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Teams365 #2765 - In focus or Metaphor

7/26/2021

The Knot is the icon for Chapter 3 of Reconnecting Workspaces, which covers the topic of Team Effectiveness.

Just like a knot, teams are as strong as their connections. Great teams are seamless in that they are able to focus on how they connect and what’s next.

In a hybrid and remote space, teams can appear to be seamless, when team members are connected in and are clear on their focus, mission, vision and how they do things.

What are you noticing about the elements that contribute to Team Effectiveness?

Activity:

Map out what the knot would look like for you and your team. How strong is it? What shape does it take?

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

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 #2764 - Week in Review and Inquiry

7/25/2021

This week we covered a lot of ground, zooming into productivity topics and components of Chapter 3 of my latest book, Reconnecting Workspaces.

Chapter 3 of Reconnecting Workspaces focuses on Team Effectiveness. Where are you as a team right now with the Six Factors of High Performance?

Specifically, this week we covered the following:

Monday - Reconnecting Workspaces Video – 3 Core Themes

Tuesday - Productivity Tip – Metrics that Matter

Wednesday – Are you facing the Great Resignation?

Thursday - Remote Pathways Podcast Episode 40- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Friday – Flashback to Productivity Tip #10 – Bullet Points

Saturday – Weekly Journaling Prompt – What’s next for me?

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

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 #2763 - Weekly Journaling Prompt 161 – What’s Next For Me?

7/24/2021

This week’s Weekly Journaling Prompt is “What’s next for me?”.

Summer 2021 for many is being characterized by the transition point between pandemic life and their next phase. Aligned with this is today’s journaling prompt of “What’s next for me?”.

Consider:

What’s changing?

What are you looking forward to?

What’s adjusting?

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

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 #2762 - Productivity Tip #10 – Support Action with 3 Bullet Points

7/23/2021

This week’s Friday flashback takes us into the realm of communication, clarity and bullet points. Let’s take a look back at Teams365 #1842: https://www.potentialsrealized.com/teams-365-blog/teams365-1842-productivity-tip-10-support-action-with-3-bullet-points

#10 – Support Action and Clarity with 3 Bullet Points

Communicating in business is usually about creating clarity so that people can take action. If our message is lost in transmission, we may have lost an opportunity to support change, missed a sale, or weakened a relationship.
Brevity is key to effective presentations and business communication. It helps us stand out and helps our message be memorable.

The latency and recency effects assert that we remember the start and the end of things. What are the key messages that you want people to remember? Keeping the latency and recency effect in mind, it is best to include the main points at the start and reinforce these again at the end.

Starting and wrapping up your presentation with 3 bullet points can be an effective way to boost retention of your message.

Rather than going into a long description, boil it down to 3 bullet points.

Activity:
Think about your upcoming presentations or marketing messages. What are the key points you want to communicate? What do you want to get across?
Think about the presentation. Write out the three bullet points you want people to remember.
Now think about the audience. What is important to them? What action do you want them to take?
Now rewrite your three bullet points.
As you think about the overarching arc of the presentation, what can you do to reinforce these three bullet points at the start of the presentation, and at the end?
Insert it now!

The 3-bullet point tip is also useful beyond communication, in light of overall productivity. Simpler is better. It helps us focus. As it applies to time management, at the start of the day identify what are the 3 core items that MUST GET Done. If all else fails, what are those 3 things?

Conversation Sparkers:

What is the message you want to communicate?
What do you want people to remember, and take action on?
What are the three bullet points?

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

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 #2761 - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Episode 40 - Remote Pathways Podcast

7/22/2021

One of the latest episodes of the Remote Pathways podcast is Episode 40 with a focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, with Christina Lee. Christina Lee is the founder and CEO of Paradigm 360 which provides a range of coaching services for organizations, with an emphasis on diversity, equity and inclusion.

Listen into our recent conversation with Christina at: https://www.remotepathways.com/podcast/ep40-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-guest-christina-lee-ceo-for-paradigm-360-coach-training-llc

This episode marks #40 in the series. This fall the podcast will mark the start of the third season. We are looking forward to continuing to bring you relevant topics for this field.

Have a great day!
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

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 #2760 - Are You Heading for the Great Resignation

7/21/2021

Summer 2021 headlines continue to reflect some of the sweeping change that mark our current decade. Everywhere you turn with summer’s headlines you may find notice of what some are indicating could be the “Great Resignation”. If you have not heard of it, it’s estimated that workers around the world will be resigning from their roles in massive amounts.

There are many different theories behind this including:

#1 – The pandemic has provided the opportunity for many employees to reassess what’s important to them, recognizing that the role they were in might not be the best fit.

#2 – The usual attrition which would naturally exist in the workplace has not happened to the same amount since early 2020, leading to a spike now.

#3 – Employees not being interested in returning to the same work environment or role.

There are several good articles that I have shared around this at the Virtual and Remote Visionaries Hub –https://www.facebook.com/groups/314116869730339/.

What are you noticing about workplace movement and attrition right now? What are your plans for the next phase of your career as things open up?

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

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 #2759 - Productivity Tip for Hybrid Work – Metrics That Matter

7/20/2021

An earlier precursor for Reconnecting Workspaces was PlanDoTrack, a workbook planner for remote and virtual professionals. As part of that book, I blogged for more than a year on Remote Productivity tips. I thought it would be useful to update these for the hybrid space, given that in hybrid work, most things are more complex.

One area that’s important regardless of what context we are working in is tracking metrics. Here’s what I wrote in PlanDoTrack Weekly Planning Tip 71 – Metrics that Matter

https://www.plandotrack.com/blog/weekly-planning-hack-71-metrics-that-matter
“Metrics that Matter” gets us thinking about the things you want to track. What’s important to you? What’s important to your work or business? How often are you pausing to see where things are at? What are the metrics that matter?

As I shared in an earlier community call metrics matter for several reasons including – they help to:

Anchor

While we may be a Jack or Jill of all trades, it can be important to bring “Experts” on board as well. Metrics are important in the hybrid world as they are something we can all do and share, whether we see each other or not.

Provide Data

Metrics provide data, offering a variety of engagement types – products and services, which can allow you to expand your reach and geographic impact. Data is critical for hybrid workspaces so everyone can measure where they are at.

Scaling

Metrics help with measurement and scaling. They indicate where you are and how far you have gotten.

Know Where We are Going

Metrics provide a marker, and help us know where we are on the pathway of the journey towards our goals.

Resource Allocation

Metrics also provide a way to allocate resources to what is needed.

What’s important to note about metrics in your work and world right now?

What are you doing to track your numbers? Is everyone tracking the same thing, in the same way?

How are you revisiting them - This week? This month? This quarter?

If you haven’t taken a look at your metrics from the last quarter, take a look back at them now. What do you notice?

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

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 #2758 - Reconnecting Workspaces Video – 3 Core Themes

7/19/2021

It’s always exciting to bring a new book out into the world. I am looking forward to hosting regular Monday morning calls between 1030 – 11 am ET this summer around Reconnecting Workspaces.

On Monday July 5th I recorded the latest video on 3 Core Themes of Reconnecting Workspaces. You can view it here- https://youtu.be/WsvJIVJR2kM)

In that 25-minute call I shared three core areas to consider as you reconnect in the workspace. Each of these are topics I explore in the book.

I will be hosting these 20-30 minute calls during the month of July and August – be sure to join us for the next program, and download a copy of the upcoming schedule at https://www.reconnectingworkspaces.com.

Be ahead of the curve as you go to reconnect in today’s workspaces!

Enjoy the conversations,
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

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 #2757 - Week in Review and Prompt

7/18/2021

Thanks for joining me this week as we dove into Chapter 3 of my new book, Reconnecting Workspaces.

Chapter 3 is all about Team Effectiveness, of which relationships are an important part of the equation. This week we explored the following from Chapter 3 of Reconnecting Workspaces- https://www.amazon.com/Reconnecting-Workspaces-Pathways-Thrive-Virtual/dp/0993791557

Monday – Core Ingredients for Virtual Teams

Tuesday – Principle of Keeping It Simple

Wednesday – Myth of I can do it alone

Thursday’s Team Tool – Connection Tools for Teams

Friday’s Flashback – Barriers to Virtual Collaboration

Saturday’s Weekly Journaling Prompt – Connection Means..

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

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 #2756 - Weekly Journaling Prompt 160: Connection Means…

7/17/2021

Welcome back to another Weekly Journaling Prompt. This week’s WJP is “Connection Means….”

Connection means so many different things for different people. It has become apparent that “no person is an island” (as I shared in Wednesday’s post – www.potentialsrealized.com/teams-365-blog/teams365-2753-myth-i-can-do-it-all-alone).

As you think about today’s prompt you might consider:

Who are you connected with?

What does connection look like?

What does connection feel like?

Who do you want to connect with?

What ways do you want to boost connection?

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

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.