The goal for teams to stay positive, happy, and productive is important yet can sometimes lead to a desire to avoid or ignore conflict. In teams and organizations, the principles and practices we set around communication and conflict shape how people feel about work, and how they show up.
Core Practices for Connected Communication
Working remotely, managing remote teams, and for many, doing so while homeschooling and caregiving, has forced us to embrace and prioritize our humanity. The skills to communicate with empathy and build connection will be as critical as building our digital fluency, agility, and operational skills, and organizations will need to focus on helping teams and leaders rebuild and strengthen these core connection practices.
You Need Shared Agreements for Team Success
Managing Team Connection in Uncertain Times
3 Conversations You Need to Keep Having with Your Teams
For most of us, this is like nothing we’ve seen before. Decisions and actions happening quickly based on minimal information and hopeful speculation. As a leader you might feel like you have no time to eat or rest you’re so busy trying to keep up, keep the lights on, keep your customers cared for and keep paying your people.
It’s tough stuff. It’s real and it’s OK to be human and feel overwhelmed.
In the midst of crisis and I’d argue even more so, leaders can’t stop talking with each other or with their teams. We must put some intentional thought and focus on how you need to communicate not only as a leader but also as a team right now.