Smart Teams : How to Move from Friction to Flow and Work Better Together / Dermot Crowley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crowley, Dermot, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teams in the workplace.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Newark : John Wiley & Sons, [2023]

Summary:

Learn how your team can communicate, congregate and collaborate more effectively than ever Smart Teams will help your team to go beyond personal productivity to build a culture where productivity thrives. This book shows you how to turn around the unproductive team behaviours that create friction. You'll learn the 'superproductive' behaviours that promote flow and the most impactful productivity principles for working better together. Smart Teams shares the practical guidelines and key skills you need to lead a productive, cooperative team. Email noise, unproductive meetings and poorly organised projects can stifle creativity and disrupt everyone's workflow. A culture that isn't productive results in long hours, more stress, and a lack of balance. But by raising awareness of how our behaviours impact our work and our colleagues, you build the desire and capability to change within your team. 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. This book is part of the Smart Productivity series, helping readers find practical solutions for better managing their time, energy and focus.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

About the author

Acknowledgements

How to use this book

Introduction

Can you relate?

Productivity problems at the team level

We create friction rather than flow

Part I Moving from friction to flow

Chapter 1 Enabling productive flow

Productivity friction

Poor productivity behaviours

Friction vs flow cultures

Beyond personal productivity

Level 1: DISRUPTIVE

Level 2: PASSIVE

Level 3: PRODUCTIVE

Level 4: COLLABORATIVE

Level 5: SUPERPRODUCTIVE

chapter 2 Qualities of a smart team

We are purposeful

We are mindful

We are punctual

We are reliable

chapter 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

chapter 4 Communicate: make less noise

Email overload

1. Disruption and interruption

2. Inbox bottlenecks

3. Stress and overwhelm

Alternatives to email

Four communication tools

Have 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

chapter 5 Congregate: make meetings count

What's wrong with our meeting culture?

1. Too much time in meetings

2. Poorly planned and poorly run meetings

3. 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

1. Why

2. What

3. Who

4. Where

5. When

Running an awesome meeting

Mindful interruptions

Are all agenda items the same?

1. Creation

2. Deliberation

3. Delegation

4. Presentation

Focus your meeting with an agenda

Make online meetings work

Chapter 6 Collaborate: make projects great

Alignment, agreement and awareness

1. Alignment

2. Agreement

3. Awareness

Project collaboration: make them visible

1. Start with WHY

2. Get clear about WHAT

3. Decide WHO needs to be involved

4. Work out WHEN

The best tool for the job

Project scheduling tools

Mind maps

Project board or work breakdown structure tools

Checklist

Useful, usable and used

chapter 7 Key skills for effective cooperation

Managing urgency

Most urgency is false

Reducing urgency for others

Negotiating urgency

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Description based upon print version of record.

As a manager, do you conduct or cushion urgency?

ISBN:

9781394191314

1394191316

9781394191321

1394191324

OCLC:

1381096682