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Teams365 #2967 - Week In Review

2/13/2022

This week we covered a variety of posts related to micro-learning and sprints. If you missed, them, be sure to check out:

Yesterday’s Focus in Chapter 11 Reconnecting Workspaces

Friday’s Weekly Journaling Prompt “What Learning Do You Want To Undertake?”

Thursday’s Reconnecting Workspaces Excerpt- Are you ready to Sprint?

Wednesday’s post around Micro-learning

Tuesday’s post around Brain Tip: Priming

Monday’s The Heart of Coaching Giveaway

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
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Teams365 #2964 - Are you ready to Sprint? Reconnecting Workspaces Excerpt

2/10/2022

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Our work in the virtual, remote and hybrid space has afforded us a lot of time to experiment. In today’s blog post we are going to explore Sprints. Here’s what I wrote in Reconnecting Workspaces:

“Sprints are short bursts to get work done virtually. These might run for minutes, hours, or days. My favorite program in this category is the 21 for 21 Virtual Co-working Sprints, daily 21-minute co-working sessions for a 21-day period of time where people get things done.

** (This year in 2022 I have brought back the 22 for 22, providing us with an additional 22 minutes to get important activities done! – Check them out at https://www.standoutvirtually.com

Sprints are a fixed period of time during which a project must be completed. Emerging out of the Agile landscape, sprints can now be found in many industries. They are ideal for experimentation, getting things done, and prototyping.

As Jake Knapp writes in his book Sprint, “Before the sprint begins, you’ll need to have the right challenge and the right team. You’ll also need time and space to conduct your sprint.”

Whether you are a marketing team or a solopreneur, we can all benefit from the deep focus created in a sprint series.

Ideas for your own team sprint:
• Development of a new special project: for example, building out and prototyping a new product or service
• Completion of projects: for example, writing a report or a book, creating a video, organizing your office

Having completed multiple sprint series as part of the 21 for 21 Virtual Co-working Sprint series, I have continued to hear how powerful it is for participants to get things done in an uninterrupted time block. Many times we premise it on Parkinson’s Rule, that tasks expand to the amount of time we give them. For example, if I give myself four weeks to get something completed, it likely will take four weeks. If I give myself five days, I can likely get it completed in that time window.

Leaders might consider building out a development project for your team.

A marketing team might focus on the development of different ideas/pitches for a different product which you can then vote on and move forward with.

How else might you use a sprint?

(Excerpt from Reconnecting Workspaces – link to AMAZON, © Jennifer Britton, 2021, pages 213-214)

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

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 #2963 - Micro-Learning in Focus: Excerpt: Reconnecting Workspaces

2/9/2022

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Microlearning, or “short bites of training,” can be a great supplement to other types of learning, in particular, a way to sustain or expand the learning to make it stickier. We are operating in a context where learning has significantly changed. With microlearning being shorter bites of learning (typically anywhere from three to ten minutes), there are several benefits:

Just-in-time consumption. Rather than having to block off one day for training, microlearning can be consumed in one sitting.

Opportunity or immediate application. Depending on design, microlearning can be a prompt for immediate application and action.

Expands the training time, to allow for more absorption. Consider the ROCK Learning Model of AGES162 (Attention, Generation, Emotion, and Spacing), where S stands for spacing or sequencing. Microlearning allows for an expanded series of touchpoints which may support enhanced retention one week to one year later.

Bite size pieces which are easier to digest. Shorter is often better. Continue to think about things in threes: what are the three main points you want to cover in the process?

Seven Microlearning Possibilities
What’s possible for you in your work? Consider these seven different ways microlearning is positioned:

1. Group coaching support. Many times, group members have content needs which are not appropriate to bring into the mainstream coaching process. Are there some microlearning opportunities to enhance content needs which you or a content expert could provide?

2. Short emails or newsletter prompts. Whether it’s in text or video, short email prompts can keep things visible and alive. My 90-Day BizSuccess program included three-times-a-week questions or quotes which were sent out to group members as a way to keep the learning—and action—alive!

3. Breaking down longer training programs into three- to ten-minute bites which people can take on a daily or weekly basis. What are the mini-modules you could create?

4. Videos to reinforce learning in the classroom. For example, if you are meeting with a leadership cohort regularly, how could videos sent to learners or available on an LMS (learning management system), support learning reinforcement and application?

5. Virtual work sprints. What could get done in the moment, rather than waiting for longer windows of time to get it done?

6. Consider developing a stand-alone video series for some of the work you want to promote. This could be a series of short three- to five-minute videos on a topic you are passionate about.

7. Repurpose content. Content can be repurposed. What can you repurpose into a new output? If you have a one-pager, could it become a short demo video? If you have an article, could it become a checklist?

Activity:
• Take 10 minutes to brainstorm or Mind Map your ideas around microlearning.
• As you look at your ideas, what would have the greatest impact?
• What would be the easiest to implement?
• When you are ready, turn to the monthly template which will help you sequence and design your microlearning bites!

(Excerpt: Reconnecting Workspaces, pages 209 - 210 © Jennifer Britton, 2021. All Rights Reserved

Enjoy the 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

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 #2960 - Week in Review and Inquiry

2/6/2022

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This week we’ve explored a number of key elements of chapter 11 of Reconnecting Workspaces, including key parts of the Talent Management cycle. We explored:

Saturday – The weekly icon of the Iceberg. Check out the 90-Day Guide for Success daily focus areas in weeks 6 and 8 of the series. Pick up a copy of the 90-Day Guide for Success at Amazon

Friday – The Flashback post from February 4th 2018 on navigating Complexity and Uncertainty

Thursday – a look back at four of our past Remote Pathways podcast episodes

Wednesday – Remote Productivity Tips from PlanDoTrack and six of the favorite tools PDT facilitators and leaders love!

Tuesday – What is the talent management cycle (Excerpt from Reconnecting Workspaces

Monday’s post on month-end reflections and monthly planning post

I hope that you enjoyed this week’s posts and that it has inspired you to think about how you are supporting others to do their best work and/or how you are boosting your planning processes!

Want to expand your focus on the topics this week:

Pick up a copy of Reconnecting Workspaces at Amazon

For ICONS check out the 90-Day Guide For Success on Amazon

OR pick up a copy of the PlanDoTrack Workbook and Planner for Virtual, Remote and Hybrid Professionals at our Potentials Realized Store (PDF Version).

Have a great 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

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 #2959 - Icons

2/5/2022

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Icons are a powerful tool for connection across groups which may speak different languages, as well as being a powerful metaphor, crystalizing ideas into a focused point.

My most recent book, the 90-Day Guide for Success includes a different image a day. The book is geared to support professionals who are onboarding or reboarding in the remote, or hybrid space. It is however a book that is relevant to anyone working anywhere.

This week we are starting a new series on ICONS, and I’ll be selecting a different icon from a different day of the 90-Day Guide.

Here’s the first icon - The Iceberg. What’s above and below the waterline for you?

Throughout Reconnecting Workspaces and the 90-Day Guide for Success I share more about the Iceberg model of coaching I have been using with teams and groups for many years.

In teamwork we see what’s above the waterline of work. We see behaviors and actions. In the remote space these may be less visible.

Our behaviors and actions are shaped by the elements below the waterline of work – values, beliefs, mindsets, and perspectives.
What do you notice about how these elements shape what you do, how you do it and how you prioritize things?

Consider these questions:
Values:
What are the values you are guided by?
Are these values individual or collective?

Perspectives:
What perspectives are you standing in?

Mindsets:
• What mindsets are you embracing?
• Is it an open mindset?
• Where might you be getting stuck in what Carol Dweck refers to as closed mindset?

The richness of remote teamwork is in finding our collective approaches and also noticing what we each might bring as different?

Stay tuned for future weekly editions of the ICON set which come from the Reconnecting Workspaces Dice Set.

If you have a copy of the 90-Day Guide for Success, check out the ICEBERG Icon elements on days. Pick up a copy of the 90-Day Guide for Success at Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/90-Day-Guide-Success-Pathways-Virtual/dp/0993791573

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
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 #2958 - Flashback – When Things are Complex, and Uncertain

2/4/2022

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Welcome back to another Friday Flashback. This week I am reaching back to what I wrote four years ago on February 4th, 2018. I shared one of my favorite quotes about how collaboration is needed when things are complex and uncertain. Little did I know about how the pandemic would invite all of us to consider how to work more effectively in environments where are ambiguous, complex and uncertain.

As you read through what I shared in 2018 consider how relevant this is for you now. Think about how your work, and need for collaboration has shifted.

Looking forward to continued conversation with you!

Now over to that 2018 post: = https://www.potentialsrealized.com/teams-365-blog/february-24th-2018

Today's quote comes from me - "When it's uncertain, complex and changing, collaboration is needed".

One of the themes I work with teams and leaders around is the ability to become more fluid in approaches to help them with the ongoing complexity and change of their work. What once was more isolated to the type of work I did with the UN - ongoing change, ambiguity, ever changing situations, is now becoming much more common-place to everyone in the work force. It requires a different way of working, and a culture shift, for many organizations. This is not easy, nor is it quick. The change may take years to really take hold and be "lived" at all levels of an organization.

For teams and leaders, learning how to collaborate more effectively and efficiently, can be part of the shift to a more fluid working style. It's more likely that you may not have all the information you need, or can access yourself. It's likely you don't have all the relationships needed to get something done. Being able to liaise with, and work through others, is a critical skill set for today's workforce. A leaders' role, particularly one who is supporting a virtual or remote team, often becomes one of liaison - connecting others to resources and people.

What type of collaboration is needed? What is the level of skill around collaboration in your leadership? Team? I hope that you will take some time looking at the posts I've written on collaboration this month and in my earlier years of the blog. Check out past posts on collaboration here. https://www.potentialsrealized.com/apps/search?q=collaboration

Enjoy the focus,
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.

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Teams365 #2957 - Remote Pathways Podcast Link

2/3/2022

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We are well into the third season of the Remote Pathways podcast and we have been enjoying exploring key areas of remote work. Be sure to check out some of our recent podcast episodes including:

Episode 53 – Data Storytelling with Guest Winston Faircloth, Founder of or the Love of Team: https://www.remotepathways.com/podcast/ep53-data-storytelling-guest-winston-faircloth-for-love-of-teamtm-founder

Episode 52 – What’s Possible in 2022 - https://www.remotepathways.com/podcast/ep52-whats-possible-in-2022

Episode 51 – A year in review – our 2021 guests - https://www.remotepathways.com/podcast/ep51-a-year-in-review-part-2-our-fabulous-guests

Episode 50 – A year in review – Topics from 2021 - https://www.remotepathways.com/podcast/ep50-a-year-in-review-topics

Enjoy the listening and focus!
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.

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Teams365 #2954 - Month End Wrap Up and Monthly Planning Post

1/31/2022

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It’s the end of January and time to do another month-end wrap up post and monthly planning session. What are you noticing about your results this month?

As I have done for many months here at the Teams365 blog, I wanted to take a few minutes to support you in thinking through your month with these questions.

Consider the following questions as you reflect on the month of January:

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

Consider these questions as you look ahead to February:

What are your key priorities for February?
What are your top 3 goals – personally? Professionally?
What projects will you START? STOP? CONTINUE?
What will you need to place attention on?
What changes do you want to make in February?
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 reflection and I hope that you will take a few minutes to write these out. If you have a copy of either of my planners, PlanDoTrack (link to PR website) or Coaching Business Builder, take a few minutes to complete your month end reflections, and set up your February To Dos and Priorities. You can also follow along with one of my month-end planning session videos over at my
YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/effectivegroupcoach).

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.

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Teams365 #2953 - Week in Review

1/30/2022

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Welcome back to this week’s Week in Review. It’s been a full week here at the Teams365 blog.

Some of the posts we’ve explored this week are:
•        Saturday’s Team Tool Is/Is Not
•        Friday’s flashback posts regarding Learning
•        Thursday’s Learning Myth
•        Wednesday’s principle about learning and talent cycle
•        Tuesday’s Reconnecting Workspace Tip: Talent Management
•        Monday’s quote regarding learning and the talent cycle

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.

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Teams365 #2952 - Team Tool Is/Is Not

1/29/2022

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While it might sound clear, the person hearing this may have a very different idea of what’s needed. To avoid assumptions, create clarity. This can be assisted by what Steve Robbins calls the Is/Is Not tool. In an Is/Is Not tool, we want to have people articulate what the report is and is not.

Let’s look at the report writing example more in depth. To really leverage the Is/Is Not tool, you would want to get even more granular. For example,
The report is:
• Detailed
• Geared for our customers
• Showcasing at least six examples
• Including _(quantity)_ photos of the work in action
• Including _(quantity)_ stakeholders’ voices

The report is not:
• Video based • Future focused
• Geared for staff
• Focused on what didn’t work

In any projects you have coming up, consider how you might be able to use an Is/Is Not framework to help create clarity around the results. This helps to make things very specific and avoid assumptions. A key virtual tip is to name assumptions.

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.

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