Teamwork increases camaraderie and productivity, but how can employees work together when they’re rarely in the same place? With the increase in remote work, many organizations are looking for new team building strategies.
At WORKOPTI, our founder got the idea for our technology from seeing the consistent lack of infrastructure to power seamless collaboration across silos between executives and their teams as the anchor for driving consistent enterprise growth in a digital first economy.
WORKOPTI was born in the pandemic and maintains a work effectively anywhere philosophy that is anchored in customer obsession. Our customer obsession causes us to enjoy spending over 10,000 hours learning about what challenges our customers are facing everyday and how our software can help them overcome those challenges.
With the advent of remote work due to Covid-19, enterprises are faced with the challenges for maintaining team culture in the midst of uncertain economic times. Let's discuss how you can win in an environment where we all working with distributed teams.
Even though we all face uncertainty, there are many advantages to remote work. For example, you may enjoy greater flexibility and reduce your environmental impact. Still, if you’re operating out of a home office now, you may also feel isolated and find it difficult to collaborate.
We at WORKOPTI want to share some simple strategies on how your team can get better at collaborating as humans in a remote working environment.
When you read this, think of this as an opportunity to improve your skill set.
This week try these techniques for maximizing cohesion and cooperation.
Informal Strategies for Remote Team Building
In a conventional office, employees can drop by each other’s cubicles and hang out in the break room.
Try these alternatives for encouraging casual socializing that helps develop healthy work relationships:
Formal Strategies for Remote Team Building
Effective team building also requires more structured approaches.
These activities can be customized to the needs of your team and the nature of your work:
You can enjoy being part of an exceptional team while you work remotely. Team building based on communication and collaboration will help you to learn from each other and pursue shared goals successfully.
With WORKOPTI, we designed a human-first platform where you can plug in any existing tool into our system of record for marketing operations to drive operational efficiency anchored in results.
As usual, in a future post, I would love to share how you have applied these ideas to build stronger Business Continuity Strategy anchored in strong internal team based relationships.