Savvy Subcontracting

Give Your Team Time Tools

We are often required to multi-task a great deal during the course of our workday—going to meetings, answering questions from others, handling “fire-drills,” doing paperwork. If we’re not careful, the interruptions and “small tasks” can rob us of critical time blocks where we get to concentrate on our main work, get problems solved, and come [...]

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Show Your Team You Trust Them

If you want remote team members to feel both accountable and authorized to work independently towards team goals, you need to trust them. Saying, “I trust you” to a new colleague is a powerful way to make them feel both competent and committed. Taking a “prove you are worthy” stance will make them more likely [...]

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Team Member Personality Types

An understanding of the “personality types” of your team members can be useful for avoiding conflict and promoting effective collaboration among your team members, who may differ in the way they perceive and organize information, communicate, and make decisions. People view the world differently. They differ in the way they: Perceive and organize information Communicate [...]

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Create A Team Role List

Team Roles and Responsibility List should be created and share with all team members. It should include documents items such as: Who is on a (cross-functional) project team What cross-functional role they are filling What they are responsible for in that role Specific duties they’ll perform to fulfill those responsibilities Contact information (optional) Help each [...]

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