🎒 Microlesson

🪞 Reflect

How much time do you spend developing connections on your team? 

💡 Concept

Building connections with other people is not just beneficial for your professional life—social connections benefit your overall well-being. This microlesson is a roundup of some of our favorite ways for remote workers to develop meaningful relationships across distance. 

👋  Add opportunities for connection in virtual meetings.

Instead of jumping into the first agenda item immediately, take time during virtual meetings to connect with team members. Learn more here. 

👯 Make remote work friends.

Meaningful relationships at work benefit the individuals involved as well as the team and organization they are part of. Learn more here. 

✉️  Build your network by reaching out directly.

In an office environment, you can more easily rely on serendipity to provide opportunities to meet people. In a virtual environment, however, you need to be more intentional in your efforts to build relationships. Learn more here. 

🧊 Learn something new about your distributed team members.

Learning something new about your coworkers helps foster a sense of connection and understanding within the team. Learn more here.

🎬 Take Action

• Choose one of the four 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 develop social capital as a remote worker in Growplaceless. 

✅ 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.