The Manager's Pocket Guide to Virtual Teams

Step B.Define categories of information

•   What it means:

—   Verifying that all tasks relate to stated goals

•   How it works:

—   Evaluate the kinds of information shared in the team

—   Compare information and activity with goals, tasks and objectives

—   Add new goals, tasks or objectives if necessary

The Idea

Defining categories of information is a check step to verify that all of the team’s activities relate to the stated goals, objectives and tasks. This step enables the team to determine how much of its work is deductive and how much is inductive.

If most of the issues you talk about as a team are not related to the mission, goals and objectives, that indicates that either the planning process is incomplete or there is a lot of wasted ...