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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
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TEAMS365 #2544 – Team Building Tip #274 – Calibrate

12/17/2020

This Thursday’s Team Building Tip is CALIBRATE. What do you want to focus on adjusting?

Calibrate is defined by the Oxford Languages as “adjust (experimental results) to take external factors into account or to allow comparison with other data.”
This week, as many teams go to wind down their work for a few weeks, consider as a team, what do you want to CALIBRATE?

What are the things you want to ADJUST to take external factors into account?

What are the areas you want to compare with other data?

What’s important as a team to have dialogue around right now?

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
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Phone: (416)996-8326

TEAMS365 #2537 – Team Building Tip #273

12/10/2020

This week’s Team Building Tip gets us to explore habits. What are the habits you have been developing this year? What is helping you excel or thrive? Survive?

Habits are things that we do on a regular basis so that they become automatic.

For those in a remote working environment, you may want to experiment with these habits:

Working with periods of no notifications, or on airplane mode.
Setting a timer to get into the rhythm of working on a “heavy” or creative project - Sometimes it can take 10-15 minutes of getting going with a project.
Getting up to walk around every 50 minutes – Too much time sitting has an impact on everyone. What can you do to create more movement in your day? Take a look back to my July 2020 post on the importance of walking in nature.
Wrapping up meetings at 10 to the hour, to give people an opportunity to get moving with their work.
What else are habits which are going to help you as a team, or as a remote professional?

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 #2523 - Team Building Tip 271

11/26/2020

As we go to step into the last month of 2020 it is a great time to think about picking up a copy of the PlanDoTrack Workbook and Planner. The mantra of this work is “Consistent Steps + Daily Action = Momentum”.

When we work virtually it’s important to create momentum around key activities which are important to us. What are the things which are important to you to get traction around? What do you want to make sure you take action on?
Let us know, or have discussion as a team, in terms of what consistent action you want to get In the habit of.

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 #2516 Team Building Tip 270 - What do we want to fit into the last mile of the year?

11/19/2020

As we step into the last 6 weeks of the year, what are the things that are going to help you move through the last mile of the year? While it’s been a wild ride, it’s likely that there are certain things that you want to focus on.

In this week’s Team Building Tip is an invitation to discuss “What’s our last mile of the year – individually and collectively?”

For more on this, check out this YouTube video I did with a series of reflective prompts, as well as what elements are important.

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
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Phone: (416)996-8326

TEAMS365 #2509 - Team Building Tip 269

11/12/2020

This week’s Team Building Tip gets you to think about “What’s an energy booster?” From zoom fatigue to decision fatigue, 2020 is unlikely to go down as a year of too much energy.

This week have some discussion as to what can be an energy booster for you as a team. Consider the following:

Incorporate a mindfulness technique – breathwork, yoga or even a simple stretch!
Bring in a guest speaker
Co-work together – i.e. earmark a 2 hour block where you work live and real-time with others while working on different tasks. You might check in at the top of each hour.
Do a fun task together – ie Do a Cook Off and cook a meal together
Play a round of bingo
Attend an escape room virtually

What else could boost your energy quickly as a team?

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 #2502 – Team Building Tip 268- Celebrating and Acknowledgements

11/5/2020

What are the things you are celebrating in the team right now? As I’ve written in past posts, what are you acknowledging? What are the things which you are taking time to pause and explore?

Celebrations can take many forms including:

The traditional Employee or Team Member of the Week which might be recognized with a plaque, certificate or other piece
Providing acknowledgement moments in your meetings
Earmarking a special day for everyone to be focused on
Taking time at the end of projects that are complete, to celebrate their completion, as well as the learning and growth

What do you want to celebrate as a team? How will you celebrate?

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 #2495 – Team Building Tip 267

10/29/2020

This week’s Team Building Tip gets you to consider the question “How do you want feedback?”.

Having worked with thousands of leaders and teams in the last few decades around feedback, I’ve enjoyed exploring the question – How do you want feedback?

Some people love feedback

In writing, with time to process it before a conversation
Off the cuff, and regularly
Formally – face to face

What are your preferences? What about those you work with? What are their preferences?

Today’s Team Building Tip gets you to spend some time as a team exploring the topic of feedback.

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 #2488 - Team Building Tip #266: Pitfall Alert – Part 2

10/22/2020

We’re returning back to pitfalls this week, building onto what I discussed last week, given that many are concerned with what pitfalls can look like.

This week, sound the alarm! It’s all about taking a moment as a team to STOP. PAUSE. And consider what pitfalls you are experiencing. What are the pitfalls which are present in your work right now?

Consider pitfalls for the team like:

Lack of communication
Meetings for the sake of meetings
Not involving the right people in decision making
Assumptions which go unsurfaced

What are the pitfalls the team is facing right now?

Likewise, what are the pitfalls present for the organization?
Consider pitfalls like:

No planning process in place
Reactivity
A strategic plan that hasn’t been updated since the pandemic

What are the pitfalls for the organization?

Finally, what about pitfalls due to technology?

Consider:

People not feeling connected to others and the work they do, or the organization
People not feeling like they have a voice or an input channel
People not feeling heard

Each of these pitfalls has a significant business cost which can get magnified quickly in the remote space. What’s important to note about these pitfalls and what do you want to do about it?

Enjoy the conversations!
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 #2581 – Team Building Tip 266 – Pitfall Alert

10/15/2020

This week’s Team Building Tip gets you to consider the PITFALLS you may be facing – as a team or organization.

One of my current writing projects is the Daily Remote Guide. Recently we explored some of the pitfalls to remote work including:

Different types of social Interaction than what we experienced in the in-person space - While we can’t meet at the water cooler, what is the virtual watercooler you have access to?
Visibility - Several recent studies have found that many younger professionals are concerned about their visibility during this session. Out of Sight Does Not Mean Out of Mind. If you are concerned that no one knows what you do, consider how you can create more opportunities for sharing across the team?
Many items get magnified - From glitches to where there are gaps, consider how things get magnified in the remote space.
Collaboration - As I like to say, “no person is an island”. What’s going to help you collaborate across distance and space?
Myths - Many of the myths around remote work have been busted in recent months. From previous myths such as “if people work from home they will just sit around in pajamas” to “we really can’t connect virtually”. What are the myths which exist in your organization or industry? What’s going to help to dispel them?

What is going to support you?

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