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Teams365 #2709 - Month in Review and Planning for June’s focus on Reconnecting Workspaces

5/31/2021

Well, that’s a wrap! That’s it for the month of May. What did you get accomplished this month? What were your major accomplishments?

I hope that you will take a few minutes to focus on what’s important for you right now. Be sure to schedule a few minutes for planning if you have not yet done so.
Here are some questions to consider as you move forward with your planning:

As you reflect on May, what have been your successes and accomplishments?
As you reflect on the summer, what have been your successes and accomplishments?
What are you most proud of?
What successes this month do you want to duplicate?
What top 3 learning have you head that you want to carry forward?
What key relationships have helped you so far this year? Which ones need more attention?
What has helped your successes?
What has hindered or gotten in the way?
What does your team need to be acknowledged for?

As you look to June, consider these questions:
What are your key priorities for June?
What are the key goals?
What are the major priorities?
What will you need to place attention on?
What changes do you want to make in June?
What habits do you want to leverage?
When will you check in to explore your progress, and make changes?
What resources do you want to tap into?
Who can help you be successful this month?

Enjoy your conversation!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time™ in the Remote Space
Contact us to discuss leadership, coaching or performance needs for your and your team
Phone: (416)996-8326

Teams365 #2708 - Week in Review

5/30/2021

What a week! Welcome back to another Sunday Week in Review. We’ve had a great set of posts this last week of May 2021. Here’s what we covered this week:

Monday May 24 – Remote Pathways Podcast Episode #37- Hybrid Work

Tuesday May 25– Reconnecting Workspaces Tip

Wednesday May 26 – Quotes around connection

Thursday May 27 – Team Building Tip #293 – What’s going to get us connected?

Friday May 28 – Flashback Friday – Connecting to Context

Saturday May 29 – Weekly Journaling Prompt #153: Flow means…

Enjoy your reflection!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time™ in the Remote Space
Contact us to discuss leadership, coaching or performance needs for your and your team
Phone: (416)996-8326

Teams365 #2707 - Weekly Journaling Prompt #153 – Flow means…

5/29/2021

This week’s Weekly Journaling Prompt brings us to the prompt of FLOW MEANS.

Flow is an important psychological state for well-being. As I shared back in Teams365 2434 in Weekly Journaling Prompt #114: https://www.potentialsrealized.com/teams-365-blog/teams365-2434-weekly-journaling-prompt-114

When we are able to tap into the river of excitement that can course through our body, and soul, it’s likely that we are tapping into that magical place called FLOW. At moments of flow, time takes on new meaning. Things may feel magical. And it’s usually a signal that we are doing the things we are MEANT to.

What are you noticing about FLOW moments?

What are you noticing about what you are truly excited about?

What do you need to say YES to in order to cultivate more of that?

What do you need to say NO to in order to create more space for the flow?

As we wrap up today’s post, here’s a quote about FLOW from the author himself:

“To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Enjoy your reflection,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time™ in the Remote Space
Contact us to discuss leadership, coaching or performance needs for your and your team
Phone: (416)996-8326

Teams365 #2706 - Flashback Friday – Connecting to Context

5/28/2021

Few weeks ago, I shared the Six Layers of Connection in Virtual Calls. One of the six layers of connection we are navigating in the remote space and can become more intentional around is that of connecting people with their context.

A challenge with remote calls is that each person on a call will be surrounded by a different context. What do others need to know if you are working together? What discussions are important to have?

In contrast, when we are facilitating a group discussion where everyone’s context is different, what are we doing to help people connect in with their context, or what’s off the screen. So much learning can be “left” on the screen, rather than transferring back to our everyday work.

Consider these five ways to transfer your learning “beyond the screen”

Leave a pause for people to think about application, make notes, schedule things in
Consider the “arc of learning” where learning takes place over multiple touchpoints. When are you meeting again? Can you build in time to inquire about how people have used their learning and put knowledge into practice?
Are you creating peer accountability partners so that they can revisit the learning and talk about application?
Are you following up with an assignment or outreach for people to comment on?
Is there a journaling process?

Moving our learning beyond the screen into integration and changes to our behavior is key. What’s important to note for moving the learning forward?

Enjoy your conversations,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time™ in the Remote Space
Contact us to discuss leadership, coaching or performance needs for your and your team
Phone: (416)996-8326

Teams365 #2705 - Team Building Tip #293 – What are we aiming for?

5/27/2021

Welcome back to Team Building Tip #293 – What are we aiming for?

Working in the virtual, remote and hybrid world requires that we take time regularly to check in for alignment. Over time it’s easy for each one of us to find ourselves deviating onto our own work pathway. Today’s question asks, “What are we aiming for?”. What are the things we are focusing on? What are we aiming for as a team?

Get specific.

Get granular.

Get focused on what’s most important.

Enjoy the conversation!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time™ in the Remote Space
Contact us to discuss leadership, coaching or performance needs for your and your team
Phone: (416)996-8326

Teams365 #2704 - Quotes around connection

5/26/2021

This week we are focusing on quotes around connection. Connection is essential in the remote space. Here is a handful of great quotes to get your thinking moving. I will be diving into this with my next book which will be released in the next few weeks. Check it out here - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0993791557

The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food. Dean Ornish

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.” ― Herman Melville

“Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.”
― Brené Brown

"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey-castle sequence of bumpings-into and tumblings-apart."
— Salman Rushdie (The Ground Beneath Her Feet)

"Go for a walk outdoors. Reconnect with the feeling of the wind blowing through your hair. Listen to the birds that live in a tree in your yard. Watch the sunset. Take time to smell the flowers that bloom in the park during the summer. The natural world is just as natural as it ever was, except there's less of it than there was twenty-five years ago - and most of us don't make a point of enjoying it often enough."
— Skye Alexander (The Modern Guide to Witchcraft: Your Complete Guide to Witches, Covens, and Spells)

Connecting to another is one of the most important things in the world and you can keep expanding that connection - one person, a family, a community, a country, a society, a culture. - Eric Fischl

The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection. -Robin S. Sharma

Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer.

Enjoy your reflections!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time™ in the Remote Space
Contact us to discuss leadership, coaching or performance needs for your and your team
Phone: (416)996-8326

Teams365 #2703 - Hybrid Team Get Togethers

5/25/2021

As we move into what may be more of a hybrid workspace, intentionally building time for the entire team to come together is absolutely critical. Whether it’s scheduling an all-team meeting face-to-face quarterly or annually, helping the team come together frequently helps to keep people connected, and keep the team moving with each other.

Intentionality is a critical part of the hybrid working experience, intentionally creating practices which involve reaching out, and ensuring inclusivity of all team members, especially if they are not together.

Hybrid team get togethers – onsites or offsites – can focus on the two essential areas – building relationships and results – which may include a focus on:

Planning

Strategic Work

Get to Know You

Informal team time (to supplement water cooler time and spontaneity)

Real-time work sessions

Patterns and processes for work

While these sessions can often be facilitated by the team, it can also be useful to tap into skills of an external facilitator, who can free up all team members and also provide a neutral eye to help the team understand their internal dynamics. Reach out to us to learn more about the supports we offer.

What are the elements you want to focus on?
Enjoy your reflections!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time™ in the Remote Space
Contact us to discuss leadership, coaching or performance needs for your and your team
Phone: (416)996-8326

Teams365 #2702 - Remote Pathways Podcast Episode #37 - Hybrid Work

5/24/2021

It’s Monday which means that it’s time to take a look at what’s happening in the remote space, specifically at the Remote Pathways podcast. Last week we held our monthly planning session which focused on summer planning for the year. What are your plans?

In our next Remote Pathways podcast episode, Episode 37, we explore the topic of hybrid work. Given that many organizations will be moving to this way of working in the near future, with some organizations on-site and others offsite.
Here’s what we are going to be exploring:

Jennifer and Michelle consider what hybrid work is and the various ways it's popping up in workplaces around the world. This is THE conversation companies are having and it's important that we are thinking through the complexities of it all.

In this episode we explore:

What is hybrid and is it new?
The unique stretch points for teams
Physical workplace vs. virtual workspace
How do we ensure people feel connected and included?
What's happening to meetings and watercooler conversations
Everyone's voice and perspective is important
Leadership will require different styles
Now is the time to experiment

I want to invite you to head on over and check out our 37th episode of the Remote Pathways podcast – https://www.remotepathways.com/podcast.html.

Enjoy!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time™ in the Remote Space
Contact us to discuss leadership, coaching or performance needs for your and your team
Phone: (416)996-8326

Teams365 #2701 - Week in Review

5/23/2021

Welcome back to another week in review. This week at the Teams365 blog we explored:

Monday May 17 – Remote Pathways Podcast Episode on Asynchronous Conversation

Tuesday May 18 – Reconnecting Workspaces Tip

Wednesday May 19 – Quotes around renewal

Thursday May 20 – Team Building Tip #292 – What is not in focus right now?

Friday May 21 – Flashback Friday – Navigating Conflict in Teams

Saturday May 22 – Weekly Journaling Prompt #152 – What do you want to savor?

Enjoy your reflections!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time™ in the Remote Space
Contact us to discuss leadership, coaching or performance needs for your and your team
Phone: (416)996-8326

Teams365 #2700 - Weekly Journaling Prompt 152- “I want to savor….”

5/22/2021

This week’s Weekly Journaling Prompt #152 is “I want to savor….” What are the things you want to savor? What do you want to really enjoy?

The last year has been challenging for everyone. What do you want to make sure you build in time for?

Enjoy your reflections!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time™ in the Remote Space
Contact us to discuss leadership, coaching or performance needs for your and your team
Phone: (416)996-8326