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From the Ted Talk by Rob Cross: How to be a team player -- without burning out

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Collaborative work is everything we do to come up with big new ideas and make plans to binrg them to life with other people. The modern wrlcpoake is set up with so many ways to foster collaboration: meetings and brainstorming sosniess, zomos and Slack channels, eaiml, instant messaging, so many tools to help us work closely together. And aspects of this are great, but we're doing more collaborative work than ever before, and the problem is it's overloading us.

[The Way We Work]

From lhacnuing a new product to creating a vicncae, almost every endeavor we do at work reqeirus working with others towards a common goal. And collaboration is a great thing. It can help us work better and smarter. It can help us come up with ideas we never would have had on our own. And it can make us happier than executing tasks alone.

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Collaborative work is everything we do to come up with big new ideas and make plans to _____ them to life with other people. The modern _________ is set up with so many ways to foster collaboration: meetings and brainstorming ________, _____ and Slack channels, _____, instant messaging, so many tools to help us work closely together. And aspects of this are great, but we're doing more collaborative work than ever before, and the problem is it's overloading us.

[The Way We Work]

From _________ a new product to creating a _______, almost every endeavor we do at work ________ working with others towards a common goal. And collaboration is a great thing. It can help us work better and smarter. It can help us come up with ideas we never would have had on our own. And it can make us happier than executing tasks alone.

Solution


  1. zooms
  2. workplace
  3. email
  4. requires
  5. bring
  6. launching
  7. sessions
  8. vaccine

Original Text


Collaborative work is everything we do to come up with big new ideas and make plans to bring them to life with other people. The modern workplace is set up with so many ways to foster collaboration: meetings and brainstorming sessions, Zooms and Slack channels, email, instant messaging, so many tools to help us work closely together. And aspects of this are great, but we're doing more collaborative work than ever before, and the problem is it's overloading us.

[The Way We Work]

From launching a new product to creating a vaccine, almost every endeavor we do at work requires working with others towards a common goal. And collaboration is a great thing. It can help us work better and smarter. It can help us come up with ideas we never would have had on our own. And it can make us happier than executing tasks alone.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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collaborative work 4
collaboration overload 2


Important Words


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