Zoomed Out
Connecting with Your Team in a Virtual World
Welcome to the great unknown. We are managing our work life, personal life, emotional well-being and our productivity all from our house. It’s easy to feel a bit lost and disconnected during this time.
As we all remain agile and try our best to push through, one of the most important things we need to focus on is connecting with our team. Connection is a basic human need. We are social creatures, after all! We are designed to be physically close to each other, pick up non-verbal cues, and mirror each other’s behaviors. With the richness of in person conversations being limited, we need to understand how to fill the gap.
Bring everyone together to learn about this basic human need of connection and how to do it through technology.
In this session, we will cover
Welcome to the great unknown. We are managing our work life, personal life, emotional well-being and our productivity all from our house. It’s easy to feel a bit lost and disconnected during this time.
As we all remain agile and try our best to push through, one of the most important things we need to focus on is connecting with our team. Connection is a basic human need. We are social creatures, after all! We are designed to be physically close to each other, pick up non-verbal cues, and mirror each other’s behaviors. With the richness of in person conversations being limited, we need to understand how to fill the gap.
Bring everyone together to learn about this basic human need of connection and how to do it through technology.
In this session, we will cover
- Human Stress Reaction: Why humans behave differently under stress of the unknown
- The social nature of humans and why video conferencing cannot fully replace in-person connection
- Four habits you can build into your team meetings to help connect emotionally and relationally even over video
