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Title: Faster Together
Subtitle: Accelerating Your Team's Productivity
Author: Laura Stack
Narrator: Laura Stack
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-22-17
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Genres: Business, Career Skills
Publisher's Summary:
Don't Slow Down-Team Up!
With countless emails, constant communication, cascading deadlines, and seemingly endless meetings, it's a wonder any of us gets anything done these days. You can try working harder or faster or smarter, but what really makes the difference is teaming well.
A good team is the most powerful productivity machine in existence. Laura Stack's FAST model mobilizes teams to be the most effective they can be, while keeping each other's best interests at heart. Teams learn to work together Fairly, accept Accountability, apply Systems Thinking, and maximize available Technology.
An interactive assessment helps you evaluate your team's current speed and rate of acceleration. Every team may have its stars, but they couldn't do their jobs without the rest of the team doing theirs. By the end of this audiobook, you'll truly understand the abilities of your team and how each member makes things go. So, rev your team's engines, and you'll soon be roaring down the track together!
Members Reviews:
Increase Your Teamâs Productivity
Right from the introduction of Laura Stackâs latest book, you get the feeling that youâre behind the
wheel of a race car at a NASCAR event. The tips and techniques come fast and furiously as you speed
around the track. Although odd to say about a business book, the writing actually captures the mood of
the authorâs goal: to speed teams of employees (not just individuals) along to increased productivity.
The book focuses on four keys to productivity: 1) Fairness 2) Accountability 3) Systems-Thinking 4)
Technology. My favorite section: âSystems-Thinkingâ! As a salesperson and consultant in and out of
corporations for most of my career and as a volunteer serving in nonprofits, Iâve observed this as the
biggest weakness for corporations. Teams often bog down in their systems: They fail to consider the
long-term consequences of short-term actions.
Under the four âkeys,â the book addresses many topics: What to do with the toxic teammate. What to
put on your Not-To- Do list. How to take the initiative when your meeting facilitator fails. How to decide
which method of communication is most appropriate for what situation. When consensus is the best
approach for decision-making. And so much more.
Itâs a rare business book that captures the emotion, camaraderie, and the exhilaration of speed and
accomplishment. Stackâs book manages to do just that. I highly recommend this book if youâre looking
to increase productivity as a team.
Owners Manual for Driving a FAST Team
Laura Stack is the Productivity Pro and she has written several books on individual productivity, but this is her first on improving team productivity.
Since I am a professional meeting facilitator, I was particularly impressed with how she broke down the elements of team productivity into four FAST keys - each with three accelerators. There's a quick test to take to assess your team's productivity - and then you can use the book as a training guide or "owner's manual" into accelerating the performance of the team.
It's written in such a way that the team can take one key or even one accelerator and drive performance around it - assign the pages to read, then discuss as a team what they are doing well and what they can do better.