Over-Collaboration: Solution #3: Designing for Great Collaboration
Our last three blog posts have outlined collaboration challenges and solutions. In this fourth and concluding post, we’re talking about the role the organization plays in making collaboration work. The way you design your organization — your rules, tools and people practices — has a substantial impact on how effectively you and others collaborate. Rules […]
Over-Collaboration: Solution #2: Better Skills and Behaviors
Our last newsletter gave you some questions to think about regarding planning and attending meetings and encouraged you to be more intentional. Our second solution is about skills and behaviors needed to avoid over-collaboration. Next week, our third solution will look at the role the organization plays in making collaboration work. In our careers, we’ve […]
Over-Collaboration: Solution #1 – Be More Intentional About Meetings
Our last post talked about the problems of over-collaboration: wasted time, burn- out of some of your most valuable people, and decision/action bottlenecks. Let’s start with something practical – smarter use of meetings as a collaborative tool. It’s not sexy, but it’s a solution that can save your team thousands of hours per month. Most […]
Collaborate The Right Way and Free Up 20% More Time
Collaboration is a great thing. It brings together diverse perspectives and experiences, helps us generate new ideas and can create breakthrough results. In highly matrixed organizations it seems to be just about the only way to get things done. As a matter of fact, research says collaboration has increased by more than 50% over the […]
What can the Red Sox Teach Us About Winning? Sweat the Small Stuff!
It’s early in the baseball season and hopes are running high. The Red Sox have a lot of great talent on the team. There should be a lot of wins this year. What can the Sox teach us about winning? I hear what you’re saying. We’re not the Red Sox. Sports teams aren’t like most […]
When is Loyalty a Disadvantage for Change Leaders?
When is Loyalty a Disadvantage for Change Leaders? by Edith Onderick-Harvey & James Harvey When it’s the wrong type of loyalty. We’ve talked in the past about the importance of building trust in leading change efforts. Change creates discomfort and disruption to the way people do things and how they interact with others – […]
Something New Has Arrived!
We’re pleased to announce that Factor In Talent is now Just as we’ve helped clients evolve and even, transform their business we’re evolving, too. Our new name represents our next chapter. What’s in a name? Why did we name it NextBridge? We believe that growth is imperative, change is constant and talent executes strategy. […]
We All Have Biases
The events of the past few months have put bias or potential bias front and center in the American consciousness. In its extreme, bias becomes an -ism. Absolutism. Sexism. Racism. Agism. Name your -ism. These extremes can lead to discrimination, fear and, at times, tragedy. We have seen this with our own eyes too many […]
