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Teams365 #2791 - Now What? Integration

8/21/2021

Over the last 3 weeks, I’ve taken a deep dive into Chapter 4 of my latest book, Reconnecting Workspaces. We’ve explored the topic of team culture, and what it’s like to “lead a tapestry of team members”.

What has been your favorite post?

Here are my top 5:

Six Questions on Team Culture – https://www.potentialsrealized.com/teams-365-blog/teams365-2789-6-questions-team-culture

Link to Christina Lee’s Episode with us at the Remote Pathways podcast on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion- https://www.potentialsrealized.com/teams-365-blog/teams365-2782-remote-pathways-podcast-link-christina-lee

Routine Check – Remote Working Rhythms www.potentialsrealized.com/teams-365-blog/teams365-2783-flashback-to-rhythms-routines-and-results

Purposefully Building Teams and Organizations - https://www.potentialsrealized.com/teams-365-blog/teams365-2780-purposefully-building-teams

Building A Vibrant Remote Team Culture https://www.potentialsrealized.com/teams-365-blog/teams365-2776-flashback-friday-building-a-vibrant-remote-team-culture

Share with us your favorite!

Enjoy!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my new book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon.

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Teams365 #2790 - Flashback Friday – Review of the 3-week Series Highlight

8/20/2021

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Teams365 #2789 - 6 Questions: Team Culture

8/19/2021

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Chapter 4 of Reconnecting Workspaces explores the important topic of Team Culture. As I briefly share in my TEDx talk, culture is key in the hybrid space.
Here are the 6 Questions I share on page 69 Reconnecting Workspaces:

SIX QUESTIONS FOR THE TEAM: TEAM CULTURE

1. What are the three words that describe the culture of the team?

2. What do you value?

3. What are the behaviors that are acceptable and not acceptable on the team? (These can often point to values)

4. What are we known for?

5. What are the practices that help define us?

6. What artifacts have we created which are important parts of our identity

Enjoy the conversation!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my new book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon.

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Teams365 #2788 - Except: Engaging Across Generations – Reconnecting Workspaces

8/18/2021

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Today I wanted to share a brief excerpt from Reconnecting Workspaces on Engaging Across Generations. It’s so important to bring all voices into the room, and that’s the focus of today’s topic, an excerpt from pages 78-79

ENGAGING ACROSS GENERATIONS
In our work as virtual facilitators, it is likely that we are engaging across generations, each of which has different aptitudes and comfort levels for technology and virtual learning. Additionally, in any group, you may find that some people are more comfortable than others. As we lead virtual calls, it
is important to consider the experiences of different generations, not to spotlight differences, but to better understand each generation’s comfort level with different types of technology. These shape our preferences for virtual conversations.

Let’s take a closer look at each generation.

Baby Boomers (1946–1964)
While this generation is starting to retire out of the work force, you may still be working with Boomers as Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and mentors, if not as leaders. Keep in mind that Boomers have historically valued teamwork and meetings in ways that others do not. This can lead to preferences on their part for meetings which are not shared by others. The Boomers have seen technology emerge in the workplace from Rolodexes to the first satellite phones, which were often housed in a briefcase.

Gen Xers (1965–1979)
Enshrined in Douglas Coupland’s book Gen X, Xers have a smaller demographic footprint in the workplace than both Boomers and Gen Yers, due to their size. They bring a variance in their technological savvy. As a member of this generation, I explored DOS programming in Grade Six computer science camp and marveled at Atari’s pixelated games. I wrote my high school papers on a computer, although I had to save them on floppy disks. When I led programming and teams of more than a hundred in South America, we were connected by short-range radio, while my communication with the head office was through the fax, or an email that sat in Trinidad overnight. The need to take immediate action led to high degrees of autonomy in my work as a leader. Gen Xers may be comfortable in the virtual realm, as many of us started engaging in “distance learning,” as it was called in the 1990s. Not all of us may be as comfortable in navigating the ever-changing platforms, even though we will enjoy the real-time nature of virtual events and focus—as long as it is during work time.

Millennials (1980s–early 2000s)
The Millennials are the first digital natives. They value group work and collaboration, influenced by an educational process that was often more group oriented than earlier generations. One of the biggest distinctions seen with Millennials is their fluidity around different forms of digital communication.
For many, texting is as common as a verbal conversation. Real-time/just-in-time communication, or instantaneous communication, is often expected. Millennials are positioned to offer an important voice around innovation and creativity.

Gen Z (those born after 2000)
Gen Z are truly the digital natives. They have grown up with smart phones and tablets in their hands, and global connectivity. iPads are part of everyday life in classrooms, and for many are a toy from infancy. Skype and Face Time have replaced phone calls, and video streaming is their norm. YouTube is their TV. Gamification is an extension of their learning process. The ability to connect immediately with people around the world, getting real-time data and seeing inside each other’s households and businesses in a way that no other generation has experienced will no doubt shape what is possible with virtual learning.

Enjoy your reflection!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my new book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon.

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Teams365 #2787 - Brain tip on Synchrony

8/17/2021

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This week’s Brain Tip focuses on the brain tip from Chapter 4 of Reconnecting Workspaces (page 87). Here’s what I wrote on the topic of SYNCHRONY.

As we have explored in this chapter, teams are made up of a collection of individuals. Key to creating a team is helping the team get aligned, as well as synchronized. There is a scientific concept called Synchrony.

Have you seen the Synchrony videos on YouTube, bringing to life the concept of how we synchronize with others?

As Blount and Leroy write, “The synchrony preference captures the degree to which a person tracks the pace of other people’s behavior and is willing to adapt his or her own behavior to match it, in terms of both speeding up and slowing down.”

Our ability to adjust our dials up and down is significant in a team context. Just like being a part of an orchestra, we need to be able to amplify certain facets of ourselves when working with some, and mute the same items when working with others. In a remote team, our ability to read others and get feedback is core to success. Synchrony and emotional intelligence go hand in hand as our social awareness skills and self-awareness play a key part of the feedback loop for adjusting.” (Copyright 2021, Jennifer Britton, Reconnecting Workspaces)

Enjoy the conversation!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk at https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_britton_virtual_remote_and_hybrid_checklist_aug_2021

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my new book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon.

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Teams365 #2786 - In Focus or Metaphor

8/16/2021

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Welcome back to another week! This week I wanted to spotlight our latest episode at the Remote Pathways podcast, our interview with Pastor Clint Byers. Clint shares his experience in producing virtual events, and building community in the virtual space.

It’s an interesting conversation and one you will want to check out. You can listen into Remote Pathways podcast episode 42, Building Hybrid Community and Connections at https://www.remotepathways.com/podcast/ep42-hybrid-community-connections-guest-clint-byars-forward-church-pastor

Enjoy listening!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk at https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_britton_virtual_remote_and_hybrid_checklist_aug_2021

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my new book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon.

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Teams365 #2785 - Week in Review and Inquiry

8/15/2021

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This week we’ve taken a look at many great topics including:

Saturday’s Weekly journaling Prompt of “what will help you thrive”, a topic I recently touched upon in my TED Talk

Friday’s focus on the Flashback to Rhythms, Routines and Results

Thursday’s focus on Remote Pathways podcast Episode #40 – with our guest Christina Lee who speaks about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Wednesday’s focus on Systems Check

Tuesday’s focus on Purposefully Building Teams

Monday’s focus on Consider the visuals

Enjoy your reflection!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my new book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon.

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Teams365 #2784 - Weekly Journaling Prompt 163: What’s going to help you thrive?

8/14/2021

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It’s critical to thrive, not just survive in today’s workspace. This was part of the theme of my recent TED talk. This week, appropriately, I thought it would be interesting to have you not what is going to help you thrive?

Enjoy the weekly reflection question and be sure to take some time to note as well your weekly:

Successes
Challenges
Opportunities
Accomplishments

Enjoy!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk at https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_britton_virtual_remote_and_hybrid_checklist_aug_2021

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my new book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon.

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Teams365 #2783 - Flashback to Rhythms, Routines and Results

8/13/2021

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A few weeks ago, as part of the Reconnecting Workspaces Training, we discussed the importance of routines in establishing rhythms around remote work. Personally, I find my routines are a significant part of my own business results.

Here’s a link to a post I shared earlier this year over at the PlanDoTrack blog: www.plandotrack.com/blog/routine-check-remote-working-rhythms

My Remote Pathways podcast co-host has a great phrase – Remote working rhythms – which I had to borrow for this week’s blog post. This week we pause to check in around your routines with remote work. What are the routines you have established in your work?

Questions to consider:

Do you start work every day at a consistent time?
End work at a consistent time?
Get out (outside or out of the office) to fit some workouts or exercises?
What do you do to expand your remote work rhythms?
Possible remote working routines you could undertake:
Having a fixed start and end time
Participating in a regular co-working session with other professionals (similar to what I did with the 21 for 21 Virtual Co-working Sprints. Returning again in Q2.
Tackling certain tasks at a specific time or day
Earmarking a specific window for a certain task

Routines are important as they start to build out habits. As I have shared in past posts, habits can become automatic in terms of acting like a switch to get things done.

What are the routines or habits you want to undertake?

Enjoy your reflection!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my new book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon.

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Teams365 #2782 - Remote Pathways Podcast Link – Christina Lee

8/12/2021

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Recently at the Remote Pathways podcast we explored the important topic of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with coach and Paradigm360 owner Christina Lee. I hope that you will take a moment to listen in as we sit down to discuss the important topic of diversity, equity and inclusion at:

You will find the link to this Remote Pathways episode at:
https://www.remotepathways.com/podcast/ep40-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-guest-christina-lee-ceo-for-paradigm-360-coach-training-llc

Enjoy your listening!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk at https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_britton_virtual_remote_and_hybrid_checklist_aug_2021

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my new book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon.

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Teams365 #2791 - Now What? Integration

Teams365 #2790 - Flashback Friday – Review of the 3-week Series Highlight

Teams365 #2789 - 6 Questions: Team Culture

Teams365 #2788 - Except: Engaging Across Generations – Reconnecting Workspaces

Teams365 #2787 - Brain tip on Synchrony

Teams365 #2786 - In Focus or Metaphor

Teams365 #2785 - Week in Review and Inquiry

Teams365 #2784 - Weekly Journaling Prompt 163: What’s going to help you thrive?

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