Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

5 micro-challenges to make your team stronger this week

Strengthening your team’s performance doesn’t have to mean a complete overhaul of your rituals and tools. A little consistency – in how you collaborate, connect knowledge across projects, and bring people together around shared goals – goes a long way. If your team is busy but still feels a little scattered, try this series of five micro-challenges over the course of a week. Each day has a distinct focus designed to help your team move faster, work smarter, and stay connected.

Brain drain: Are Zombie Projects eating your team's productivity alive?

Picture the scene: You’ve returned from a wonderful holiday break, invigorated to tackle ambitious projects, and then it hits you. Maybe it’s pinned to your Jira board, or taking up a tab in Confluence. It’s that one project that won’t go away. Its status hasn’t updated in three weeks. The Slack channel for the project is silent.

All brains on deck: 10 best practices for knowledge-sharing

One person’s knowledge isn’t enough to execute the work that really matters. Even your team can’t go it alone. To make great things happen, your entire organization must pool their cognitive resources. Sharing knowledge improves innovation, creativity, and productivity for everyone. Without it, information gets trapped within departments, teams, and individuals’ brains (the dreaded silos).