5 Tips to Help the Team Look Ahead

We’ve often talked about the gains of the pandemic - the proven POC of WFH, the open dialogue, the focus on the team and Psychological Safety and so on. Yesterday, we were saying, as team leaders and leaders in general, we need to make these intangible theoretical wins a clear list of tangibles to the team and here are some ways in which you can do that. 

In today’s video we mention some of the points that we would like leaders to make to their teams:

https://youtu.be/0XRm_k51bYg

1. Outline and celebrate how you’ve become Agile virtually overnight. As we said in yesterday’s article, the flexibility the segmenting of work, the implicit sprints and the ability to work with uncertainty have all become part of everyone’s wheelhouse whether they realise it or not;
2. Reinforce WFH -or at least Hybrid- is here to stay and that what we’ve been doing in the past year is not WFH as it will be going forward as it has been mired with having to adjust, homeschooling and so many other hardships whereas “in times of peace” it will be so much easier and more pleasant;
3. Show how the dialogue has changed. How much more open, honest and caring we are about HumanDebt? both at society and at an organisational level;
4. Remind your team to be grateful for the clear path out and the fact that science has responded as clearly and ultimately rapidly as it has, in the form of the vaccine;
5. Research together what economic resurgence we are expecting judging by what analysts predict when they compare the current situation with any other major crisis is in history, so that the entire team builds a clear picture as to why they ought to be excited about the future. 

These can and should all be done by setting aside time in either Team Re-Launches or Courage Hackathon with your team as per our Dashboard’s Playbook to help the team look forward with confidence and excitement.

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Don't send your teams home with a laptop, a Jira and Slack account and a prayer!

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If you work in a company which has announced a move to Permanent Remote or Permanent Hybrid get in touch as these are the hands-on pieces of support we are offering to remove some of the mental and practical blockers that stop team productivity and performance:

• 2 months use of our Psychological Safety Team Dashboard software license free that comes with
• A Playbook containing examples of people interventions and team actions that any team can use to see better data in their team dashboard;
• 1 x free “What is Psychological Safety and Impression Management?” live cross-company webinar/training course;
• Free buy-in help: if you’re a team leader - help to map and present it to the organisation- if you’re HR, L&D, Tech, Ops, etc - help presenting it to the leadership team and building a business case
• Free Certification/course for your internal Coaches

Get in touch at www.psychologicalsafety.works or reach out at [email protected] and let's help your teams become Psychologically Safe, healthy, happy and highly performant.