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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
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In all honesty, almost everything you need to know about building rapport and being a good colleague you likely learned in kindergarten with this golden rule: treat others the way you want to be treated.
It sounds basic, but it’s important. You can bring in donuts or make an effort to ask s...
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Recognition at work is so often talked about from the top-down—as if it always has to come from senior leadership or a manager.
People want to know when they’re doing well, and hearing that (especially u...
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Officially, the word rapport is defined as a friendly, harmonious relationship. Especially: a relationship characterized by agreement, mutual understanding, or empathy that makes communication possible or easy.
Rapport goes further than simply talking about the weather or d...
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Rapport isn’t about engaging in trivial small talk with someone once or twice—that might make for an acquaintance, but not necessarily a colleague with whom you share mutual trust and understanding.
Real rapport is about putting in the elbow grease to genuinely connect with the people you ...
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Ask yourself this: Are you asking them out of a sense of obligation and politeness? Or are you asking because you’re genuinely curious about how they’re doing? There’s a big difference—and most of us can usually sense which category someone falls into.
This tactic for building rappo...
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A few telltale signs that you share a good rapport with a colleagues:
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How much do you really know about your coworkers? You might know little quirks like that Arial is their preferred font or that they can’t stand when someone doesn’t clear the cooking time from the break room microwave.
But, much like you, they have entire lives—families, hobbies, e...
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Tighter bonds and relationships: Science says that we all share a basic human motivation to affiliate with other people, and rapport helps us feel closer to the people we work with.
Increased happiness and job satisfaction: Those more tight-knit and comfo...
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You spend a lot of time interacting with your coworkers, but that doesn’t mean you inherently share a tight-knit relationship. In fact, 41% of Americans say their coworkers are just that: coworkers.
That’s understandable when the bulk of your conversations centre on work. You talk about pr...
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Spending a large amount of time with someone literally causes you to pick up their habits. Choose your friends wisely.
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