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How to balance flexibility and structure in a hybrid team environment
Understanding the challenges of managing a hybrid team
How to maintain team cohesion
Create An Equal Playing Field For In-Person and Remote Employees
Oten, remote employees feel like they’re not getting an equal experience to employees that work in the office.
- Take meetings, for example. Face-to-face communication is typically easier and more seamless than virtual conversations. So, when you have employees attending a meeting both in person and remotely, it can be easy for in-person employees to dominate the conversation.
- So, for the meeting example, you might have “employees in the office also call into the meeting remotely to equalize the experience,” says Keswin.
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Set Clear Expectations
A lack of clarity can lead to issues in hybrid teams; if employees don’t know who is responsible for what or what’s expected of them, both individually and as a team, it can cause conflict.
So, if you want to better manage conflict on your team, make sure you’re set...
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Spend Time Building Trust
If there’s no trust within your hybrid team—both in leadership and in fellow team members—you can pretty much guarantee there’s going to be conflict.
If you want to effectively manage conflict with your team, building trust is a must—and that means investing time in getting to know your te...
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Foster Communication
When you have team members working in different locations, communication can be a challenge. In-person employees might spend the bulk of their day talking to their co-worker in the next cubicle over—while remote workers struggle to form a real connection with their team members.
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Recognize All Employees’ Contributions
It’s easy to give recognition to employees that share your office space via a “great job on that project!” as you walk by their desk. But those spontaneous opportunities for recognition and acknowledgement don’t exist for remote employees.
There’s a risk of remote employees being ‘out of ...
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