| Hello Fellow Productivity Enthusiasts! Today on the blog, we're talking about Where You Fit: Understanding Your Role on the Team. In some ways, the modern workplace represents an odd bundle of contradictions. At one level, each of us focuses on our own careers, the goal being to work our way up the ladder until we reach a comfortable spot—or even the top. We expect others to see to their own well-being and careers. But on another level, because we're a cooperative species, we also tend to help each other with mentoring, recommendations, advice, getting our feet in the door, etc. And almost all of us work on teams, where we have no choice but to help each other and work cooperatively if we expect to produce quality work that gets us noticed and rewarded by our superiors. Continue reading here >> On Friday's Productivity Pro Podcast, I talked about Getting Clarity of Outcomes for Decision-Making. Read Thursday's LinkedIn article: Leadership by Consensus: The Self-Sustaining Team. Announcing the 2016 Productivity University Series! Join me for a virtual keynote series providing time management education for leaders, based on my newest book, Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time (Berrett-Koehler, January 2016). Thank you for joining me, and have a productive day! All the best, Laura Stack 303-471-7401 Laura@TheProductivityPro.com ?Subscribe to my weekly podcast Check my calendar to see when I'm in your area! Download a FREE trial of my new Productivity Pro® Portal with 100+ hours of online productivity education? |