(校稿任务) 第八十六篇 Four Tips for Keeping a Team Up to Speed

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Four Tips for Keeping a Team Up to Speed
建立一个高效团队的四条法则

Removing the barriers to momentum and success
消除障碍，借势成功

During your career, it can be tempting to fall into comfortable patterns, turn autopilot on, and coast from project to project. But as your job description changes and projects become more complex, it’s imperative to be alert and aware while in the driver’s seat so you don’t create roadblocks that cause project teams falter and pause.
在你的职业生涯中,它可以让人陷入舒适的模式,开启自动驾驶仪,来从项目到项目转换。但随着你的职位描述变化和项目变得更加复杂,有必要警觉和意识司机的座位,所以你不要建立路障,导致项目团队动摇和暂停。

Incorporate the following tips to ensure that you and your project team can keep moving quickly and reach your goal.
合并下面的建议来确保你和你的项目团队能够保持快速移动并达到你的目标。

Work toward goals while in your work space当您在工作空间时工作朝着目标

Have you ever sat at your desk thinking about what you needed to do, but kept putting off the tasks at hand in favor of procrastinating? Sometimes when we are sitting in our work area, we trick ourselves into thinking that we are being productive. This is because we are so close to actually being productive: We have the desk prepared, the computer is powered on, and the pen is poised. But we are fooling ourselves. Productivity is not an area; it is an action.
你曾经坐在你的桌子边思考你需要做什么,但一直推迟手头的工作有利于拖延吗?有时当我们坐在我们的工作区域,我们欺骗自己,认为我们富有成效。这是因为我们是如此接近实际生产:我们准备了桌子,计算机开机了,笔准备了。但我们是在欺骗自己。生产率不是一个区域;它是一个行动。

To help rid yourself and your team of this habit, set goals or a quota to reach by a specific time. If you are sitting in your work space and not working, it means you need to take an actual break. You are not making yourself more productive by staring at the computer screen. Stop “working” and do whatever it is that is distracting you, whether that’s getting lost in the world of Facebook status updates or scrolling through your Pinterest account. Then come back to your work space with a goal in mind, and don’t take any breaks until your goal is completed. Most people find their groove when they are working toward a goal, so don’t be surprised if you don’t need a break after you have completed your task. By setting goals for yourself, you’ll find you can’t be so easily distracted and will accomplish more.
为了帮助去除你自己和你的团队的这种习惯,设定目标或一个配额在一定的时间内达到。如果你坐在你的工作空间不工作,这意味着你需要一个实际的调整。你不让自己更专注的盯着电脑屏幕。停止“工作”和做任何可以分散你的事,不管是让你迷失世界的Facebook状态更新或者浏览你的Pinterest帐户。然后头脑中带着某种目的的回到你的工作空间,不要任何休息,直到你的目标完成。大多数人发现他们的最佳状态是当他们朝目标努力工作时,所以不要惊讶,如果你已完成你的任务后不需要休息。为自己设定的目标,你会发现你不能这么容易分心和将完成更多。

Healthy team dynamics
健康团队的动力

Although team members’ hard skills are an important aspect of any project team, it is important that the team not lose sight of the soft skills that make working together possible. Conflict within a project team can be one of the biggest barriers to speed and can not only be frustrating but a waste of time and resources.
虽然在任何一个项目团队中，团队成员的硬技能是非常重要的一方面，但是为了确保团队合作软技能也是不容忽视的。内部冲突常常是一个项目团队工作不能按计划完成的最大障碍，不仅使人感到挫败，而且浪费时间与资源。

Growing up, we’ve all learned the golden rule: Treat others the way that you want to be treated. But to ensure that your project team is harmonious and successful, make sure that you are all following the platinum rule: Treat others how they want to be treated. The more you pay attention to how others prefer to communicate and the style of work that they prefer, the better you will be able to work in a way that maximizes their capabilities.
在成长中我们都学会了黄金法则:你对待别人的方式,也希望被别人对待。但是,为了确保你的项目团队是和谐和成功的,确信你所有的这些白金规则:怎样对待别人，就是他们想怎样被别人对待。你更需要注意别人如何优先选择的交流和工作风格,你更好的能以最大限度发挥他们的能力来工作。

Take a “funk-buster” break
突破“恐怖克星”

It’s 3 p.m. You are on your third cup of coffee and staring at your computer, but for some reason your brain won’t work, and you still have to finish your quarterly report. This condition is commonly referred to as a “funk” and happens when your body thinks it is sleeping because it hasn’t exerted any energy for a significant period of time. When you find yourself in a funk, instead of trying to push your way through it, take a break. Get up out of your chair and do some jumping jacks. Take a walk around the block. Have a small dance party for one. Stop the funk as soon as you can by getting some motion into your body to remind your brain that it needs to be on alert and ready for action.
下午3点，你在喝你的第三杯咖啡，同时盯着你的电脑，但由于某种原因，你的头脑不想工作，而你仍然不得不完成你的季度报告。这种情况通常被称为一个“恐慌”，它发生时你的身体处于倦意状态，因为在相当一段时间内它没有产生任何能量。当你发现自己陷入恐慌中，试图通过自己的方式改变它，那么稍事休息一下。离开你的椅子，做一些跳跃，在周围散散步，或来个小舞蹈晚会。你可以通过身体一些运动提醒你的大脑，尽快停止恐慌，它需要提高警觉，随时准备工作。

Achieve flow
实现流

You now have a productive project team that sets time and space boundaries, has great team dynamics, and is funk-proof. The next thing to do is to ensure that your team has the skills and motivation required to get the tasks done. For your project team to be the most efficient, each team member should be able to consistently achieve a state of flow while performing project tasks. Flow is a mental state where an individual is completely immersed and focused on the tasks at hand. Flow happens when there is a balance between ability level and challenge, and when there is a very clear goal.
现在你有一个可以给时空设置边界，有着巨大的团队动力甚至是无懈可击的高效项目团队。那么接下来要做的是保证你的团队有着完成任务的技能与激情。为促使你的项目团队达到效率最优化，每个团队成员都应在完成项目任务时尽可能始终如一地实现流程规则。流程是描述个体（成员）完全沉浸和关注于手上任务的精神状态，它运行在能力水平与挑战达到平衡时且有着清晰目标的时机状态下。

The three biggest barriers to achieving flow are inadequate skills or preparation, confusion as to what the end goal is, and a lack of personal meaning in the task at hand. Make sure that your team members have the skill sets they require for their project deliverables, are able to keep their eyes on the prize with clear goals, and have a vested interest in what it is they are doing.
实现流最大的三个瓶颈就是团队没有适当的技能、没有充分的准备、对最终目标的迷茫，甚至缺乏对自身任务意义的认知。为确保你的团队成员掌握这些技能要求，为达到项目交付，他们尽可能的带着明确的目标来关注完成项目的奖励，并有对自己正在做的事具有浓厚的兴趣。

Keep these tips in mind when you are safely steering your project team around barriers to speed and toward project success.
当你在这些瓶颈中安全滴指挥你的项目团队快速驶向项目成功的彼岸时，请记住这些秘诀。

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Michelle LaBrosse
米歇尔*兰布斯

Michelle LaBrosse is an entrepreneurial powerhouse with a penchant for making success easy, fun, and fast. She is the founder of Cheetah Learning, a global firm employing more than 100 people that specializes in combining accelerated learning and project management to help people achieve their goals faster than they ever before imagined. She is the author of the Cheetah Success Series, and a prolific blogger whose mission is to bring project management to the masses. She is a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Owner President Manager’s program and also holds aerospace and mechanical engineering degrees from Syracuse University and the University of Dayton.
米歇尔*兰布斯是一个与企业有关的精力旺盛的人,倾向于成功简单,有趣,快。她创办了猎豹学习,一个全球公司，雇员超过100人,专门从事结合加速学习和项目管理,以帮助人们达到比他们以前想象还快的目标。她是猎豹成功系列的作者,和一个多产的博客,其使命是将项目管理知识传播给民众。她毕业于哈佛商学院的所有者经理的项目,也拥有锡拉丘兹大学和代顿大学的航空和机械工程学位。