New answers tagged group-dynamics
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How do I convince older academics to switch to MS Teams rather than using email?
Any tools are as good as all people are able to learn them and want to use them properly.
The problem with cluttered e-mail is not the e-mail system. It's people cluttering the system.
I'm quite ...
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How do I convince older academics to switch to MS Teams rather than using email?
You see a problem and you're proposing a solution. Does the rest of the research group agree that this is a problem? For example, can you point to recent instances where someone missed an important ...
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How do I convince older academics to switch to MS Teams rather than using email?
For me, the problem with email is not about communcation methods -- email versus chat. Asynchronous communication is fine for collaboration. The problem is maintaining accessible information over time....
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How do I convince older academics to switch to MS Teams rather than using email?
As someone with lots of experience with all kinds of tools, it's better to convince people to use email threads and labels properly and effectively than an entirely new system. The proliferation of ...
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Should the progress of Phd Students be transparent among group members?
My supervisor used to do group meetings where we would all give a brief update on what we'd been working on. This was once a month rather than once a week though. I found it helpful to hear about what ...
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Should the progress of Phd Students be transparent among group members?
I may have to amend this but if the students interpret this as increasing pressure, then it probably is, in fact, increasing pressure and that seems to be to exactly nobody's benefit. Artificially ...
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