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Smart teams : communicate, congregate, collaborate : how to work better together /
Communicate, congregate and collaborate more effectively than ever Smart Teams will help your team to go beyond personal productivity to enhance team productivity. Building on the concepts presented in Smart Work, which focuses on personal productivity, this book shows you how to turn unproductive t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Milton, Old. :
Wiley,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; SMART TEAMS; Contents; About the author; Acknowledgements; How to use this book; Introduction; Can you relate?; Productivity problems at the team level; 1. Information overload; 2. Too much time in unfocused meetings; 3. Distractions and interruptions; 4. Unnecessary urgency; We create friction rather than flow; Part I MOVING FROM FRICTION TO FLOW; Are you selfish?; Are you selfless?; Or do you serve?; 1 Enabling productive flow; Productivity friction; Poor productivity behaviours; Friction vs flow cultures; Beyond personal productivity; Level 1: DISRUPTIVE; Level 2: PASSIVE.
- Level 3: PRODUCTIVELevel 4: COLLABORATIVE; Level 5: SUPERPRODUCTIVE; 2 Qualities of a Smart Team; We are purposeful; We are mindful; We are punctual; We are reliable; 3 Changing team behaviours; Get specific to change behaviours; What is a productivity principle?; Generating principles for your team; Flipping problems into principles; Make this a priority for your team; PART II WORKING BETTER TOGETHER; Why this?; Why them?; Why now?; Why here?; 4 Communicate: Make less noise; Email overload; 1. Disruption and interruption; 2. Inbox bottlenecks; 3. Stress and overwhelm; Alternatives to email.
- Four communication toolsHave a conversation; Call a meeting; Send an email; Share a post; A more thoughtful approach to communications; Planning effective communications (why); Writing effective communications (what); The three ingredients of good communication; The SSS approach to emails; Sending effective communications (who); Noise reduction strategies; Reply with care; Don't be a copy cat; Use distribution lists carefully; Get up and talk to someone; 5 Congregate: make meetings count; What's wrong with our meeting culture?; 1. Too much time in meetings.
- 2. Poorly planned and poorly run meetings3. Poor meeting behaviours; Let's aim for 100 per cent fewer meetings; 25 per cent fewer meetings; 25 per cent shorter meeting durations; 25 per cent fewer participants; 25 per cent less time wasted; Make your meetings more effective; Plan meetings the right way around; The 5W approach to planning meetings; Running an awesome meeting; Mindful interruptions; Are all agenda items the same?; Focus your meeting with an agenda; 6 Collaborate: make projects great; Alignment, agreement and awareness; Project collaboration: make them visible.
- The best tool for the jobProject scheduling tools; Mind maps; Project board or work breakdown structure tools; Checklist; Useful, usable and used; 7 Key skills for effective cooperation; Managing urgency; Most urgency is false; Reducing urgency for others; Negotiating urgency; As a manager, do you conduct or cushion urgency?; Developing an active mindset; Negotiating our workloads; Manage expectations using SSSH; Negotiating using the four variables; Delegating in the right way; Part III BUILDING A SMART TEAM CULTURE; 8 Creating a more productive culture; Create ripples.