Linked: Helping Your People Managers Manage a Hybrid Workplace
The three challenges in this quote exist in every type of work environment. In-office, hybrid, or totally remote, every team needs clarity, communication, and connection.
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Linked: The Rise of the 9 p.m. Work Hour
One of the bigger management issues surrounding the remote work model is how and when to communicate. I’m an advocate of more communication, always. I’m a huge advocate of a lot more communication with a remote team.
But, we also have to think about the best way to work together. There are lots, and lots, of meetings that are designed to create better communication but aren’t necessary. Most of them are recurring meetings that no one ever cancels, even when there’s nothing urgent to discuss. Just because we’ve always had this meeting, and we always will.
That’s not a good reason to meet. At the end of the day, if your check-ins or project status meetings are nothing more than a “here’s where we are this week,” we might consider whether it makes more sense for people to send an email instead. Or even a Teams/Slack chat? It’s the same information, but no one has to plan their day around it.
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Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 20, 2022
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Thinking About Employees’ Lives and Ambitions Outside of Work Can Improve Law Firm Culture
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From The Water Cooler to the DMs – Tips and Tricks for Efficiently Reviewing Chat Communications
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Don’t Click on That QR Code Until You’ve Read the FBI’s Warning!
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Businesses Must Contemplate Employees’ Use of Messaging Apps on Personal Devices
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A Majority Of Surveyed Companies Were Hit By Ransomware Attacks In 2021—And Paid Ransom Demands
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Linked: How to Toot Your Own Horn At Work
have often been on record as saying that leading a remote team requires over-communication. You simply cannot assume information is being shared or understood if you don’t actively communicate it yourself.
The same goes for tooting your own horn. You simply cannot assume that people you haven’t communicated with directly about your contributions are going to know about them. We like to think that compliments and acknowledgments go beyond the immediate conversations we are having but we can’t assume that.
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Linked: Five Skills That Help You Lead Remotely
I like all of Kevin’s 5 skills, but this one to me is paramount because when I’ve been part of a remote team, every single failure ultimately came back to this: “Be a flexible communicator Certainly, leaders must be good communicators. But when your team is spread hither and yon, you must be proficient and…
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Uncertainty Causes People to Do Strange Things
The lesson I took away from this article reminds me how important communication is to any relationship. More specifically, though, it made me think of the workplace. In the wake of San Francisco’s devastating 1906 earthquake, as survivors sifted through rubble and fires raged, the city’s men and women responded to the chaos in an unusual way:…
