Sticky Learning Lunch 29: How to Make Your Virtual Team More Effective

Exclusively to help line managers to discover ways to build a more effective virtual team.

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Nathan Simmonds:

Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to Friday Sticky Learning Lunches with me, Nathan Simmons. We are just giving it a moment for the last attendees to arrive. Before we dive in, let's just give it 30 seconds. While we're getting there, hope everybody's Friday is being good to them. So far right now, just as we're waiting for those last people to arrive, what is the best part about your Friday?

Nathan Simmonds:

And please, I will not accept the answer of, it's the last day of the week and it's the weekend. What is the best part about your Friday right now? Let me know in the questions box, what is the best part of your Friday right now? Just as those last people come in, we've got an acceleration on a big project. Nice, great way to finish the week. Good session as it is right now. Colin, thanks very much. Really appreciate that. Love the feedback.

Nathan Simmonds:

Just I'm gonna give you a couple more seconds as we're waiting for those people to arrive. Welcome to New Faces and old faces. Old as in people that have been there before, not age. Welcome, good to see you. Let's just make sure everyone's got their phones on flight mode. So get your phones out, make sure they're switched over to flight mode. Make sure that you've got zero distraction. Make sure you've got full attention on what you are doing right here for yourself right now. So phones on flight mode. Make sure you've got a drink as well. Make sure you've got hydration available. It might be a little bit less sunny. It is still warm here. Please make sure you are hydrated and you are ready for this session.

How to make your virtual team more effective

 

Nathan Simmonds:

And finally, the last part as always with these sessions is make sure you've got a fresh pad and pen available, a blank sheet for you to fill up. At the top of that sheet, you're gonna write keepers and keepers are the things that you want to keep hold of the space to put ideas that you want to come back to and, and be reminded of so you can invoke and recharge some of that thinking to help embed the learning and keep that behavioral change moving forward. It's what we do here at MBM. Good afternoon. Hello Tim. Good to see you again, Fabian. Great to see you again. Thanks for coming back. Great to see you people, Janine and Pearl. Great to see you.

Nathan Simmonds:

Welcome to today's Sticky Learning Lunch with me, Nathan Simmons, senior leadership coach and trainer for MBM making Business Matter at the home of Sticky Learning. And we are the leadership skills and soft, sorry, the leadership development and soft skills provider to the manufacturing industry idea of these sessions is to give you some core focus content that's gonna help you be the best version of you right now if you're working from home as well as for the future.

Nathan Simmonds:

And moving forward. Today's session is all about virtual teams and how we are creating more connection, how we we're getting better results from these new brave new world that we're living in right now. I am one for asking questions and we're gonna talk a bit about this later on. What are you doing right now that is enabling you to create a better connection with your virtual teams in your virtual environments? What are you doing right now that's creating stronger connections?

Nathan Simmonds:

Because I want a, I wanna see if there's something that I can learn from you and there's also, I wanna be able to share some things as well, practical, pragmatic approaches that maybe you are doing that other people aren't, and we can share that immediately and do some peer-to-peer coaching with the people that are here right now. What are you doing right now to create stronger connections with your virtual teams?