Nancy at Guided Insights shares 10 ways to disengage your virtual team. The first two are: “1. Allocate tasks that encourage independence . The less dependent people are on others, the more likely they’ll be to get their work done on time. Structure assignments so people can complete […]
The BrainYard has published my article on effective meetings and the promise of SmartDraw: “If you and I were sitting down to coffee and I asked you (between sips of my extra-hot flat white) to explain something to me related to your work, how quickly would you give […]
Next month I will be presenting a seminar on The Equation of Collaboration in Sydney and Melbourne in conjunction with Professional Advantage. I will be talking about the roadmap to collaboration at work and the six faces of value from collaboration, among other topics. Dates: – Sydney, Tuesday […]
Patti wrote (in 2001) about the use of VAX Notes at Digital Equipment: Imagine. You work in a global high-tech company with more than 100,000 people. Research and product development organisations are distributed around the world, as are the sales, marketing, and technical support groups that interface with […]
Bill talks about the distractions of the digital workplace, drawing on recent research by Harmon.ie: In the following result summaries the bullets are in the words of the study. Here are some of the work related findings: – Two out of three users will interrupt a group meeting […]
Law firm Minter Ellison (with 290 partners and 1,000 legal staff in Asia Pacific and the UK) has chosen a range of Cisco collaboration gear to support its “one firm” strategy. “A key focus for us is to ensure that all our people — regardless of which office […]
SmartDraw published an infographic on the power of visual communication at work. The first pane looks at the role of visuals in meetings: My Comments 1. In accepting the assertion that “visuals make meetings better,” and that by implication they counteract the three problems identified in the problem […]
Meetings are essential to collaboration, but they’re the bane of people’s existence. A couple of academics in 2006 wrote about the problem of attending too many meetings and spending too much time there. Based on earlier research on meetings, the academics did the following: “They devised a pair […]
My next article is up at The BrainYard: Realizing Collaboration’s Value: Big and Small: “Collaboration generally means working with others to achieve a common outcome, but how much value you can achieve from collaboration depends on where you apply the discipline within an organization. At the micro-scale, you’re […]
In the McKinsey report on Web 2.0 in the Enterprise from 2008, Exhibit 8 reports on how companies adopt Web 2.0 tools. (Click for a larger image) My Comments 1. Look at the satisfaction levels on the right-hand side of the image first. Here’s what I noticed: In […]
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