When you think about what makes a high-functioning team (whether in person, remote or hybrid) really click, several factors come to mind. In our research for The Long-Distance Teammate, we discovered one of the most important things that contribute to a really solid, trusting, team culture: a constant flow of feedback from and to our colleagues. Giving is as important as … [Read more...]
Creating a Hybrid Meeting Culture
How did meetings work in your organization before the pandemic? Now that you're working in a hybrid fashion, have you made adjustments to that meeting culture? Kevin explains some important distinctions that certainly make a big difference. https://youtu.be/0sBzCDP3-iU Stay in the know with all the latest developments in remote work with the Future of Work newsletter. … [Read more...]
Avoiding Cliques on Your Hybrid Team
When you have a hybrid team, some of your team works in the office, some work from home, and some work who-knows-where depending on the day. That can make it hard to create a cohesive team. It isn’t that the team intentionally doesn’t want to work with people who don’t share their workspace, or that managers mean to exclude certain people from team tasks. But whether or not … [Read more...]
Finding the Right People to Work for Your Hybrid Team
It’s one thing to have an existing team change the way they work. But what about bringing new people into the fold on a hybrid team? Most of the focus on returning to work has been on getting your existing team members to work together in more of a hybrid way. Not everyone is going to be back in the office five days a week. Some will, others will be remote most of the time, … [Read more...]
Inventing Fire and Getting People to Use Teams
Humans have a love-hate relationship with technology. We curse the need to be tethered to email and Slack for work while not being able to avoid our personal screens for more than a few minutes at a time. Everyone complains about the tools they have at their disposal, but shudder at the thought of learning even one more software package or remembering another password. As we … [Read more...]