Sticky Learning Lunch 30: How to Make Your Virtual Team More Effective

Exclusively to help line managers to discover ways to build a more effective virtual team, in Virtual Team Could be More Effective Part 2.

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Nathan Simmonds:

Good afternoon. Welcome to Sticky Learning Lunches with me, Nathan Simmons. We are just gonna give it 30 more seconds. Just we're all waiting for the last handful of people to arrive. How was everybody's weekend? Let me know in the questions box or the chat box for those in the UK that had a bank holiday. How was your long weekend for those? Not in the uk. How was your weekend? Two days ago? I think there's a few people still just trying to get back in the swing of things for a Tuesday. Hello, Colin. Fabian. Janine. Good to see you. Good to see you again, Pearl. Good to see you Stuart.

Nathan Simmonds:

I think with the long weekend here in the UK that we might see a few stragglers and a few people may be watching us on the replay rather than getting us live as they get back in the swing of things after three days or away in the garden. Windy to start, but so lots of time in the garden. Weed's still winning. Nah, well, weeds are just plants with a different viewpoint put on top of them. I know this 'cause I spent time on my allotment. I've got some potato plants here in the garden that are actually being weeds right now 'cause they're in the wrong place.

How to make an effective virtual team

 

Nathan Simmonds:

Attendees, let's just make sure we've got everyone here, Aaron, on. Good to see you, Tim. Good to see you. Welcome back. Let's dive in because we have got a couple of key points to, to cover. Anyone misses the first part, they can dive back in and get the recording later, whether that's on YouTube, whether you're watching this on the replay or whether you can watch this live and you're diving, we'll get there or you will get up to date rapidly.

Nathan Simmonds:

Part two of engaging virtually with our teams. Last week we covered some people, ah, always so eager to deliver the content. First of all, let's make sure we're setting everyone up for success. Mobile phones, let's get your mobile phones out, let's make sure they're on flight mode. So you zero out the distraction, a hundred percent attention on you. And you are learning and making sure that you are paying attention to what's happening and where your thoughts are going rather than what's happening coming through from your mobile phone.

Nathan Simmonds:

Thank you, Colin, for the reminder. Let's make it on full screen. So that's the first thing. Second thing is making sure you've got a drink and you are hydrated. It's getting warmer here. Let's make sure actually you are physically looking after yourself so you can mentally engage with what we're doing. And the third thing is making sure you've got a blank page in your not put note, not put notepad with keepers written at the top.

Nathan Simmonds:

And keepers are the things that you want to keep hold of the things you wanna remember and the things you wanna remind yourself about when you read back through your notes and say, ah, now I remember that thing. Ah, this is how it helps and this is how you are expanding it. So it's really important you're doing these three things to give yourself the the the focus and attention and engagement so that you are winning from this from the beginning. Part two.

Nathan Simmonds:

Then virtual engagement, how we are building stronger teams wherever they may be across the globe, across the country. And whatever satellite location in relation to you, you are building a tight network that looks and works much like more like a structure of a chemical compound. Well connected, well thought about and deliberate. So one of the key, well three of the key things that we picked up last week was the three differences.

Nathan Simmonds:

One is distance, two isolation, and three is connection.