Working Together
Does your team share a result, pass work along, or work back and forth?
Pooled, sequential and reciprocal dependencies call for different coordination. Map how work moves before adding another meeting.
LEADERSHIP · TEAMS · CHANGE
Make the work easier to understand.
Practical notes on leading a team, sharing responsibility and turning a discussion into a decision people can use.
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People and Work
Job enlargement and job enrichment change work in different ways
More tasks and more decision-making are different job-design changes. Use a concrete example to compare enlargement with enrichment.
Leadership Development
Start succession planning with the work that cannot stop
Find business-critical responsibilities before naming successors. Build a practical development plan around knowledge, access and decision-making.
Leadership Practice
Resource levelling can move a project’s finish date
Resource levelling can move a finish date because people cannot perform overlapping assignments indefinitely. Read the schedule assumptions first.
Leadership Practice
An after-action review works best before memories become a shared story
Run an after-action review that separates expectations from events, invites different perspectives and turns observations into a small set of owned improvements.
Team Learning
The bus factor reveals work that depends on one unavailable person
A team can depend heavily on one person’s knowledge even when it has many members. Use the bus-factor idea to identify fragile handovers without blaming experts.