We won’t sugarcoat it: cross-functional collaboration is hard. When you pull together people from disparate departments into one unit, it’s common to grapple with poor communication, mistrust, lack of alignment, and confusing team dynamics. As the leader or project manager, you have the daunting responsibility of getting everybody on the same page — and these cross-functional team building activities are a great place to start.
In July we released a host of updates to help you and your teams innovate from one visual workspace. This includes new product development features, dashboard user interface improvements, and a new way to connect Miro across your Google Workspace. We’ve also made a number of enhancements to accessibility such as the ability to add alt text to images and color contrast enhancements for improved visibility. Keep reading to get all the details!
Nailing Jell-O to a wall. Playing telephone… You’ve probably heard these sayings before. But if you’ve ever been tasked with leading stakeholder management for a project, you know those phrases are more than just funny idioms — in most cases, they adequately describe the headache-inducing process of managing your stakeholders.
Joel Bancroft-Connors has always had a vested interest in the technology and tools organizations use to effectively collaborate. He’s a certified scrum trainer, team coach, and consultant also known as The Gorilla Coach — a nickname born from his blog featuring his expertise in Agile. “I’m really focused on helping organizations to generate more sustainable business,” Bancroft-Connors said.
As more enterprise organizations embrace remote and hybrid work and bring together employees and external partners spread around the globe, they are faced with new challenges to ensure their sensitive data stays safe. This includes data from Miro, a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to build the next big thing. But with 40% of full-time employees working from home at least part of the time, there is greater risk.
Diverse teams outperform homogeneous teams. And when we say “diverse” we mean teams with different characteristics or traits, such as professional experience, life experience, identities, roles, etc. These individual differences create diversity of thought. That might feel like an overstatement or a broad generalization, but there’s plenty of research that backs it up. Diverse groups are better at: With such clear benefits, thought diversity offers a boost to any type of team.
I’ve built my 20-plus-year career through continuous learning. I’m intensely curious about people and technology, and the way people experience technology and the world around them. This curiosity has fueled a learner’s mindset that urges me to always want to know what’s next.
Have you ever felt stuck and uninspired when creating endless slides and presentations? Do they all start to look the same after a while? These Miro apps are here to solve the never-ending challenge of finding creative content for your presentations. And with access directly from Miro, you won’t have to go anywhere else to find millions of images, GIFs, brand logos, and custom illustrations.
Tens of thousands of organisations today use PI planning as a way to align their Agile delivery teams and stakeholders to a shared mission and vision. These large-scale, multi-day, collaborative planning events help enterprises to align strategy and execution, plan a continuous flow of value to the customer on a regular and predictable cadence, identify dependencies, foster cross-team collaboration, and ensure that the planning is done by those that do the work.
Change is the only constant in life, as the saying goes, and this rings truer than ever for today’s knowledge workers. We live in a time of sweeping shifts, from the promises and pitfalls of artificial intelligence (AI) to tech sector job cuts and learning to navigate new ways of working. It seems only natural then, that people might feel the need to upskill in the face of certain uncertainty.
