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#TEAMS365 #2101 – Welcome to October – Continued Focus On Remote Work

10/1/2019

This month we are going to look at several interesting topics including:

The variations of remote work
Remote Team Tools
Getting organized in the remote space
Performance Reviews in the Remote Space
Remote Myth Buster – Things need to take longer
Setting up the team for remote team success – Going back to the basics

Given that it's the start of a new month, let's take a few minutes to look back at September and consider what's important for your month ahead.

AS you think about September, make sure you have captured your thinking around these questions:
1. Key successes in September were...
2. Lessons learned were....
3. Next month I will
4. Something which surprized me this month was...
5. Something I want to replicate is....
6. Other things to note are..

Questions to consider as we step into October:
1. What are your top 3-5 goals this month?
2. What needs to get completed, no matter what?
3. What habits and practices do you want to lean into?
4. What do you need to say NO To?
5. Who do you want to collaborate with?
6. My theme this month is....
Be sure to check out yesterday's post as well about Q4 planning.

Look forward to diving deeper into the remote work space this month!

Best,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton – Potentials Realized
Leadership | Teamwork | Business Success
Author of multiple books including Effective Virtual Conversations (2017), PlanDoTrack (2019) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (2013)
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For those looking for tips, tools and ideas about remote work and support for your remote teams, be sure to check out these tags and resources.

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#TEAMS365 #1940 – Team Springboard – Virtual Co-working sessions

4/23/2019

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This week’s Team Springboard gets you thinking about the value and practice of virtual co-working sessions. For those that are remote workers, a virtual co-working session might connect people on zoom or Skype for a one -hour or half-day session where team workers work live throughout the session, or meet at the top of the hour, checking in on progress.

These virtual co-working sessions can provide many benefits including:

A focused time to get things done – when was the last time you scheduled a block of time that was “meeting free” to get things done?
Making a list of things that just need to get checked off
Using the power of peer accountability in ensuring that you do what you say you are going to do in short bursts
Connecting with others – the isolation effect of remote work can wear on many remote workers. This isolation may lead to a lack of focus, prioritizing “house” items over work items etc.

Questions to consider:

What would be the benefit of scheduling a virtual co-working session?
When could you put a 1-4-hour block in the calendar with one or more colleagues?
What would you put on your “To Do” list?

Schedule it now and send out your invite! You’ll be happy you did!

Enjoy your week and your productivity,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton – Potentials Realized
Leadership | Teamwork | Business Success
Author of multiple books including Effective Virtual Conversations (2017), PlanDoTrack (2018) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (2013)
Follow along with the #90DaysPlanDoTrack series over at Instagram @CoachingBizBuilder
Now available – PlanDoTrack Workbook and Planner - Order a copy today on Amazon
Join the conversation at the Conversation Sparker Zone - our online community where you can explore virtual and team issues, coaching, productivity and business development).
Check out the new 19 Tips for Productivity On-Demand Course. If this is your year to get things moving, check it out now. Join Jenn for bi-weekly live group calls until July. $129 US. Learn more and enroll here.

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#TEAMS365 #1715 - 10 Things to Do with Your Team #2 (tips 4 –6)

9/11/2018

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Last week I started a four-part series of blog posts on 10 Things to do with your team. If you didn’t catch Wednesday’s post on ideas one through three, catch up on them here.

Today I wanted to cover 3 more things:

Area #4 – Mapping out key work flows – Many teams today, especially virtual teams, don’t have a good sense of how work fits together. This is an important area to explore at the macro-level with remote and virtual teams, given the “domino effect” that can happen across a team when one person does not complete work on time, or as planned.
As a team you will want to consider key activities projects you have until the end of the year. One at a time, map out the key tasks of the project or activity. What’s the sequencing? Who is responsible for what? What needs to happen before the next person can start, or complete, the work?
As you map this out - and it can literally be a mapping on a white board or white screen, or a set of post-it notes – identify

Area #5 – Role Clarity
Going hand in hand with work flows, and what people are doing, is clarifying with team members their roles. This is often one of the areas teams struggle with the most. It is common for roles to be undefined, duplicative, and gaps may exist.
In clarifying roles, you may want to consider these types of questions:

Who does what on the team?
Where is there overlap?
Where is there a gap?
What are the areas which are not being covered?
Is everyone in the right role (i.e. are people’s strengths being leveraged? Consider who is good at getting things done vs. planning, starting things vs. wrapping them up)

Tomorrow I’ll be spotlighting two more ideas you might want to incorporate this fall with your team.

Best wishes,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Effective Virtual Conversations | Coaching Team Leaders
We provide team and leadership development support through coaching, consulting and training services
Author of several books including the 2018 Coaching Business Builder Workbook and Planner & Effective Virtual Conversations (2017)
Email: info@potentialsrealized.com
(416)996-8326

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#TEams365 #1505: TEAM TOOL: Relationship Mapping

2/13/2018

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In today’s interconnected world, many of us have to interface with a wide variety of both internal and external partners. From members of other teams, to our customers/clients, to other agencies and organizations. Given that teams, not just leaders, are responsible for relationship development, it can be useful to get the team attuned to what their key relationships are internally and externally.
This is an activity you might consider doing as part of your next team meeting. You’ll see one of my own relationship maps for my business here.
Instructions:
Using a whiteboard place a circle on the board first, with the name of your team. First make a list of all the potential people you partner with. Select one color marker for internal team partners and one for external team members. One at a time, map out how close you are to each of these internal and external relationships. IF it is a close relationship place them closer towards your circle, if they are further away place them further away.
Have people indicate what is important about that relationship – is it a relationship which enable you to do things, do you get important information from them, do they provide resources etc? Also note for each relationship what needs attention.
Seeing these interconnections visually can bring to life the relationships, helping people understand how much they are part of a web and dependent on others.

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#TEAMS365 #2101 – Welcome to October – Continued Focus On Remote Work

#TEAMS365 #1940 – Team Springboard – Virtual Co-working sessions

#TEAMS365 #1715 - 10 Things to Do with Your Team #2 (tips 4 –6)

#TEams365 #1505: TEAM TOOL: Relationship Mapping

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Teams365 Blog

#TEAMS365 #2101 – Welcome to October – Continued Focus On Remote Work

#TEAMS365 #1940 – Team Springboard – Virtual Co-working sessions

#TEAMS365 #1715 - 10 Things to Do with Your Team #2 (tips 4 –6)

#TEams365 #1505: TEAM TOOL: Relationship Mapping

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PicK up a copy of PlanDoTrack - For Virtual and Remote Professionals

Become a PlanDoTrack Facilitator:​STarts November 15 2019:

Avoid the "Death by Conference CAll" - EVC Book:

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Become a PlanDoTrack Facilitator:
STarts November 15 2019: