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Signal vs. Noise

Signal vs. Noise

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Signal vs. Noise

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- [Instructor] Your team has embraced open transparent communication. Awesome, right? You've even set up several automated messages using ChatOps principles. Hooray. But uh oh. There's an unintended consequence of all of these efforts. You're feeling completely overwhelmed by all of the information coming at you. It feels sometimes like you're drinking from a fire hose and it's hard to separate out what's important and what's not. Take a deep breath because there are ways to separate out the signal, the information that you want from the noise. The stuff that's not really as relevant. Step one, making managing communications a priority. Too often communication management is seen as not really as important as the other work so it's just not done. Instead too many people just suffer through the onslaught of notifications. Instead of being a passive recipient, set aside time and make optimizing your notifications a priority. Investing as little as 15 to 20 minutes per week now can save…

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