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...

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Main Author: Crowley, Dermot
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton, Old. Wiley 2018
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505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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. 
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520 |a 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 team behaviours that create friction into 'superproductive' behaviours that promote flow. Productivity is, at its core, a leadership issue-and this book provides practical guidelines that help you build a culture where productivity thrives. Working together can be a drag-literally. Email noise, unproductive meetings and poorly organised projects can stifle creativity and disrupt everyone's workflow. But by creating team agreements that raise awareness of the negative impact of our behaviours, you build the desire and capability to change. This book is packed with tips, guidelines and expert insights for leaders and managers at any level.-Foster a culture of 'superproductivity' -Create a set of Smart Team principles to guide cooperation -Run fewer, shorter and more effective meetings -Collaborate more productively on projects -Reduce urgency, interruptions and email noise People want their work to matter, they want to make an impact and they want to do it all with a healthy work-life balance-productivity is the key to making it all happen. Smart Teams shows you how to implement the culture shift that will allow your team to flourish