Team Habits: How Small Actions Lead to Extraordinary Results

by Charlie Gilkey Narrated by Charlie Gilkey

Overview

In this powerful guide to companywide success, the author of Start Finishing reveals how to improve any team's habits in a way that leads to bottom line results while also boosting belonging, morale, and engagement.

We typically work most directly with a small group of no more than 10 people, and in that team, we have a high degree of influence.* Charlie Gilkey, an internationally known thought leader on productivity, planning, strategy, and leadership for creative people, explains how changing our team's habits can change our company's culture since that culture is always just an aggregation of its various teams' work habits.
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We all know how important habits are for personal effectiveness, success, and happiness. We can apply many of the same principles and insights about personal habits to our teams. When we do, not only do we accrue the personal benefits for ourselves, but we accrue them with and for our team. If small habit changes lead to powerful results for individuals, imagine what it can do for teams.* Focusing on improving how people work together at the team level means there's no need for a top¿down initiative or sign¿off by the higher¿ups to start making our working lives better.
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How a team schedules its meetings is a team habit, as is whether and how they share agendas before the meeting.* How teammates loop others into emails or Slack messages is a team habit, as is whether they have the practice of cc'ing or group¿bombing everyone to make sure they cover their bases.* How teammates communicate about being uninterruptible, or that they are never uninterruptible, are team habits.* These team habits explain how we can like the people we're working with and feel like we want the same things yet find ourselves regularly flummoxed about how hard it is to work with them.
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Team Habits offers a Team Habits Quiz, allowing readers to discover the patterns and areas for improvement on their business team.* Gilkey offers tips on Communication (“What needs to be communicated NOW versus what can wait”), Meetings (“The ultimate question to determine whether your meeting was worth it”), Belonging (“Why getting your teammate coffee isn't about the coffee”), and much more.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

When so many workplaces struggle with firmly established norms and limitations, Team Habits is an instruction manual to stop fixating on the things you can’t change while overlooking the stuff you can change right in front of you.”—Captain D. Michael Abrashoff, New York Times bestselling author of It’s Your Ship

“Charlie Gilkey’s Team Habits offers a compelling roadmap that can help any group find a path to higher performance. By addressing the small but critical behaviors that shape our daily interactions, this book equips leaders to cultivate an environment of productivity and purpose.”—Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE POWER OF REGRET

"Team Habits synthesizes complex challenges of team management into solutions that will lead to increased performance, while centering the humanity of everyone in the organization. This is the modern business handbook that should sit on everyone’s desk."—Pamela Slim, author of Body of Work and The Widest Net

“Team Habits is success-critical reading for every leader! Packed with practical, actionable insights, tools and strategies, with a unique focus on habits that build belonging and fuel performance, Gilkey has created an essential reference for those to aspire to collective greatness." —Johnathan Fields, Bestselling author of SPARKED, founder of Good Life Project®

“Team Habits will help you get away from the craziness of "who's doing what" to the calmness of a team working together to get the most important things handled.”—John Jantsch, author of Duct Tape Marketing and The Ultimate Marketing Engine

“Team Habits details the critical role belonging plays in any team’s health and results, elaborating on specific actions that establish team cultures that are truly inclusive. This is a must for anyone leading a team at a time when we are re-inventing the rules of work.”—Jennifer Brown, bestselling author of How to be an Inclusive Leader

author of It’s Your Ship Captain D. Michael Abrashoff

Team Habits is an instruction manual to stop fixating on the things you can’t change while overlooking the stuff you can change right in front of you.”

#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel H. Pink

Offers a compelling roadmap that can help any group find a path to higher performance. By addressing the small but critical behaviors that shape our daily interactions, this book equips leaders to cultivate an environment of productivity and purpose.”

author of Duct Tape Marketing John Jantsch

Will help you get away from the craziness of ‘who’s doing what’ to the calmness of a team working together to get the most important things handled.”

Product Details

BN ID:	2940178263211
Publisher:	Hachette Audio
Publication date:	08/29/2023
Edition description:	Unabridged

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