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12 5-Minute Team Building Activities: Fun, Fast, & In-Person

Powers Resource Center

Do your team building activities help support open communication and collaboration? Do team members have aligned goals – and understand how to have each other’s back? That’s because cohesive, connected teams function better and have more fun! Feel free to give guidelines or simply give your team the sky’s limit!

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How Remote Working is Transforming the Workplace

Professional Alternatives

Challenges of remote working While remote working offers numerous advantages, it also presents its fair share of challenges. Without the social interactions and support systems present in a traditional office setting, remote workers may feel disconnected from their colleagues and experience feelings of loneliness.

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The Top 5 Misconceptions About Flexible Working

Professional Alternatives

Companies should offer clear guidelines on the kinds of flexibility provided like remote work, less hours, asynchronous schedules, task distribution or compressed work weeks; then craft a centralized approval process that makes sure the system is equitable. Structure and clarity aids flexible working. 3) Losing Collaboration.

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Remote Team-building Series: Virtual Team-building Activities

Rise

Team-building is an essential part of many organizations, emphasizing a company culture built on relationships. However, it can be difficult to connect remote teams when they aren’t physically working together. For the foreseeable future, at least, team building has to be done remotely… or not take place at all. .

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Presenting 15 Effective Tips for a Smooth Employee Onboarding Process

HR Digest

They need to understand the role, the company’s guidelines for performing that role, the clients and customers affected by that role, the many colleagues they need to work with in order to get everything they need for the role, etc. Help new employees feel welcome and part of the team by organizing team-building activities or social events.

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What comes next for EX: How people teams build on successful immediate responses to COVID-19

Qualtrics HR

And that it’s in line with both employee expectations, societal expectations and legal/national guidelines. It also presents opportunities to build on increased engagement formed during the ‘React’ stage of the crisis. Is it sufficiently safe? An ongoing two-way dialogue not only shows duty of care and improves decision-making.

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Virtual Collaboration: The Team that Slacks Together, Stays Together

HR Digest

Challenges of Remote Work on Team Collaboration One of the most significant challenges of virtual work is the lack of face-to-face interaction. When team members are working remotely, they miss out on the nonverbal cues and other forms of digital communication that are present in face-to-face interactions.