Posts Tagged ‘team’

Getting Lifehack Done: Global Collaboration

Somewhere around 3 dozen people, scattered across the globe from Hong Kong across the US to the UK, Europe, and beyond work together to bring you the collection of useful tips, thought pieces, and inspiration known as Lifehack. I thought it might be interesting to our readers to learn a little bit about what goes on “behind the scenes” at a big site like this – the… » Continue

August 29 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: collaboration, Lifehack, project, team, website, work | 5 comments»

How to Lead People for Results

In a recent conversation I was told, “Leadership is about managing time and getting things done.” I couldn’t disagree more.

In my role at the Free Articulator, I manage and lead writers and editors every day. It has been said in the past that trying to manage artists (and all of our writers are) is a very difficult task. I can’t honestly disagree with that. The following is a recount… » Continue

February 27 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: leadership, people, relationship, team | 16 comments»

5 Ways To Better Manage Your Virtual Team

At times managing a team project via the internet can be difficult. What kinds of things do you focus on and what do you sacrifice?

These five tips to managing a group of people working on a project could put you on the right path.

Personalize your creative brief. I’ll be honest, I don’t know what the common industry practice is around the use of creative briefs. But in my… » Continue

August 31 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: people, team | 2 comments»

Do You Need A Collaborator, or a Schemer?

David Seah writes probably one of my favorite articles in a while, the difference between Collaboration and Scheming.

Being a Schemer at heart, it’s nice to read an objective comparison between the two and what the difference boils down to. According to Seah, it’s an ‘emotional vs rational duality’.
So what does one expect from a good “co-schemer”?

A co-schemer buys into your idea completely, because it’s their idea too.
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April 30 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: collaboration, team, teams, teamwork | no comments»

What’s The Problem? Find Out Using CATWOE

CATWOE is a method for expanding your thinking about a problem or situation before you zero in on a specific problem that you want to solve.

CATWOE? It’s new to me too, but MindTools have an article about understanding CATWOE so you can better understand your problems. Focused mainly on issues that arise in business, it goes like this:

Customers Who are they, and how does the issue affect them?
Actors Who

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April 13 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: problemsolving, team, teams | 5 comments»

Thinking About Trust

Trust in other people is one of the foundations for creating a civilized working environment. Many managers are overworked primarily because of a lack of trust. They take on too much themselves, because they don’t trust their subordinates to do the work properly. They cannot allocate enough time to their own work, because they don’t believe people will put in the required time without constant supervision. They attend pointless meetings… » Continue

July 31 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: attitude, behavior, boss, burnout, business, businesslife, civilized-work, control, corporate-culture, delegation, discontentment, fear, happiness, leadership, lifebalance, Management, manager, micro-management, office-politics, organization, respect, team, teamwork, timemanagement, trust, work, work-life, work/life-balance, working, worklife | 1 comment»

Take Your Laundry Off the Line

In multi-team meetings, there are frequently situations where people within the same team contradict one another. I might view the project as being accomplished in one way; my colleague might come right behind me and say it can’t be done that way. If there’s any sense of time available to get things done, take that coversation offline.

Unified Message- Airing your differences with a teammate in a group setting tells the

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June 26 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: Communication, meetings, project, projectmanagement, team, teamwork, work-life | 3 comments»

What’s the Right Size of a Team?

A new article in Knowledge@Wharton discusses about the optimal sizes of a team. What I experienced for sure, when the team grows, communication complexity multiply, and behaviour such as social loafing may surface. I have been researched different papers on the similar topic on team size and found a magic number - six. However the article suggests it is not simple. It suggests that the team size depends on… » Continue

June 15 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: Management, team | no comments»

Best way to Manage Geek?

Slashdot recently has published a question from a reader on the best way to manage geek. The reader has read a 1999 article on this topic and wonder if the new millenium has ever changed. There are couple of good response from geek themselves which should be a good trigger of thoughts. For example, some good comments from thesandtiger:

… 7) Managers who can manage. A boss’s job is… » Continue

November 7 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: creative, Management, team | no comments»

Loyalty And Fear

In my career, I’ve experienced times when disloyalty was disruptive and killed any sense of trust. But I’ve also seen cases where too much unquestioning loyalty meant important issues were suppressed until it was too late. It’s made me wonder if open questioning of authority, short of defiance, may be essential if we’re not to lose our way. » Continue

October 10 2005 | By Adrian | Tagged: leadership, loyalty, Management, organization, team, trust, work-life | 3 comments»

Advantages of a Smaller Team

In an article called The Smaller the Better, Jeffrey Phillips talks about a good topic on employer/employee relationship on big vs small team. He argues that smaller team has the lean and mean effects on projects:

1. Focus - a manager can spend more time with each person on a smaller team as necessary.
2. Clarity - in a smaller team, everyone has a line of sight to everyone else… » Continue

September 13 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: Management, project, team | no comments»