HBR Guide to Collaborative Teams (HBR Guide Series)
Description
Break down the barriers to effective collaboration.
For cross-functional projects to work, you need to bring together diverse ideas and resources from across your organization. But office politics, conflicting objectives, and lack of clear authority can get in the way.
The HBR Guide to Collaborative Teams provides practical tips and advice to help you collaborate more effectively. Whether you're leading your own direct reports or building a talented group from disparate parts of your organization, you'll discover how to align others' goals and skills so you can solve problems as a team and deliver great results.
You'll learn to:
- Develop a shared purpose
- Bust departmental silos
- Lead employees who don't report to you
- Overcome conflict and turf wars
- Prevent collaborative overload and fatigue
- Use the right tools for virtual information sharing
Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.
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Content
- Intro
- What You'll Learn
- Contents
- Introduction: Why Collaboration Is So Hard
- Section 1: Making Yourself Collaboration-Ready
- Ch. 1: Exerting Influence Without Authority
- Ch. 2: To Improve Your Team, First Work on Yourself
- Ch. 3: Collaboration Without Burnout
- Section 2: Building the Team
- Ch. 4: Great Teams Are About Personalities, Not Just Skills
- Ch. 5: Six Ways to Convince Someone to Collaborate with You
- Ch. 6: Making Star Teams Out of Star Players
- Ch. 7: Ensuring Agile Teams Can Work Together
- Section 3: Being Productive as a Team
- Ch. 8: High-Performing Teams Need Psychological Safety
- Ch. 9: The Best Teams Have Clearly Defined Roles
- Ch. 10: Helping Teams with Different Subcultures to Collaborate
- Ch. 11: Get Your Team to Do What It Says It's Going to Do
- Ch. 12: Don't Let Teamwork Get in the Way of Agility
- Ch. 13: How to Motivate Your Problem People
- Section 4: Communicating and Making Decisions
- Ch. 14: Cracking the Code of Sustained Collaboration
- Ch. 15: Seven Strategies for Better Group Decision Making
- Ch. 16: A Good Meeting Needs a Clear Decision-Making Process
- Ch. 17: Four Tips for Effective Virtual Collaboration
- Ch. 18: If Your Team Agrees on Everything, Working Together Is Pointless
- Section 5: Navigating Conflicts and Power Struggles
- Ch. 19: How to Permanently Resolve Cross-Department Rivalries
- Ch. 20: Navigating a Turf War at Work
- Ch. 21: How to Handle a Disagreement on Your Team
- Ch. 22: Collaborating with People You Don't Like
- Index
