HBR Guide to Collaborative Teams

✍ Scribed by Harvard Business Review

• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Series: HBR Guide Series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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