government Aairs, Annual Convenon, Educaon/Internships, Markeng/Promoon/Social Media, and Revenue Streams. We need to join in the eort to prove that the forest products industry is the answer, not the problem for the environment.We want you to join in this eort. Just contact the oce and we can put you to work to make a dierence.Update from Hardwood FederaonDana Cole, Execuve DirectorApril 2024As the Administraon moves forward with its climate policies, some federal regulators are embarking on a path to dene “old growth” forests in a manner that undercuts science and sustainable forest management. In the face of these challenges, the U.S. hardwood industry connues to educate policymakers on the industry’s long history of praccing sustainable forest management, which maximizes environmental benets while providing well-paying jobs in underserved and rural communies. More specically, the industry reminds federal agencies, especially USDA, that eecve forest management, which acknowledges the carbon benets of tree harvest, and the variability of regional ecosystems is essenal to the Administraon’s climate migaon strategy. This is especially true when sizing up policies related to old growth forests. In April 2022, the Administraon released Execuve Order (E.O.) 14072, a direcve focusing on forest health and outlining a path forward to assess mature and old growth forests on federal public lands. Following the E.O., the Federaon submied comments on USDA’s Request for Informaon (RFI) in 2022 and Advance Noce of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) in 2023. Within the peons, the Federaon urged the Administraon to avoid a “one size ts all” approach to dening old growth. In late 2023, USDA proposed an unprecedented naonwide Forest Plan amendment that would supersede exisng Forest Plans to impose “consistent old growth policies” on all 128 forest management plans. This acon eecvely opens the door to impose a one-size-ts-all approach to classify old growth forests, removing more naonal forest acreage from sustainable forest management, while also creang complex, new management requirements. The Federaon joined forest sector allies in comments led in January 2024 opposing the proposal on the grounds that acon would: • Contradict established federal policy that no single denion of old growth forest represents the diversity of old growth ecosystems.• That the proposal violates the agency’s 2012 Planning Rule, which requires the USFS to engage stakeholders in a science-based process that acknowledges the need for local exibility.• Impose requirements to manage forests “adjacent” to exisng old growth for old growth characteriscs, thereby undermining other Forest Plan goals, including mulple-use objecves. The wood products sector has requested that USDA withdraw its proposal to amend all 128 forest management plans and connue to address the old growth issue through the locally led forest planning process, governed by the 2012 Planning Rule. This will ensure a thorough and transparent regulatory process consistent with established USFS policies grounded in the Naonal Forest Management Act. The hardwood sector also supports S. 3929, a bill sponsored by Sen. Barrasso (R-WY) that would prevent the USFS from moving forward with its forest plan amendment process. On the House side, Hill sources have informed HF sta that there is interest from at least one member in leading the charge for a companion bill. We ancipate that concerns around the old growth issue will be included in the key issues addressed during the upcoming Fly-In. If interested in joining us for the Fly-in May 21-23, you can sign up here! The Federaon will keep you posted on developments related to federal old growth policies as they unfold.NewsLooking back a few short weeks to the catastrophic bridge collapse in Balmore, we called upon one of our members in the East for comment. WHA member Steve Zambo of Ally Global Logiscs LLC is a leader in the export market. We were interested primarily how exporters are The container ship Dali is seen in the wreckage of Francis Sco Key Bridge almost a week aer it hit a structural pier causing a subsequent bridge collapse. (Jerry Jackson/Sta - Balmore Sun)
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12dealing with this Port disrupon. Steve said “It was a horrible tragedy, although progress is happening very quickly. The local authories, and authories in general have done a great job. As it stands they are expecng vessels to start calling the port of Balmore in June/July. They have a small channel, and are working to create a larger channel to connue trade. The Dali and containers on the port have had challenges. Outside of that there have been no disrupons. Balmore is a big AUTO port, and cargo is able to [be] rerouted to Norfolk, Front Royal or New York.”We asked Steve what adjustments he had to make. “We have shied our exports to go via Pisburgh, Front Royal, Norfolk or New York in Lieu of Balmore. It has not negavely impacted our business in any capacity.”Amid the high mortgage rates and troubled economic mes in January 1980, The Washington Post published an arcle with the tle “A Bright Spot in Virginia’s Economy is Its Paper-Manufacturing Industry.” My how have mes changed. The American Loggers Council last month pushed out a press release calling aenon to “The Dismantling of the American Timber Industry,” in which it states that over 10,000 forest products-related jobs have been lost in over 50 sawmill and paper industry shutdowns over the past 15 months. Some were sowood and hardwood sawmill closures, but many of the jobs lost were from the pulp and paper industry, which, for years, has been the lifeblood for small logging operaons. It’s not news that the paper industry is shrinking, but as more pulp and paper mills disappear, it is pung more nancial pressure on loggers and, by extension, hardwood sawmills.- excerpted from Knol, Tim. “Paper Mill Struggles Impact Hardwood Sawmills: Log Supplies Threatened as Paper Industry Declines" Hardwood Review Express, 12 April 2024.Follow the Science: Which says that thinning AND prescribed re are the best way to reduce re danger in our re prone forests. Researchers from the University of Montana and at The Nature Conservancy recently published a paper that found “overwhelming evidence that mechanical thinning with prescribed burning, mechanical Wood Protection Products You Know and Trust.WWOOD OOD PPRROOTTEECCTITION ON PPRROODUDUCCTTSSWood Protection Products You Know and Trust.WWOOD OOD PPRROOTTEECCTITION ON PPRROODUDUCCTTSS1-888-END-COATsales@uccoatings.comBuffalo | Portland | Seattle
thinning with pile burning, and prescribed burning only are eecve at reducing subsequent wildre severity, resulng in reducons in severity between 62% and 72% relave to untreated areas.” - excerpted from Imbergamo, Bill, “FFRC Weekly Report for Friday, February 9, 2024”| FFRC. Federal Forest Resource Coalion.: n. pag.Manufacturing output was higher in March thanks to the auto sector. Manufacturing output increased 0.5% in March, led by a signicant 3.1% rise in motor vehicles and parts producon.Other manufacturing sectors also saw growth. Aerospace and miscellaneous transportaon equipment (+1.2%), wood products (+0.7%), petroleum and coal products (+4.8%) and chemicals manufacturing (+0.7%) all recorded growth in March. - excerpted from DuBravac, Shawn, Dr.. “NAM-Weekly Economic Report - April 22, 2024”| NAM. Naonal Associaon of Manufacturers.: n. pag.Inaon is sll too hot: Inaon picked up in March, with prices up 2.7% over the past year compared to 2.5% last month. Prices have risen at a 4.4% annualized rate over the past three months. - excerpted from DuBravac, Shawn, Dr. “NAM-Weekly Economic Report - April 29, 2024”| NAM. Naonal Associaon of Manufacturers.: n. pag.The Western mber industry is in crisis. The region has lost over a half-dozen wood processing facilies so far in 2024, and more will likely close. This is not just another economic blow to our rural communies; it signals a broader failure of the federal government to align the management of public lands with the health of our forests and wood products sector. Despite billions of dollars in new government spending, and strong biparsan support in Congress for forest management, the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management are paralyzed by an-forestry ligaon, obstrucon and bureaucrac red tape. Under our broken system of federal land management, it takes years for these projects to be developed and implemented, even when these projects survive court challenges. A good example can be found right now in Southwest Oregon, where protesters are sing in trees to stop an eort to thin unhealthy trees on a re-prone forest. Too oen these reckless acons prevent our public lands managers from doing their jobs. - excerpted from Smith, Nick, and Lynn Howle. “Commentary: Timber Crisis Has Implicaons for Environment, Economy and Climate.” Capital Press, Capital Press, 16 Apr. 2024, www.capitalpress.com/opinion/columns/commentary-mber-crisis-has-implicaons-for-environment-economy-and-climate/arcle_4a608efe-fc4e-11ee-a9e8-d322bf1e039e.html.Challenge to Oregon Forest Service Project Denied New Hearing - A US Forest Service plan to thin an Oregon naonal park can move forward aer the Ninth Circuit Tuesday declined an environmental group’s request for the appeals court to rehear the group’s protest en banc. In 2020, the Forest Service issued a noce of its decision to begin a “restoraon project” at the 218-acre Walton Lake recreaon site in the Ochoco Naonal Forest in Oregon. The project authorized thirty-ve acres of sanitaon logging and 143 acres of commercial and noncommercial thinning to reduce the risk of wildres and bark beetle infestaon. (Subscripon Required) - - excerpted from Vilensky, Mike. “Challenge to Oregon Forest Service Project Denied New Hearing.” Bloomberg Law, 16 Apr. 2024, news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/challenge-to-oregon-forest-service-project-denied-new-hearing.Persistent inaon concerns: The Consumer Price Index connues to rise, notching a notable 0.4% increase in March, driven largely by higher costs for shelter and gasoline. The overall CPI has increased 3.5% over the past 12 months, underscoring ongoing inaonary pressures. - excerpted from DuBravac, Shawn, Dr. “NAM-Weekly Economic Report - April 15, 2024”| NAM. Naonal Associaon of Manufacturers.: n. pag.
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15Kendall Coon: On Earth Day, thank a logger - Most of the debate we see about global climate change centers on burning fossil fuels, but a large and obvious source of carbon emissions in our backyard is oen overlooked: The increasingly frequent catastrophic wildres torching our federal and state managed forests each season. Wildres send billions of tons of emissions into the atmosphere when they burn every year. The OECD notes the harmful feedback loop catastrophic forest res make for the climate: “wildres exacerbate climate change, which in turn increases the frequency, size, and severity of wildre events.” Thankfully, healthy forests are a natural carbon soluon. Healthy, acvely managed forests are robust carbon sinks that sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. A wide consensus of experts, including the United Naons panel on climate change, have long recognized that proacve forest management like mechanical thinning (logging) and prescribed burns to reduce excess fuels makes forests healthier and also more resilient to a changing climate, helping to prevent unnaturally severe wildres that emit excess greenhouse gasses in the rst place. - excerpted from Coon, Kendall. “Kendall Coon: On Earth Day, Thank a Logger.” The Independent Record, 16 Apr. 2024, helenair.com/opinion/column/kendall-coon-on-earth-day-thank-a-logger/arcle_dd6159cc-105f-51f6-a7e5-f336b6e832ec.html.FFRC to Congress: Boost Timber, Roads Funding for the Future of Our Forests and Communies - The Federal Forest Resource Coalion submied tesmony on the Forest Service’s Fiscal Year 2025 budget, seeking 25 percent increases for both the mber program and the forest roads account. The tesmony seeks increased funding and urges Congress to set “an explicit goal of a 4.2 Billion Board Foot (BBF) mber sale program in FY 2025,” which begins October 1st, 2024. “The sale program should be geared towards sustaining and creang local jobs and increasing the pace of forest restoraon; Naonal Forest mber must be processed domescally, so increased mber sales generate needed jobs in economically distressed rural counes.” Also in April, Senate Energy & Natural Resources Commiee Chairman Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Ranking Member John Barrasso (R-WY) sent a leer to the Government Accountability Oce (GAO) asking them to conduct an “assessment” of the Forest Service’s forest management, land management planning, and reghng equipment pracces. You can read the leer at this link.Forest Service Chief Randy Moore issued the annual “leer of intent” on wildre management. You can read it here. “All signs point to a very acve 2024 re year. We will connue safe, eecve inial aack to protect communies, crical infrastructure and natural resources,” the leer reads. The leer dwells on pre-re planning and communicaon with local leaders, and notes that “Every re will receive a risk-informed response.” The Chief delegates authority to Regional Foresters to “approve” the use of unplanned res when the Naonal Preparedness Level is either 4 or 5. It adds (incoherently) “Increasingly, we see the potenal for re to increase landscape resilience when condions permit.” The leer closes by telling the re suppression sta that “We will connue to ght for a permanent pay increase for reghters, as well as pay stability for all incident responders.”On Monday, April 22, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and several colleagues wrote to Secretary of Agriculture asking him to “priorize” the old-growth plan amendment that is currently distracng agency leadership from implemenng the Wildre Crisis Strategy. “With more than two centuries of logging, over a century of re suppression, and decades of increasing eects from the climate crisis, older forests are dwindling,” the leer said, even though here on earth nearly half the forestlands on the NFS are either mature or old growth. Wyden was joined by Senators Je Merkley (D-OR), Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters (both D-MI) Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Marn Heinrich (D-NM). Michael Bennet (D-CO), and Alphonse Butler (D-CA). The leer urges Vilsack “to adopt a durable and meaningful approach to recovering old-growth forests across the country.”- excerpted from Imbergamo, Bill, “FFRC Weekly Report for Friday, April 26, 2024”| FFRC. Federal Forest Resource Coalion.: n. pag.MovateToy Storyby Aghlamazyan, AnnaGreat teams have ve essenal building blocks: cooperaon, trust, harmony, humiliaon, and appreciaon. These blocks are the solid ground that helps teams work well and reach their goals. Now, let’s look at each one to see how they make teams strong and successful. In the world of animaon, something big was happening: Pixar was creang “Toy Story.”The big goal had been set: to change how we tell stories and make animated lms. And behind the scenes, a group of creave people got This image was generated with the assistance of AI.45 Years Leading Dry Kiln Efciency!kilnsales@nyle.com (800) 777-6953
16together to make this dream come true.At the center of all this creavity was something special –”The Braintrust.” The leader of this group was the director, John Lasseter, but it wasn’t about one person’s vision. It was about making a place where everyone’s ideas were important.The Braintrust meengs were dierent from regular brainstorming sessions. Imagine this: a room full of talented people, each one an expert in their own way – arsts, writers, and storytellers. They worked closely with the director, helping him to see the lm from dierent points of view.Toy Story Team Brainstorming MeengWhile making “Toy Story,” the Braintrust discussions became super important. Team members felt safe to share their thoughts and concerns about the movie’s progress. They knew their opinions were respected, and this safety allowed them to try new ideas.The result of this unique approach wasn’t just a successful movie. It was a masterpiece that people all over the world loved. “Toy Story” captured hearts, and the Braintrust’s role in its success became famous.The big lessonThe Braintrust shows how trust and the sense of safety can create something amazing. It reminds us that true magic happens in art and innovaon when we feel safe sharing our ideas and hearing everyone’s perspecves.In fact, a 2017 Gallup report revealed that organizaons that focus on psychological safety witness a signicant increase in employee engagement and, consequently, a noteworthy 12% rise in overall producvity.Your Key TakeawayThe best teamwork stories aren’t just read. They’re lived, experienced, and cherished within the dynamic world of collaboraon.Think about it: When team members understand each other fast, it helps them talk beer and trust each other more. Pung egos aside means people can grow and work well together. Following the same rules keeps things organized and ecient.Appreciang each other, whether it’s saying “good job” or just being thankful, makes everyone feel happy and movated. And when everyone feels safe in the team, they can take risks, solve problems, and be creave.So, no maer where you work, remember that these teamwork qualies make your workplace beer, happier, and more successful. And they can turn your collaboraon stories into compelling narraves of achievement and growth.Aghlamazyan, Anna. “5 Teamwork Stories That Inspire Growth (+lessons Learned).” Ocial Teamly Blog - Ocial Teamly Blog - Your Project Management Resource, 22 Sept. 2023, www.teamly.com/blog/teamwork-stories/#ve_teamwork_stories_true_tales_of_collaboraon. (901) 372-8280
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