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TEAMS365 #2558 – Year End Stock Taking

12/31/2020

2020 has been a year of many things unexpected. It’s been an opportunity to change and grow and involved tons of learning for everyone who had to pivot or double down on their work. As we go to wrap up the year, I want to wish you and your loved ones all the best for a new year!

Here are several questions I hope you will find useful as you go to undertake your year end stock taking:

1. What's been your biggest success for you this year?
2. What are you most proud of accomplishing?
3. What were your greatest results?
4. What habits have you cultivated?
5. What routines ground you?
6. What changes do you want to make as you step into the new year?
7. What three adjectives sum up the year for you?
8. What were key relationships instrumental to your success and experience this year?
9. What has been your biggest, and most important, learning this year?
10. Looking ahead, what are your key goals? What will wild success look like?
11. What do you want to make sure you keep doing in the new year? What do you want to stop doing?
12. What do you want to acknowledge yourself for?
13. What and how will you celebrate the successes of this year?

See you in 2021!
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 #2557 – The Year in Review – Key Themes for 2020 at the Teams365 Blog

12/30/2020

As we go to wrap up the year, I wanted to take a look back at the many different focus areas here at the blog during 2020. Some of you may know that this blog started as an experiment for me back on January 1st, 2014. I wanted to see what would happen if I dedicated time every day to writing. More than 2500 blog posts later, and several other books which were borne through this writing, the Teams365 blog continues to go strong.

As someone who has written about remote work for many years, 2020 brought it in, in volume. If you didn’t take a look at yesterday’s post around the Top 10 podcast episodes from the Remote Pathways for 2020, please take a look.

Some of the key themes we touched on this year included:

Team Effectiveness in the Remote Space
Virtual Productivity
Leading in Disruption
Leadership
Standing Out Virtually in the Remote Space
Remote Work Foundations
Team Essentials

I also continued with the regular weekly series as well, including:

Monday’s Effective Virtual Conversations tips AND the more recent Stand Out Virtually Ideas
Thursday’s Team Building Tips – Questions to incorporate into your work
Friday’s Flashback – dipping into more than 52 past posts
Saturday’s Weekly Journaling Prompts – what have you enjoyed about these?

I look forward to continuing to provide blogs and posts into 2021!

With best wishes,
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 #2556 – Top 10 Remote Pathways Podcast Episodes for 2020

12/29/2020

One of my favorite creative projects this past 18 months has been the creation and launch of the Remote Pathways podcast. It’s been warmly embraced by listeners globally. The Remote Pathways Podcast explores the PEOPLE, PLACES and PROCESSES to REMOTE WORK.

I thought it would be interesting to share with you our top 10 episodes for 2020. Here’s what we, and our listeners, LOVED listening to:

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 #2555 – Top Effective Virtual Conversations Posts of This Year

12/28/2020

This year I saw my 2017 book, Effective Virtual Conversations, 10 x in terms of the sales. The world literally went virtual overnight back in March (or even earlier).

As we roll down the year, I thought it would be useful to highlight 5 of my favorite Effective Virtual Conversations posts for the year:

From February EVC Tip #174 – Micro-meetings. How many meetings did you attend this year? What would have made them better? Shorter?
From this Summer – The Messy Middle – EVC Tip #160
Ways to Keep Your Virtual Meetings in the Flow
Effective Virtual Conversations – Stories – EVC Tip #167
And a revisit to this 2017 video on the Habits of Effective Virtual Facilitators

All the best!
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 #2554 – Weekly Review

12/27/2020

This week we took a walk down memory lane and looked at the following:

It’s been a pleasure to continue bringing you blog posts about remote work and effective virtual conversations. I look forward to continuing to serve you!

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 #2553 – Weekly Journaling Prompt 134

12/26/2020

As we go to wrap up the last Weekly Journaling Prompt of 2020, you are invited to consider the prompt “This year I….”.

What are the things you:

Were proud of?
Accomplished?
Learned?
Beat or Banished?
Embraced?
Focused on?
Were grateful for?

Enjoy your weekend reflections and it’s been a pleasure to bring you these Weekly Journaling Prompts for 2020!

All the best,
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 #2552 – Happy Holidays!

12/25/2020

Wishing you and your loved ones a very wonderful holiday season!

Thank you for joining us throughout the year for the focus on all things virtual and remote leadership, teamwork and conversations.

We look forward to continuing to serve as a resource for you.

Enjoy your day!
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 #2551 – Taking a Pause for Gratitude – Team Building Tip 275

12/24/2020

As we step into the next few days, I hope that you will have a chance to pause and take a few minutes to wrap up the year with your team. What have you been grateful for? What are the habits you have developed? What are the achievements you have had? What has been your key learning this year?

Enjoy the conversation and downtime as we move into the last week of the year!

Best,
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 #2550 – 10 Posts You Will Want to Check Out from 2020 on Remote Teams and Leadership

12/23/2020

Yesterday I spotlighted posts on effective virtual conversations. Today I wanted to share ten posts from 2020 about remote work, teams and leadership. These were definitely popular posts from 2020:

Check out these three articles I published over on Thrive Global as well:

What are you going to continue to focus on as you move forward with your work?

Best,
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 #2549 – Posts You Will Want to Check Out From 2020 on Virtual Conversations

12/22/2020

Little did I know how significant remote work and virtual conversations would feature this time last year when I set my stake in the ground around remote work. With more than three billion people moving to Work From Home arrangements, and social distancing becoming the norm, the need to create engaging virtual conversations became an essential skill set.

As someone who has written on the topics of virtual conversations and remote work for many years now, it was wonderful to be featured in several publications and referred to by others.

Here are some of my favorite posts from 2020 around virtual conversations:

Teams365 #2339: Ways to Keep your Virtual Meeting in the Flow. Read it here.

Teams365 Effective Virtual Conversations Tip #148: What’s Going to Keep It Memorable? – Read it here.

Teams365 #2291: Virtual Meetings – Keeping them on Track – Read it here.

Teams365 #2170 – Effective Virtual Conversation Tip #123 – Remote Teams: Check it out here.

Teams365 #2023: Keeping It Simple: Read it here.

Teams365 #1225 - Adjusting our Listening in the Virtual Realm - Check it out here.

Teams365 #1609 - Virtual Facilitation Pitfall #9 - Read it here.

Teams #1322: Effective Virtual Conversations Tip 8 - #1322 - Read it here.

Plus these articles I wrote which can be found at Thrive Global:

Making Your Next Virtual Meetings and Calls Memorable - Read it here.

Keeping Your Virtual Meetings on Track: Read it here.

What were your favorite posts here at the Teams365 blog this year?

With best wishes,
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