Come ready to learn

• Twist a “light topic” with a serious tone: use what you already know to ask more personal questions or go deeper into topics.
• Play it straight: admit that you don’t like to chit-chat, and have a few discussion topics or questions ready to toss out.
• Issue an i...

1. Approaching for the first time someone you don’t know: focus on them, ask about them and approach humbly.
2. Deciding when to end a conversation: you can end the conversation by excusing yourself and saying you have something that needs to be attended to.
3. Awkwar...

With a hybrid team, interactions and relationships across cultures -- even at a significant distance -- is important because it can spur your own creativity, and in order to do so team members must have a meaningful relationship with each other.

They can try the exercise of 'wordles...