And some of them are taking Zoom calls from their car because it's the only place that they can actually close the door and get some quiet - but working in your car all day as a knowledge worker or as a member of a team is tough. And so while the instinct - particularly in the middle of the org and the front line - might be to ask for more status reporting and weekly status reports, that's a really hard ask right now.Īnd it's hard because you know that your team members are homeschooling, caring for their kids, maybe even caring now for their parents in their own home. AutomatedĪfter the first two weeks at home, managers and leaders realize they need a lot more visibility and control than they actually have in this distributed world. It requires new digital ways of working and new guidance and expectations for managers. Set them up for autonomy.įor "old school" companies and those with large workforces and limited manager effectiveness, this is a hard but important transition. There are very few things our team members have control over right now – but the ability to do meaningful work independently should be one of them! What that work is, the information and capacity to progress it independently and the confidence that it matters are essential to their well being and your company’s well being. People need to make progress and decisions without the need to convene people for permission or information. And that allows us to move forward on our own pace and in the moment - rather than needing to align our moments at 2:00 PM tomorrow when we're all going to meet. If we can asynchronously, reliably exchange facts and status with each other, then we can also reliably and efficiently make progress on our own, find the facts on our own. We need to be able to put the data in a place where we know others can self-serve from it fast and efficiently. People - the members of your team and people across the organization - need to be able to get and share status, facts, and issues reliably with each other without meeting. To thrive now, people's work, results and the data about them need to be asynchronous, autonomous, automated, and accelerated. There just aren't enough hours in the day to quarterback a team, much less an entire company, by jumping on a video meeting. And, in many ways, meetings are robbing us of the capacity we need and the satisfaction we get from doing important work every single day: of actually getting something done.Īnd what we know now is that video meetings alone really can't drive the business resilience and results that we need as an organization. You have no capacity left to do any of the things that you discussed meeting after meeting (after meeting).
It has become exhausting, and it has really become what I think of as the meeting trap - it's all talk, no action. Most of us now find ourselves on video calls all day long - really morning to evening, every day. So I can go on, knowing that He is creating a symphony that no soundbite can due justice to.Your browser does not support the audio element.ĭeidre Paknad, WorkBoard CEO: Let's talk about the meeting trap. I can hear my little part in it and smile. I can hear they beautiful strain of His story. If I look back on the whole and listen I can hear it. While my life may not always sound the bet when I condense it into ten seconds, God is always making a good symphony. No one writes a symphony better than God. The lower notes that add a richness to the whole and the high notes that spur me on. The seemly random "instruments" that come together to make a beautiful whole. The life that you live creates a symphony for Me." It was then I started to hear it. "Your life isn't meant to be lived for the soundbites. On the car trip home I was talking to God. Essentially when people would ask me how I was doing I feel like the answer would come out something like this, "Well, I'm currently unemployed, single, and I no idea what next year will look like." I mean I still have a great family and a good life, but at that moment I felt like compared to so many of my cousins who have spouses and amazing careers my life wan't making a good soundbite. Nothing had really changed in my life since 2017. I had recently left my daycare job and was waiting to hear back from the preschool that I wanted to get hired at. Last Thanksgiving I was feeling a little insecure. It's always a fun time to catch up with relatives that we only see once a year. At Thanksgiving my extended family gets together at my great aunts house for dinner.
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