🎒 Microlesson

🪞 Reflect

If you can’t see what your colleagues are working on, how do you know whether or not team projects are progressing as they should?

💡 Concept

When you work in a remote or hybrid team, it can be hard to tell what's getting done and who might need a little nudge. 

This microlesson is a roundup of ways to make sure work keeps moving when you’re part of a distributed team. 

🛑 Stop using meetings to drive project progress. 

Many project teams schedule recurring check-ins to make sure that projects move forward. But relying heavily on meetings often has the opposite effect: it slows everything down. Learn how to use async communication instead of meetings in order to maintain momentum.

🙂 Practice proactivity to build trust in distributed teams.

Being proactive means taking initiative and making things happen instead of just reacting to events or expecting someone else to resolve an issue. If you notice or predict an issue that could impact your timeline, speak up to mitigate any potential negative effects on your project.  Learn how proactiveness impacts distributed teams and how to practice it to improve team outcomes. 

📃 Document decisions to prevent information silos.

When decisions are made verbally, they should be documented in a way that is accessible to everyone who needs the information. This helps team members continue to make progress on their tasks even if they were not present when changes were made to a project’s timetable, requirements, or deliverables. Learn more here. 

 📋 Share daily priorities asynchronously.

Effectively setting daily priorities can improve productivity and ensure that everyone understands what they should be doing to support the team. Learn strategies to help manage and communicate priorities.

🎬 Take Action

• Choose one of the actions listed in this microlesson and commit to trying it. 

• Complete your action within the next two weeks. 

• Reflect on the impact that your action has. 

• Share your results.

🧠 Keep Learning

Learn more about how to manage team productivity and performance in Leadplaceless. 

✅ Check In

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