Once every quarter, the employees at LaSalle Network turn off their inboxes. What started off as a one-day experiment to help reduce misunderstandings that often come through text communications yielded such great results that the company decided to make the practice a permanent part of culture. The Terms: * Rotate through...
We've been using Slack over the past few months to streamline communication both at Ridiculously Efficient and with our respective teams. Here are our favorite tips to use Slack effectively. 1. Download the desktop and app versions. Both are really well-designed, which enables you to quickly flip to...
About a year ago, we had daily standups with our small team, just the four or five of us. Like most scrum meetings, we started with the same three questions. What are you working on today? What did you do yesterday? What's one problem or obstacle that you&...
[contextly_auto_sidebar id="njluQZFMrsfTasJzZHDpJbeNygnIWOZF"]Every team I've ever worked with makes the same mistake when inviting a remote team member to an in-person meeting: they treat the telecommuter as they would an in-person participant. Is your workgroup guilty of this cardinal sin? If so, ask...
[contextly_auto_sidebar id="SjFLjvhhMXrlpMuhqxQpibCzHIKzpyat"]If I look at my published work over the years, I'm quite hard on meetings. But I still believe they're a powerful team productivity tool. The trouble is that we've become complacent about meetings. Somewhere along the...
Project managers and assistants must walk a delicate line between proactivity and micromanagement when working in small teams. On the one hand, our entrepreneurs rely on us to keep projects and tasks moving on time and under budget. On the other, our teammates, like us, are juggling multiple competing deadlines....
