Remote Working Challenges: Building Team Connection

In this week's edition of Impactful Teamwork, the focus is on managing remote and hybrid teams effectively. Prompted by a coaching client's challenges, the episode explores the complexities of building connections and relationships in a remote environment. Key topics include balancing task completion with relationship building, embracing individuality alongside collective identity, and managing technology and resources wisely. Practical exercises, such as visualising polarities, are offered to help leaders maintain an equilibrium between conflicting priorities. The importance of real-time communication, the impact of time zones, and the necessity of clear team structure and technology policies are discussed as critical factors for virtual team success. The episode concludes with an invitation for listeners to share their own strategies for managing remote teams.00:00 Introduction to Remote Team Management00:55 Challenges of Hybrid Work02:30 Understanding Polarities in Virtual Teams04:01 Balancing Tasks and Relationships07:11 Leveraging Technology for Better Connections08:43 Importance of Face-to-Face Interactions09:56 Informal Communication and Learning17:22 Addressing Time Zone Challenges19:30 Optimizing Team Structure21:31 Conclusion and Invitation for FeedbackConnect with Julia:WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramTake the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills!Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on Spotify

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This podcast is for you if you’re a business owner, business leader, entrepreneur or executive who knows they want to make a real impact in the world and knows they can’t do it alone. Your host is Julia Felton, a leadership and team engagement specialist provides unique insights into how to harness the energy of your people to create massive business momentum through unlocking the super-power of teamwork. Some of the questions we grapple with are: - You know you need a team to help you but how do you get your team on the same page? - How do you get them pulling in the same direction and not pulling apart? - How do you create a connected, collaborative, cohesive team? In this podcast I will be sharing with you strategies and tactics to help you become the best leader you can be so that you can inspire IMPACTFUL teamwork. Teams that make a real difference. Each podcast will be full of actionable steps you can take and implement immediately. We’ll also be interviewing guests to learn from them what has worked for them and importantly what hasn’t. Rest assured there will also be a good dose of wisdom from the natural world as I believe that nature contains a blueprint for how we can all work together to create engaged, enthusiastic, empowered teams.