HBR guide to collaborative teams /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, Massachusetts :
Harvard Business Review Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Harvard business review guides.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Section one. Making yourself collaboration-ready: Exerting influence without authority
- to lead people who don't report to you, try lateral leadership / by Lauren Keller Johnson
- To improve your team, first work on yourself
- you need three specific capabilities / by Jennifer Porter
- Collaboration without burnout
- figure out where you add the most value / by Rob Cross, Scott Taylor, and Deb Zehner
- Section two. Building the team: Great teams are about personalities, not just skills
- here's how to get the right mix / by Dave Winsborough and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
- 6 ways to convince someone to collaborate with you
- think about what you can offer them in return / by Dorie Clark
- Making star teams out of star players
- there's a right way and a wrong way to organize them / by Michael Mankins, Alan Bird, and James Root
- Ensuring agile teams can work together
- nurturing internal networks can lead to better outcomes / by Alia Crocker, Rob Cross, and Heidi K. Gardner
- Section three. Being productive as a team: High-performing teams need psychological safety
- here's how to create it / by Laura Delizonna
- The best teams have clearly defined roles
- fuzzy responsibilities are bad for collaboration / by Tammy Erickson
- Helping teams with different subcultures to collaborate
- every company has many cultures / by Roger Schwarz
- Get your team to do what it says it's going to do
- "if-then planning" is the key / by Heidi Grant
- Don't let teamwork get in the way of agility
- each project stage needs the right amount of teamwork / by Elaine Pulakos and Robert B. (Rob) Kaiser
- How to motivate your problem people
- the most intractable people take up the most time and energy / by Nigel Nicholson
- Section four. Communicating and making decisions: Cracking the code of sustained collaboration
- six tools for training people to work together better / by Francesca Gino
- 7 strategies for better group decision-making
- keep the group small and diverse / by Torben Emmerling and Duncan Rooders
- A good meeting needs a clear decision-making process
- before you start, agree on how it will end / by Bob Frisch and Cary Greene
- 4 tips for effective virtual collaboration
- be strategic about meetings and communication / by Elizabeth Grace Saunders
- If your team agrees on everything, working together is pointless
- constructive conflict is good for creativity / by Liane Davey
- Section five. Navigating conflicts and power struggles: How to permanently resolve cross-department rivalries
- four questions to start getting on the same page / by Ron Carucci
- Navigating a turf war at work
- check your mindset, and focus on the larger goal / by Amy Gallo
- How to handle a disagreement on your team
- be a mediator, not a boss / by Jeanne Brett and Stephen B. Goldberg
- How to collaborate with people you don't like
- you can still have a productive relationship / by Mark Nevins.