Continuous Coordination with Steady

About this guide

This guide provides managers & team leads with a proven system for building healthy, productive, high-performing teams using Steady and Continuous Coordination. With this guide and Steady, you have everything you need; a research-backed plan vetted by decades of real-world experience, and a purpose-built tool to implement it.

Chapters

1. Introduction An overview of the structural problems that plague modern knowledge work teams.
2. Getting your team on board How to get genuine buy-in from team members and set yourself up for success.
3. Setting the stage How to configure your Steady account and get ready for users.
4. Keeping individual teams in sync with Smart Check-ins Strategies and best practices for using Smart check-ins to keep a steady beat.
5. Driving cross-team alignment with Goal Stories Strategies and best practices for using Goal Stories to keep multiple teams aligned.
6. Personalizing context How to use Echoes agents to get the information you need, when you need it, automatically.
7. Building trust, autonomy, and accountability How to use Steady to take your team from high-efficiency to high-performance.
8. Increasing coordination efficiency Advanced techniques for further reducing coordination overhead on the entire team.
9. Assessing progress How to measure success with Steady and with you broader team performance goals.
10. Rolling out to other teams How to know when it's time to roll Steady out to other teams, and tips for doing so.
11. Troubleshooting Solutions to common problems that teams encounter when switching to Steady.
12. Additional resources Useful links, glossary, and additional reading, collected for your convenience.