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Teams365 #2848 - Week in Review

10/17/2021

That’s a wrap for Chapter 7 and our focus on Systems, Processes and Tools. This past week we explored the following:

Saturday’s Wrap-up and Weekly Journaling Prompt (inspired by Halloween)

Friday’s Flashback

Thursday’s Six Leadership Questions

Wednesday’s Systems for Consistency and Connection

Tuesdays’ Brain tip around the Social Brain

Monday’s In Focus- The Urgent/Important Matrix

What else is important to explore right now?

Best wishes,
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 books, Reconnecting Workspaces and 90-Day Guide for Success: Pathways to Thrive in the Virtual, Remote, and Hybrid World at Amazon.

Teams365 #2847 - Wrap Up and Weekly Journaling Prompt

10/16/2021

And that’s it for the dive into chapter 7 of Reconnecting Workspaces where we focused on all things systems, practices and tools. While it may not be the most exciting part of work, it is and important part of keeping things moving. From leadership systems, to feedback loops, we’ve explored a variety of items which are important.

Keeping aligned with the upcoming Halloween holiday, this week’s Weekly Journaling Prompt is “If you had three wishes to grant, what would they be?”.
Can’t wait to kick off next week and our next chapter with you. Coming up – Chapter 8 of Reconnecting Workspaces!

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 books, Reconnecting Workspaces and 90-Day Guide for Success: Pathways to Thrive in the Virtual, Remote, and Hybrid World at Amazon.

Teams365 #2845 - 6 Questions for Remote Work

10/14/2021

SIX QUESTIONS FOR MORE REMOTE WORK

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

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

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

4. What information/accountability do you need to get your work moving?

5. What feedback loops are needed?

6. What is important to share with others?

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 books, Reconnecting Workspaces and 90-Day Guide for Success: Pathways to Thrive in the Virtual, Remote, and Hybrid World at Amazon.

Teams365 #2844 - Systems for Consistency and Connection

10/13/2021

RECONNECTING THE WORKSPACE TIP—SYSTEMS

Right now (and really, when you think about it, at all times), systems can be critical for consistency and connection. Think about your communication systems which help you connect, or your IT which helps you share information. What about the systems and automations which ensure consistency. What’s in place?

Here’s what I wrote about Systems for Consistency and Connection at the end of Chapter 7. Enjoy!

Systems ensure consistency in the hybrid and remote world so that we can be location independent. What systems are going to help people reconnect and collaborate with each other?

Systems bring fluidity regardless of what time or day we are working on it, or where we are engaging on it from. Systems range from customer service to communication, onboarding, administration to marketing. What are the systems which are going to create consistency and connection across your organization?

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
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 books, Reconnecting Workspaces and 90-Day Guide for Success: Pathways to Thrive in the Virtual, Remote, and Hybrid World at Amazon.

Teams365 #2843 - Brain Tip: The Social Brain

10/12/2021

Social Learning Theory was conceptualized many years ago from Arthur Bandura. Since that time there has been a lot of science and research to underpin why social learning is important. Here’s what I share in Chapter 7’s Brain tip of “The Social Brain”. Let’s take a look at what I shared in Reconnecting Workspaces. https://www.amazon.com/Reconnecting-Workspaces-Pathways-Thrive-Virtual/dp/0993791557

“Connection is a critical part of thriving in any workspace. Matthew Lieberman explores this topic in Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect. In addition to having systems and being able to work asychronously, there is value in a social network and connection.

Back in the 1970s, Arthur Bandura created Social Learning Theory, grounded in four main areas:

• Observation (environmental)—observing and learning from the context in which we operate.
• Retention (cognitive)—how do I remember this?
• Reproduction (cognitive)—how do I reproduce this? Use this?
• Motivation (both cognitive and environmental)—noticing what is motivational and what is not

In order for learning to occur, we need to create opportunities for learning on all four layers. What are you doing in your organization to focus on these four areas?”

End of Excerpt: Reconnecting Workspaces, © 2021 Jennifer Britton

Consider these four areas – observation, retention, reproduction and motivation. What’s important about this 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 books, Reconnecting Workspaces and 90-Day Guide for Success: Pathways to Thrive in the Virtual, Remote, and Hybrid World at Amazon.

Teams365 #2834 - Week in Review

10/3/2021

Welcome back to a Sunday round-up. What were the top 3 -5 highlights of your week? A few days ago I launched the 90 Day Guide To Success, the 2nd book in the Reconnecting Workspaces series. You can find it at https://www.amazon.com/dp/0993791573. It’s a perfect companion for those who are looking for a daily guide to accompany and focus their work. Enjoy!
Here’s what we covered this week:

Saturday’s Weekly Journaling Prompt – This Quarter I..

Friday’s Flashback to several core leadership systems which EVERYONE can use

Thursday’s focus on Team Tools

Wednesday’s focus on a Remote Working Myth around Systems

Tuesday’s focus on Remote and Hybrid Principles around the Lowest Common Denominator

Monday’s post which introduced Chapter 7 and the focus on Systems and Tools. And the Reconnecting the Workspaces Tip for Chapter 7.

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 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.

Teams365 #2832 - Flashback Friday: Systems to Support Your Work As A Team Leader

10/1/2021

In mid-August I did a post that got us to do a system check around core areas in your business. If you haven’t completed that, take a few minutes to lead on over to that mid-August 2021 blog post and flashback.

Today I thought it would be interesting to explore several Leadership Systems. One things that has shifted in the recent months has been the fact that EVERYONE needs systems to thrive in the remote space, not just the leader. While the leader will be responsible for setting these up, everyone on the team may be well positioned to input. Let’s take a look at what I shared back in Teams365 #532 - https://www.potentialsrealized.com/teams-365-blog/teams365-532-systems-to-support-your-work-as-a-leader

“As a leader it is important to have a variety of supports to help you and you team run and soar in your work. Systems support you in streamlining and not having to reinvent the wheel all the time. Consider these common areas leaders usually have in place"

Communication systems - Consider how the team communicates with each other - email, text,, face to face. Ask yourself:
- What's working?
- What's not?
- What are the shared agreements you want to have about how and when to communicate?
- What's the accepted norm, what's not?

Meeting systems - How are your meetings facilitated? Face to face? Where could your meetings get a tweak? Review Tems365 #211: Meeting Management Faux Pas to avoid these traps - Click here to read

Email systems - Consider how you will use email, boundaries around this and also how you want to track and file your email. Email management can take up to 40% of a leaders' time

Performance Management systems - What is the culture of performance management? Hopefully it is not once a year but it is an ongoing process and conversation with each of your team members?

Reward and Recognition systems - What do you do to reward and recognize your team members? How does each person want to be recognized and rewarded?

What other systems support you in getting the results you are getting, or are seeking?"

Enjoy your 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.

Teams365 #2831 - Team Tool

9/30/2021

Whether it’s tools or checklists, it can be very important to keep everyone on the same page. This is particularly important when we are working hybrid and are in a more flexible format, where we might not all get together at the same time, and we may be focusing on work in different ways.

Here are several areas you will want to consider:

• Goals
• Action
• Strategic planning
• Project log
• Status update
• Milestone checkpoint: where are we and where do we want to be?
• Vision/mission/mandate meetings: What’s our vision for our work?
• Three-way midpoint meeting
• Goals, accomplishments, resources
• Matrix management checklist:
• What do we need to cover (reporting, goals, priorities)?
• What issues need to be surfaced, when, and how?
• What are the things we need to know about each other? What are our preferences for
knowledge—lots of info, less info, when to surface issues?
• How do we communicate in between issues? To what level?

This is an excerpt from Chapter7 of Reconnecting Workspaces. Pick up a copy on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Reconnecting-Workspaces-Pathways-Thrive-Virtual/dp/0993791557

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.

Teams365 #2830 - Myth: I Need To Have All The Answers

9/29/2021

The Chapter 7 Myth in Reconnecting Workspaces is “I need to have all the answers. I shouldn’t share what I know.”

In fact, it’s nearly impossible to know everything in the remote space. We need to be able to collaborate with others to get a big picture and this usually involves sharing what we know.

As you consider your work, where would you benefit from more sharing? What information do you feel you need in order to your work? What is important to note about information flow?

There is an important skill to thriving in the remote space which is being comfortable with not knowing. Many of us have learned how to be more at ease when we don’t have the entire picture, and we aren’t clear on everything. What do you notice about the strategies you employ to get clearer on things?

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.

Teams365 #2829 - Principle: Lowest Common Denominator

9/28/2021

Principle: Lowest Common Denominator. Everyone needs to know.

The Principle of Chapter7 is find the Lowest Common Denominator. Particularly in a hybrid team it is important that we find the common ground, boosting connection and inclusivity.

The lowest common denominator can play out in several ways including:
What is the best platform for us to meet on? This is important if different team members have constraints with connection and/or equipment.
What is the best time for us to connect? Consider this particularly when you are always meeting at the same time.

What does “Lowest Common Denominator” mean for you as a team? What’s important to note?

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 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.