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Teams365 #2733 - Reconnecting Workspaces Team Tools

6/24/2021

Teams are often referred to as the Engines of Business. Supporting people to reconnect is a key part o helping organizations thrive. Throughout Reconnecting Workspaces, I include a different team tool or process which can be used to spark dialogue and/or discovery. In today’s Word Cloud you will see many of the tools shared, including:

Asking better questions

Checking in on Trust with the team

Working with styles

Exploring the Six Factors of Team Effectiveness

Looking at checklists for onboarding and capacity development

The arc of the coaching conversation

Virtual Meeting Planners

Visual Mapping

Time Trackers

What are the tools which are important to you right now to explore?

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 #2732 - Reconnecting Workspaces Myth- It’s all the same

6/23/2021

Welcome back to a Wednesday Reconnecting Workspaces Myth.

As I share in Chapter 2 of my new book, “It’s all the same. There’s a myth that managing a remote, virtual, or hybrid team is just like managing an in-person team. As we will see in this chapter, there are some very fundamental differences. One of the myths that is greatest to note is, “I need to micromanage.” Micromanagement is hard to do in the remote space!”

(Excerpt, Reconnecting Workspaces, Jennifer Britton, 2021. All Rights Reserved.

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 #2731 - Reconnecting Workspaces Principle- Virtual Work Has a Life of Its Own

6/22/2021

As I write in Chapter 2 of Reconnecting Workspaces, Principle: Virtual work has a life of its own. Expect the unexpected and embrace the chaos. From connections not working, to certain parts of the world being blocked by technology, it is likely that ingenuity, resourcefulness, and patience will serve you well as a virtual professional.

What do you notice about the characteristics which help you as a digital professional?

What do not notice about how virtual work really has a life of it’s own?

What do you enjoy?

What’s a drawback?

Enjoy your conversation and 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 #2730 - Reconnecting The Workspace Tip

6/21/2021

Happy Monday! This week we turn our attention to Chapter 2 of Reconnecting Workspaces. Chapter 2 is all about Today’s Workspace – The Digital World
Whether you work all remote or are transitioning into a hybrid workspace, core to the new way of working is connection.

As Alfred Edward Perlman wrote, “After you’ve done a thing the same way for two years, look at it carefully. After five years look at it with suspicion. After ten years, throw it away and start over.”

What are the things which are important to revisit and review? What is no longer relevant?

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 #2729 - Week in Review and quote

6/20/2021

“Having a shared vison is important because it helps everyone row in the same direction, even if they rowing in different lanes.”

Welcome back to another Sunday and the Week in Review.

It is Sunday which means that it is time for another quote and the week in review. Here’s what we covered this week:

Monday - In Focus or Metaphor

Tuesday - Brain Tip: Make it Visual/Focus

Wednesday - How the Workspace has Changed Over the Years

Thursday – 6 Questions: Team Sparker

Friday - Flashback – Review of the 3-Week Series Highlight

Saturday - Weekly Journaling Prompt 156: What Do You Need to Connect With?

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 #2728 - Weekly Journaling Prompt 156: What do you need to connect with?

6/19/2021

Welcome back to another Weekly Journaling Prompt. This week’s question is “What do you need to connect with?”.

As I’ve shared in Reconnecting Workspaces, and other areas, there are multiple layers to conversations in the virtual, remote and hybrid space, including connecting in with others, your context and what’s beyond the screen.

Read the past 6 Layers of Connection Blog post – https://www.potentialsrealized.com/teams-365-blog/teams365-2584-6-layers-of-connection-in-any-virtual-conversation

Listen into the Remote Pathways podcast episode here - https://www.remotepathways.com/podcast/ep35-six-layers-of-connection

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 #2727 - Flashback – Review of the 3 week series highlight

6/18/2021

Over the last three weeks we’ve taken a deeper dive into Reconnecting Workspaces, my latest book. Pick up a copy at

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0993791557

Warm regards,
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 #2726 - 6 Questions: Team Sparker

6/17/2021

Each of the chapters in Reconnecting Workspaces has a series of what I call 6 Questions. These are meant to be a sparker for team conversation. I’m pleased to share chapter 1’s Team Sparker questions with you here:

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1. What’s going to help you be most productive?

2. What support do you need to do your best work?

3. How do you want to stay connected with the team?

4. What support do you need from me?

5. What information/accessibility do you need to get your work done?

6. What feedback loops should we set up?

Consider WHEN and HOW you want to explore these questions. How can they help you be more successful?

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 #2725 - How the Workspace has changed over the years

6/16/2021

The virtual, remote and hybrid workspace has changed significantly over the years. Think about the changes you have seen. I explore this topic more in chapter one of Reconnecting Workspaces. In today’s post, I wanted to share one of the many illustrations from Reconnecting Workspaces. This one brings to life the dramatic changes we’ve seen over the decades.

Think about the changes that you’ve seen in your working career. For me, it just seems like yesterday when my connection to colleagues around the world was through the fax. (Yes, I am dating myself, and it’s important to recognize that for many of us we have been working hybrid and remotely for many years by choice).

Jack Nille’s writing around telecommuting really ushered in the 1970s what was possible.

The 1980s ushered in some amazing changes in terms of the big PC devices lit by a green screen. I remember having a printer at our office which was huge in changing the way I submitted assignments the 1990s things became more mobile and my first laptop weighed in at a low 14 pounds. It traveled everywhere with me though it was the only thing that got on a plane with me.

In the 2000s we now experienced the era of the BlackBerry and our devices got even smaller. I sure do ushering in the smaller tablets finally the 2010’s mobility was on its way and all things were great for the space 2020 of course became the year of the pivot as 3 billion people went digital overnight.

What lies ahead when we think about what 2021 means? Are you virtual, remote or hybrid? Today there are lots of options for all of us, some working better than others. What is important for you as you move forward with workspaces in your area?

Teams365 #2724 - Brain tip – Make it visual/focus

6/15/2021

Today we get to the first Brain tip of Chapter 1 in Reconnecting Workspaces.

Visuals are an important anchor and focus point for professionals in the virtual, remote and hybrid space. In addition to visuals creating an anchor, they also serve to make complex issues more understandable.
Here’s a short excerpt from Reconnecting Workspaces

BRAIN TIP: MAKE IT VISUAL/FOCUS
Visuals are powerful. While commonly debated as a point of potential “fake news,” a 1982 IBM brochure indicated that our brains process images 60,000 times faster than text.44

A study by Crocket found that “people can remember the content of 2500 pictures with over 90 percent accuracy 72 hours after looking at them for only 10 seconds. A year later participants
had 63 percent recall of those same images. With traditional lecture format delivery, students only remember 10 percent of the material 72 hours later.”45

Think about how metaphor, and how visual metaphors, i.e., pictures, can capture and encode ideas in a much different way than just words.

It’s one of the reasons why we’re exploring this here, and you’ll notice across this book that each chapter has icons to signify some of the key tips of the chapter, along with other illustrations.”

Excerpt – Reconnecting Workspaces: Jennifer Britton, page 20, All Rights Reserved.

Be sure to pick up a copy of the book at
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0993791557

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