I use the AlAnon approach[1].

People in my team can watch me carrying a bigger workload and still having time for my personal life and assorted hobbies and other interests.

This can backfire, however. There are some people who think I must be doing nothing because I haven't gained 20 pounds and lost my hair.

[1] in which my life gets better, i'm more on the ball and my game is *tight*. i hope that other people notice this change in my attitude and wonder, "hey, i wonder what emory is putting in his diet mountain dew when we're not looking?"

Oh man, this polls wasn't anonymous!? Oh well, anyway, it's not like my colleagues are reading boards on productivity hacks, is it? =)

Emory's response reminded me of an article done by Joel Spolsky : http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000332.html

It's a great article, and basically says that instead of trying to convert the team to use GTD, or your bugs database, just tell them where their input goes. If you are a hardcore inbox person like myself, instruct others to put anything that they need taken care of in your inbox. Get them to conform to the part of the system that they need to accomplish to keep your system running smoother.

Eventually someone else will start to use an inbox as well. The key is to get people to adopt slowly by leading with example.

We wanted a way to collaborate on projects and all use GTD style methods, while staying in communication on task status. At first we tried a mix of programs and ended up very disconnected and it was more work to manage, so we finally built our own.

Mentat is made to let you capture tasks from your desk, mobile, phone or wherever, and file them away speedily..but also lets you assign tasks to team members, add comments, status updates, etc. So if someone is on your project team, they have access to the same task lists. They add one, you see it, vice versa. When a task is closed or reassigned, a comment window pops up to let you tell the task owner or anyone following the task know what's up.

It's really been a boost for our productivity and remedied a lot of pains so we recently went live with it as a web service:
http://gomentat.com

Check it out with a free trial or personal account if you want & try it for your team GTD methods if you like it!