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How to Increase Collaboration and Performance — Interview with Emma Hamer
November 13th, 2006 | Posted in Podcasts 5 Comments »
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Duration: 42 min.
Emma Hamer, a performance improvement consultant in Vancouver, Canada, explains how to move your performance up to another level by setting up the ideal collaborative workspace, overcoming team members’ fears of change, and addressing other common problems in the workplace.
In this podcast, she covers the following:
- Helping writers cope with major changes (such as implementing a CMS)
- Understanding the difference between a group and a team
- Radically increasing collaboration and communication on project teams
- Changing the way your workspace is organized
- Encouraging your employees to present great ideas
- Dealing with lack of consensus in a department
- Understanding human factors about managing and leading
- Making performance reviews less burdensome and more accurate
To contact Emma, send an e-mail to echamer@hamer-associates.ca. You can also visit her website at http://hamer-associates.ca/.
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keep up the good work, I like the interviews alot, they provide new insights and help expand existing projects.
Regards
colin latham
[...] Why? Because I believe that is what a good technical communicator should do. Keeping up to date with new trends and technology is also common sense, even if from a distance. It keeps you prepared and ready for what your manager or customer might throw on your desk one day. It helps you to plan for the future, whether the future is just around the corner or several years away. In fact, you can hear more reasons from Emma Hamer in one of Tom’s podcasts: How to Increase Collaboration and Performance. I found this one so interesting that I listened to it twice! [...]
I am interested in on line technical wrting I am B.E.( Electronics & Comm ) and M-Tech computer Technology . I have 37 years experience in Telecommunication field attached to specification & standard writing institute . I am retired now . I feel my knowledge could be utiliesd in full by technical writers job . Can you help me ?
You should locate the nearest STC chapter to you and ask if there is anyone who could give you detailed advice. Go to STC.org and then Membership > STC Chapters. You can also try some listservs, such as TECHWR-L and Tech Comm Pros.
[...] year I interviewed Emma Hamer, a performance management consultant in Canada, for a Tech Writer Voices podcast. She firmly [...]