If you're ready to move beyond burnout and build a truly resilient team, 'CLICKING' is your roadmap. Rudnik's five pillars offer a fresh and deeply insightful framework for creating a culture where teams solve problems collaboratively and achieve more, giving leaders the space to finally lead strategically

In the evolving landscape of corporate business environments, there exists a wild west approach to leadership with little consistency even within a single large company. The result is a lack of engagement from employees and a lack of productivity by companies. CLICKING is the answer. With a powerful 5-part framework, this book clearly demonstrates how companies can increase purpose, communication, and decision-making within teams. It is a must read for any leader or HR officer wanting to excel in the corporate world.

If you're juggling approvals, stuck in meetings, and solving everyone's problems, CLICKing shows how to build a team that runs without you.

You get a five-pillar system (**Clear Purpose, Linking Connections, Integrated Work, Collaborative Decisions, Knowledge Sharing**) with worksheets, scripts and facilitation steps you can apply this week. You'll draft a one-sentence team purpose, turn values into an actionable **team constitution**, clarify roles and decision rights, design fewer but better meetings (a challenge for nearly everyone), and install lightweight feedback habits.

Daria writes like a coach who's been there, swapping jargon for simple tools and vivid examples—from fixing founder bottlenecks to meeting sanity. Instead of lofty culture slogans, you'll make behavior explicit and repeatable. This mirrors what I've spent years introducing to teams and clients (with varying success), making it exactly the kind of practical, pragmatic book I value.

Perfect for founders, product/ops leads, and HRBPs who want to transform firefighting into a steady rhythm of clarity, autonomy, and learning.

What makes a team thrive? This book dares to revisit that essential question—not with clichés, but with clarity, structure, and soul. As someone who mentors team leads and facilitates learning-led transformation, I found this book to be both practical and profound.

The emphasis on combining performance with learning teams is not only futureproof, it’s urgently needed. The provided checklists and frameworks help leaders move from theory to grounded action, while still honoring the human heartbeat of team dynamics.

One of the most powerful takeaways is how Daria repositions the leader’s role—not as a controller, but as a space-maker. A leader becomes someone who invites team members to see themselves as strategic partners, not subordinates. That lens shift alone can transform culture.

The chapters on stakeholder mapping, creating psychological safety, and designing meetings for momentum are pure gold. I especially resonated with the idea that meetings should energize, not drain—a principle we also embed deeply in our Unfold mentorship journeys.

Grounded in principles like Self-Determination Theory, the book shows how true motivation comes from autonomy, competence, and relatedness. This isn’t just research—it’s a reminder that learning, belonging, and growth are the true engines of team success.

Highly recommended for changemakers, team leads, and learning professionals ready to lead with intention.

As a fellow author focused on modern leadership, I was immediately struck by the clarity and practicality of Daria Rudnik’s framework. CLICKING delivers a high-impact, accessible strategy for building teams that operate with purpose, alignment, and self-sufficiency. It’s the kind of playbook leaders need to prevent dysfunction from stalling trust, focus, or results.

This is a smart, practical roadmap for leaders who are exhausted by micromanagement and want teams that can think and act for themselves. Using her CLICK framework, Clear Purpose, Linking Connections, Integrated Work, Collaborative Decisions, and Knowledge Sharing, Rudnik blends engaging stories with actionable tools that work in any team setting.

What sets this book apart is its clarity. It’s not vague leadership inspiration; it’s a hands-on guide filled with templates, questions, and examples that show exactly how to build trust, alignment, and autonomy. If you want to stop being the bottleneck and start leading strategically, this book delivers the blueprint.

CLICKING is a masterclass in building real connections and real results, packed with practical exercises, templates, and real-world stories.