Tagged: TeamWorking

The Power Of Qualitative Team Health Metrics

I’m seeing a lot more burnout at work for many reasons, all of them very disturbing.  It’s bad for the employer because people become disengaged, productivity suffers, stress increases all around, sickness levels increase and retention suffers.  It’s clearly bad for the individuals and their families and it’s also bad...

What Type Of Team Do You Need?

Friday is my ‘rest and relax’ day, a day when I work on my own, review what I’ve learned this week, collect my thoughts, plan for the future. As I walked along the beach to Lytham I started to ponder teams. We can sometimes get carried away by the idea...

Does improving collaboration depend on culture change?

(updated with a link to Michael’s post that works!) Michael argues that we hide behind the need for culture change on many collaboration projects, his key point is illustrated by this example: if a team can run a project in email then they can run one in a collaboration tool....

Successful collaboration

(updated to add missing link later on in the post) Stu has an interesting post on effective collaboration,  I think his arrows pointing in the right direction, but I don’t think its the whole story.  In Stu’s model we need to have a willing person, a willing team, the right culture...

Morale, that’s an employee issue!

A couple of weeks ago I heard a manager say that employee morale was not a management issue, I hope I heard wrong, but I don’t think I did.  To be fair though I don’t think the manager concerned really meant what he said and was in fact referring to...

Take stress seriously

Over the last few years I have been much more conscious of stress,  I am able to detect it and don’t tend to miss the symptoms hiding away behind the adrenalin fuelled activity.  I just came across this article which provides a very shot, but very insightful analysis of some...

The Chief Happiness Officer

I have just discovered the chief happiness officer blog, which focused on happiness at work and I think it’s great.  Just this morning I was talking to Graham on the phone while out walking (I had nothing better to do, Graham was late for a meeting!) and I was saying how...

Successful collaborations need focused effort

Collaboration is a key competency for today’s enterprises and yet despite the fact that the Internet is awash with a myriad of different collaboration solutions many teams still struggle to be effective and most projects continue to fail by at least one metric.    Many people assume that collaboration comes naturally...

Collaboration – not so much about technology

I have long held the belief that successful collaboration is not so much about getting fancy technology and much more about process, culture and careful deployment and use of the technologies you do have.  I was therefore pleased to see the results of a survey on collaboration that S. Ann...