Build high-performing teams

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1. As you progress in your career, try to work on and/or to build teams that are full of people who are at the top of their game individually AND who think and operate like a team.

• The Important of Working with "A" Players

• A Study of Thousands of Dropbox Projects Reveals How Successful Teams Collaborate

• Creating a High-Trust, High-Performance Culture + check out ReWork by Google for guides

2. If you're not on one of those teams right now, it's ok! Most of us go through cycles of being on high performing teams and on 'normal teams.' To help your 'normal' team thrive & grow, consider two ways that you can help your team have more impact:

• Run more effective meetings (thereby saving time and demonstrating efficient decision-making/organization)

• Consider implementing OKRs & using these stretch goals to push the team

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Do you speak data?

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Do you speak data?

As you consider or advance a career in tech, you need to sharpen your data literacy and analytics skills.

• Understand your fluency level with data manipulation.

• Figure out if you are a data translator as they help bridge the gap between data scientists and executive decision-makers.

• Check out these 6 rules from Google for great data design.

• Mastering these skills is critical before progressing to the next level Data/AI skills required for ‘Jobs of Tomorrow,’ according to the World Economic Forum.

Does your team speak data?

You should evaluate the digital dexterity and the data literacy skills of the team/business unit/company that you are joining.

• Don’t assume that your team is data literate simply because it’s a tech firm. You’d be surprised how often everyone needs to build and refresh those skills, mainly because data availability and the tools to manipulate it keep changing!

• Here are two great guides (one from HBR and another from Gartner) on how to boost your team’s data literacy skills. It’s crucial that you understand how tech-literate your team is to help you when launching new initiatives.

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