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Teams365 #2890 - Week In Review

11/28/2021

This week we went and wrapped up Chapter 9 of Reconnecting Workspaces https://www.amazon.com/Reconnecting-Workspaces-Pathways-Thrive-Virtual/dp/0993791557

I hope that you enjoyed it and took some valuable tips away.

Here is what we explored:

Saturday’s What Now and Highlight of some of the key ideas
Friday’s Flashback to 10 Year end Questions
Thursday’s Six Questions around One-on-ones and goals
Wednesday’s 90-Day Guide for Success
Tuesday’s Brain tip around Hebb’s Law and Habits
Monday’s focus on leadership practice- rewards and recognition

Have a great rest of your weekend!
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
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.

Teams365 #2889 - Now What? Week 9 in Wrap Up

11/27/2021

Over the last three weeks we have taken a deep dive into the Leadership Practices chapter of Reconnecting Workspaces. We have explored topics including

The Is/Is Not Team Tool – (Day 5 or November 13, 2021) – This is one of the favorite team tools for those working on team coaching
The Principle of Empowerment
The Remote Working Myth that “It’s all about the leader”
The Brain Tip of how new neural pathways (and therefore learning) is created via the “wiring and firing” of synapses.

What has been your favorite part of the last three weeks of focus on Chapter 9 of Reconnecting Workspaces? What’s been valuable for you?

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

Check out my TEDx talk
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.

Teams365 #2888 - Flashback Friday: 10 Questions for Year-End Stocktaking

11/26/2021

Back at the end of 2021, I shared the following ten questions to use at year-end to take stock of how things are going. Here they are again:

Here are ten questions to support you in taking a look back at the last year:
1. What's been your biggest success this year?
2. What are you most proud of accomplishing? OR What were your greatest results?
3 What habits have most supported you this year?
4. What three adjectives sum up the year for you?
5. What were key relationships instrumental to your success and experience this year?
6. What has been your biggest, and most important, learning this year?
7. If you were to give this year a book title, what would it be?
8. What do you want to make sure you keep doing in the new year? What do you want to stop doing?
9. What do you want to acknowledge yourself for?
10. What and how will you celebrate the successes of the year? With whom?

I hope that you enjoy the conversations!
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
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.

Teams365 #2887 - Six Questions for One-On-Ones Around Goals

11/25/2021

One-on-one conversations are one of the most important leadership activities in terms of building connection, trust, and safety, for enhanced relationships and results. These are often what moves the needle with a team.
In chapter 9 I share these six questions which you will find useful as you undertake your one-on-one conversations:

What are our top three to five goals this month?
Are the goals SMART-E? (What do you notice about how they are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely, Exciting?)
What doe success look like for each major goal? Do we all share the same vision of success?
What does each one of us do to contribute to the achievement of the goal?
What are the things that could get in the way, or derail, the goal? What will help, or enable, the goal?
What are the measures we will use to know that we have reached the goal?

Enjoy your conversations and let us know which of the questions had impact!
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
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.

Teams365 #2886 -The 90-Day Guide for Success in Focus

11/24/2021

On October 1st 2021 I released the 90-Day Guide for Success. This is an onboarding and re-boarding guide, supporting others through the critical phase of a 90-day process. I’ve been having a lot of fun taking a group of individuals through it over the last five weeks, every morning from 730 – 8 am ET. I hope that you will join us for an upcoming conversation, OR pick up a copy of the book. You can get a copy of the book at Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/90-Day-Guide-Success-Pathways-Virtual/dp/0993791573/

The book explores key areas including:

Effective delegation
Teamwork practices
Getting organized
Building Trust
Resilience and Change
Technology Needs
Navigating Key Relationships
Work Styles
Managing Conflict

It is an ideal resource to pick up for each of your team members. Teams may want to follow along every day or a 90-day period.

Check out some of the 90-Day Guide calls on my YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKy4XVcic6o&list=PLBrNWrf7D5rAmchmZY1tzBFjnr8ApEN9T

Enjoy the conversations!
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
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.

Teams365 #2885 - Brain tip

11/23/2021

In the field of neuroscience it’s often said that when things are repeatedly done, new habits are formed. You may have also heard Hebb’s Law, which states, “Things that wire together, fire together.” When we undertake an action, we create new neural pathways in the brain. Each time we do this, we create another groove in that pathway.

As one of my cognitive psychology professors shared years ago, habit formation is like a track in the brain. Each time we do something the track in our brain gets more and more pronounced. As we repeat it, that connection becomes stronger and stronger. This is a plus for both positive and negative pathways. As I wrote in Coaching Business Builder, “Habits are things that we do consistently and often subconsciously. Habits become automatic ways of doing things, often without much thought. Habits can be in service to our work, and also can get in the way of our success.”

In the virtual and remote space, habits are an important part of getting things done. As we develop habits, we create more “room” for getting things done because the decision-making part of our brain doesn’t have to work so hard.

Habits require three things to create new neural pathways: attention, focus, and reinforcement. What can you do to create new pathways? What are the things you want to reinforce? What can you do to create new patterns and habits around that?

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

Check out my TEDx talk
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

Teams365 #2884 - Leadership Practice- rewards and recognition

11/22/2021

Today's post bringing us to the important area of rewards and recognition. Motivation and what helps our team members do their best work is also tied into this important area. When was the last time to rewarded or recognized your team members for a job well done?

I found a great blog post entitled 25 Statistics on Employee Recognition from Globoforce.com. Take a look at it here. Here are a few interesting figures to keep in mind which they mention:
41% of companies that use peer-to-peer recognition have seen marked positive increases in customer satisfaction. (SHRM/Globoforce Employee Recognition Survey, 2012)

In these environments, [where opportunity and well-being are part of the culture) strong manager performance in recognizing employee performance increases engagement by almost 60%. (Towers Watson, Turbocharging Employee Engagement: The Power of Recognition From Managers, 2009)

Praise and commendation from managers was rated the top motivator for performance, beating out other noncash and financial incentives, by a majority of workers (67%) (McKinsey Motivating People, Getting Beyond Money, 2009)

In my work with leaders and their teams our attention often turns to this topic area of rewards and recognition. It is usually an area where "one size does not fit all". Several questions you will want to consider in this area are:

1. What does each team member value in terms of being rewarded? Is it time off, a promotion, being assigned a special project?
2. What does each team member value in being recognized? Is it public praise? An email acknowledgement? A gift card?
3. Consider what your team members are motivated by. This will help you consider appropriate rewards and recognition for each person.
4. Check out your assumptions around rewards and recognition - we are not always right!
5. What types of rewards and recognition are appropriate in our organizational culture?

Take a look at these other blog posts from the web which may be of interest to you:

Warren Tanner's post at the SoapboxHR blog on Engaging and Motivating Employees: Rewards Vs. Recognition. Read it here

Roy Saunderson's article on Top 10 Differences Between Rewards and Recognition. Read it here.

Have a great start to your week,
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
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.

Teams365 #2883 - Week in Review

11/21/2021

Wow! Another week done. Here’s where we went this week, just in case you missed one:

Monday November 15th – A fun cartoon from Reconnecting Workspaces on the evolution of the workspace.

Tuesday November 16th – Productivity Tip – and links to the PlanDoTrack workbook planner. Pick up your copy today! https://www.amazon.com/Reconnecting-Workspaces-Pathways-Thrive-Virtual/dp/0993791557

Wednesday November 17th – What the Research Says from Chapter 9 of Reconnecting Workspaces https://www.amazon.com/Reconnecting-Workspaces-Pathways-Thrive-Virtual/dp/0993791557

Thursday November 18th – Some of my favorite Remote Pathways podcasts from the last few months

Friday’s Flashback to a key year-end post – 10 Things to Do with Your Team Before Year-end

Saturday’s Weekly Journaling Prompt - What Do You Need to Let Go Of?

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
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
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.

Teams365 #2882 - Weekly Journaling Prompt 174– What Do You Need To Let Go Of?

11/20/2021

This week’s Weekly Journaling Prompt is Where do you need to let go of something? With the holidays just around the corner, it can feel like there’s so much to do and not enough time. What can you say NO to? What activities really doesn’t bring you joy, or satisfaction, and can be retired (at least for the holidays)?

Enjoy the reflection and the weekend!
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
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.

Teams365 #2881 - Flashback Friday: 10 Year-End Activities With Your Team

11/19/2021

The end of the year will be here before we know it! Today we are going to take a look back at one of my favorite year end posts – 10 Year-end activities with your team. Here it is!

Today's post gets you to think further about year end activities and possible retreat ideas for your team. While not everyone will be able to take a day away from the office, even spreading some of these activities over a couple of weeks, or the next month or two, gets you thinking about and in dialogue about important issues.

Here are ten things to be sparking focus and conversation around with your team:

1. Creating a Year in Summary - Using photos or words how would you describe the highlights of the last year
2. Strengths based work using either StrengthsFinder or VIA Strengths
3. Goal setting for the new year - overall goals, quarterly goals, monthly goals. Looking at how individual, team and organizational goals overlap
4. Creating an action plan for the new year
5. Creating a Vision for the new year
6. Vision Modelling - using tin foil, plasticine or, paper mache coming up with a model for your vision that you as a team can look at regularly
7. Coming up with a theme for the year
8. Taking time to Acknowledge each other
9. Celebrating your successes from the year - a lunch out (or in) or a night out bowling or playing ping pong (yes teams can have fun together!)
10. Setting an Intention for the year

What other activities might you undertake to wrap up the year together?

Have a great weekend,
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
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.