Team Habits Update #3
More language rights acquisitions, long listed as an outstanding work of literature, and now available on Spotify Premium
I thought I’d give an update on what’s going on with Team Habits and I’m counting it as #3 since there have been at least two other updates about it. This may turn into a monthly-ish update and/or I may sprinkle it into other posts that will be flowing.
I’ll split this update between updates about the book and updates about the publication. Let’s go!
Team Habits Updates
We’re a little over 12 weeks into the release of Team Habits. This book launch has been more of a strawberry plant taking over a yard than a bamboo shoot and it continues to unfold that way.
November brought with it three welcome surprises for Team Habits:
Two more foreign rights acquisitions: Simplified Chinese and Arabic. That brings us up to nine languages. It’s cool to think about readers being able to read Team Habits in their native language around the world.
Team Habits is in Bookpal’s long list of 2023’s Outstanding Works of Literature in the Management and Culture category. I’m grateful and happy to even be on the long list, but of course, I’d love for Team Habits to keep going forward in the competition. :)
Team Habits is streamable via Spotify Premium here. Spotify Premium users get 15 hours of streaming a month and with the narration length being a little over eight hours, Team Habits can be one of your books for the month.
Better Team Habits Publication Updates
Back in October, I decided to move Productive Flourishing to Substack. In relation to Team Habits, here’s what to be on the lookout for:
Team Habits-related Office Hours. While they’re ostensibly about team habits, bring any teamwork, leadership, or organization questions to the office hours to get a mix of on-demand teaching, coaching, and brainstorming for how to help your team work better. Be on the lookout for a post about this in the next few days.
A 20% group discount is available for paid subscriptions. Get a subscription for your entire team and any of you can show up for Office Hours, join in on Q&As, or get other exclusives only available to paying subscribers.
Announcement posts about interviews and off-site articles. I’ve figured out how I’m going to share the content I’m creating elsewhere here. For instance, I had an article in Forbes last week.
More frequent short posts. Between counterpoints to the
WTAF?!different perspectives I see, sharing good ideas that I find, and quick tips that fall out of sessions with clients, I have a lot I’d like to share that I haven’t out of fear that I’d be posting too much. That said, I’ve also done enough short post sprints to know that it’s my leader and team readers who most prefer the 300-500 word posts and not sharing isn’t helping any of us.
A December Reminder
For the last few months, I’ve been telling Productive Flourishing readers not to get fooled by the optics of the calendar. While December appears to be a full, long month, from a work perspective, it only has two weeks in it.
You’re probably feeling that with your team, but what are you doing to talk about it? I’ll ask some guiding questions:
What can be dropped completely? Start with subtracting. There’s usually something that the team committed to a few months ago that’s no longer relevant, but because it’s a team commitment, no single person can just delete it on their own.
What are you going to punt until mid-January? Don’t do the thing where you punt it to the first week of January, knowing full well that’s a transition week that is typically tough for decision-making and planning.
What are you going to essentialize so that you can get it done this month? While scope and project creep are always worth watching out for, this month is a particularly good month to be more discerning about it. Remember, focusing on the half that matters is not half-assing it.
Drop, punt, essentialize, in that order. A good bit of your team’s work is already not going to get done or slide into next year anyway. Work on those goal-setting, prioritization, and communication team habits together so the right things get done well.
If you’d like to bring me to help improve your team habits, the best starting place is a Team Habits Assessment. We can get your team’s assessment locked in this year and run it mid-January.
Please Leave A Review For Team Habits
If you haven’t done so already, please leave a review of Team Habits on Amazon. You can still leave a review if you didn’t buy the book from Amazon and you don’t have to read the entire book to leave a review. (So many people tell me they’re waiting to finish the book.)
Aside from buying the book for yourself or your teammates, leaving a review is the single best way to help me get the book in more people’s hands. Thanks for helping to make work work better for everyone.