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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
All Business All the Time
What’s been lost is the ability to check in and observe how your team is really doing.
Make an investment of time and effort into your team. Rewrite the script on the traditional update meeting by focusing the first 10-15 minutes on personal talk. Ask broad, exploratory questions such as, “How are you?” and don’t let “fine” be the answer. “Tell me more about that…” is a great follow-up that I often use to get people to elaborate without leading them or making them feel uncomfortable. And most importantly, open up and share about yourself.
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Cameras Off
I’m surprised how many people still jump onto video calls with their cameras off. Excuses abound, from no excuse to messy backgrounds or hair to more legitimate technical issues. Yet people then complain that they can’t make the same connection with their colleagues as they can in person.
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Talking About Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle
Embrace change and co-create a solution with your employees. Take the time to learn what they want. Help them understand your own concerns. Share if you are worried about lack of team cohesion, or collaboration, or finding the next brilliant idea. If you have a lease hanging over your head, perha...
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There are established ways to cultivate positive team cultures, even virtually.
- Schedule time for virtual water-cooler chats.
- Consider how you're going to work together and what the rules of engagement will be.
- Introduce a daily stand-up meeting, no more than 15 min...
Take the time to plan
Make a plan for how you’re going to handle as a team everything that you have to do.
Create a shared calendar with all of your tasks and responsibilities, and block specific hours for when you’re going to do them. Take the time for weekly meeting, to plan the week ahead.
Three Signs You’ve Named the Right Change
How do you know you’ve nailed this critical element of your story for sales, fundraising and leadership?
- You’re ready to replace traditional mission and vision statements with the change—and the future you commit to making real for your audience
- You can imagine that 90% of yo...
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