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How Stable is your Digital Team?
Microsoft Teams Laurence Lock Lee Microsoft Teams Laurence Lock Lee

How Stable is your Digital Team?

We’ve taken a deep dive to analyse more than 1,300 digital teams and discovered some surprising results. While stability is easier to achieve in small teams, stability in larger teams could impact negatively on diversity and innovation, and sometimes lead to a toxic work environment.

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Building High Performance Online Teams
Microsoft Teams Laurence Lock Lee Microsoft Teams Laurence Lock Lee

Building High Performance Online Teams

What does a high performing team online look like? What measures should leaders adopt when monitoring and guiding their team’s performance? We’re about to take you on a deep dive into analysing what “good looks like” for high performing teams. This article builds on our introductory post on Building Better Online groupswhere we identified that not all online groups are formed equal and that a more bespoke analytics approach is required for the different types of online groups. The ‘Team’ was one such grouping identified.

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Productivity = Effectiveness + Efficiency: Measuring Effectiveness with SWOOP
Thought Leadership Laurence Lock Lee Thought Leadership Laurence Lock Lee

Productivity = Effectiveness + Efficiency: Measuring Effectiveness with SWOOP

Today the technical and business press is filled with stories about the productivity gains available through a digitally disrupted workplace. ‘Bots’ have replaced ‘Apps’ as the ‘must have’ technology gadget. We like Bots because they promise to take away the drudgery of dealing with mindless bureaucratic work processes, freeing our time for tasks that can employ our full intellectual selves. But we always have to remember that productivity has two parts; Effectiveness and Efficiency, or as I like to frame them: ‘Doing the Right Thing’ and ‘Doing it Right’. And of course being extremely efficient doing the ‘wrong’ thing is just a waste! 

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