High Impact New Year’s Resolutions for Remote and Hybrid Teams
If 2022 felt positively transformative for your organization, but also a bit like a marathon with a moving finish line, you aren’t alone.
Most of us are on the other side of a few years of rapid workplace change. You’ve likely worked hard to build new strategies and address challenges of a new work paradigm. Just getting there is worth a celebration! And yet for most of us… the challenges keep coming.
Long gone are the days of cobbling together a work from home contingency plan for your organization just to get by until things ‘get back to normal’. The majority of organizations have been flexing their Future of Work muscles to make long term decisions about the structure of flexible work within their company, with varying degrees of success.
While the ideal flexible workplace format is still up for debate, it’s becoming clear that organizations who have been intentional in their flexible work strategies are rising to the top in terms of talent acquisition, innovation, growth, and revenue, whereas organizations who haven’t are struggling with employee turnover, burnout, disengagement, and poor communication.
Whether your remote or hybrid team has been focused and functional this year or just getting by, it’s that time of year when we set intentions for how we want the year to go.
Start your year off right, enroll in one of our beginning of year Flexible Work Leadership Bootcamps or schedule your Virtual Health Analysis.
Resolutions for remote and hybrid teams:
1. Slim down your meeting schedule
Struggling with meeting fatigue? Get intentional about designating a balance of asynchronous vs synchronous communication, appropriate communication channels, and reducing your team’s meeting volume this year.
2. Declutter your digital toolkit
Identify use cases for each tool in your company's software directory, audit for tool redundancy and designate urgency hierarchy for use to streamline operations this year, and potentially cut operational costs.
3. Communicate with clarity
Determine and document company and team communication standards to minimize uncertainty and confusion around response times, professionalism standards, engagement policies, and urgent communication protocols.
4. Champion remote engagement strategies
How does your team stay connected while apart? If you haven’t been intentional about virtual culture in the past, 2023 is a great time to launch initiatives to connect and engage your team members.
5. Check in on your virtual health
While industry conversations around remote work tend to focus on trending topics like culture and wellness, make sure you are aware of your organization’s virtual health in all six core areas of virtual health; workforce, management, culture, infrastructure, compliance, and workplace.
And, as we all know, New Year’s resolutions are only as useful as the follow through.
Start your year off right, enroll in one of our beginning of year Flexible Work Leadership Bootcamps or schedule your Virtual Health Analysis.
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