Teamwork

Help new employees blend into the team

February 6, 2015 Categorized in: Teamwork

It’s hard to watch a new person struggling to fit in. What can an established employee do to help a new colleague become part of the team?

SharePoint 2013 Q & A

February 5, 2015 Categorized in: Project ManagementTeamwork

Microsoft Certified Trainer Melissa Esquibel offers two quick SharePoint tips.

Make your files collaboration-friendly

November 28, 2014 Categorized in: FilingTeamwork

If your office collaborates on documents and data, inside and outside the organization, you may encounter collaborators using different office suites who need to work on the same file. “So that data file might pass between MS Office, LibreOffice, iWork, WPS—the list goes on and on,” says TechRepublic’s Jack Wallen. Wallen offers some tips to help make your files easy to share.
A new boss can introduce a lot of new elements to your work life, such as a new leadership style, a new way of communicating and new expectations. Career coach Joyce E.A. Russell offers these tips to help you cut through your anxiety and start adjusting to your new reality.

5 ways to assist remote teams

September 15, 2014 Categorized in: Teamwork

Being part of a remote team can be difficult for even the most skilled administrators. We reached out to companies with remote staffs to get the best advice on how to keep everyone productive.

3 ways to get a colleague to help

August 28, 2014 Categorized in: Problem SolvingTeamwork

Figuring out how to keep a project moving when you need help from a colleague can be challenging. Business writer Esther Schindler suggests these tips.

Does leadership = team success?

July 24, 2014 Categorized in: Teamwork

Po Bronson—The New York Times best-selling author of Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Los­­ing—is a big fan of using small teams to tackle big projects. But surely the smaller the team, the more critical the role of the team leader, right? Wrong.

Have you paid it forward?

July 24, 2014 Categorized in: Personal DevelopmentTeamwork

Remember the first day of your very first job? It might be hard to remember now that you are established in your career and feel competent, secure and confident.
Some jobs are emotionally draining and can create morale problems for the people who do them. If management can’t or won’t help address these problems, is there anything colleagues can do to help boost morale for one another?
In today’s open offices where communication is more casual, it feels like everyone is on equal footing and working for a meritocracy. But that’s wrong, says Jeffrey Pfeffer, an organizational behavior professor at Stanford University. Power structures haven’t changed much over time. Pfeffer offers three theories of why workplace hierarchies are still going strong.

Get the team together for a huddle

June 9, 2014 Categorized in: MeetingsTeamwork

Many of us work with colleagues who are based in different places. Coordinating progress and figuring out how to work together can be a time-consuming endeavor. That’s why Huddle is a lifesaver.
If you find yourself in a tough relationship with your boss, instead of updating your résumé and embarking on a quest for a new job, learn how to improve your relationship. Start now by asking yourself these four questions.

Inside an ‘untethered’ office

February 24, 2014 Categorized in: Teamwork

In a move uncommon in the United States but more popular in Europe, international real estate brokerage CBRE Group took away its em­­ployees’ personal space—offices, desks and file cabinets—and converted to an “untethered” office. Even the CEO has no home base within the office, writes Los Angeles Times reporter Roger Vincent, who took a look inside.