🎒 Microlesson
🪞 Reflect
How do scheduling and time zones impact your ability to meet and work together as a team?
💡 Concept
If you’re a remote worker on a distributed team, chances are high that you work with people in different time zones. Even if you’re very used to coordinating with your immediate team members’ schedules, it can be easy to forget to accommodate the time zones of clients, contractors, and colleagues outside of your team.
Confirming someone else’s time zone whenever you schedule a meeting is essential, and proactively sharing your own time zone is helpful, too. Here’s why:
🕐 It makes scheduling easier and less prone to error.
🕑 It reminds you that your time zone is not everyone's time zone.
🕒 It also serves as a reminder for others to take time zones into consideration in their communications and scheduling.
Use time zone conversion tools to help make this task easier.
🎬 Take Action
Add your time zone to your email signature.
Add your time zone to your profile on your team's go-to communication platform (Slack, Teams, etc.).
Map out your team’s time zones when creating a team working agreement.
Don't forget to update your information if you're a digital nomad or if you're just working from a different time zone for a while!
🧠 Keep Learning
Learn more about coordinating multiple time zones in Workplaceless Remote Work Certification.
✅ Check In
🎁 Learn with your team!
Refer our weekly microlessons to your team members to learn as a group! Just follow the instructions in the section below to get started.
