Personal Maps from Management 3.0

What are Personal Maps?

Personal map is getting to know more about your colleagues who we work with on day-to-day basis. Our team is remote mostly situation, either work from home or part of the team working in different office or the other part is still working from base. This is a difficult time we are in and how do we have empathy on others is a big question, most of the times we don’t know what they are up to or what the situation is or time zone they are in.

I am strong believer in building trust in the team which in turn builds better team members and trust doesn’t comes very easily for any team. Personal maps come in handy in the situation like this and useful for distributed team to know each other well apart from work. Personal maps give a way to link people’s familiar or similar interest which we wouldn’t know in the past to tell a story. “Ah, I am a big fan of Harry Potter too” moments click on when we do personal maps. After personal maps team’s momentum goes up purely due to the connection they see in others.

Facilitation of this is simple an online tool of your chose if the team is distributed or if you are in-house whiteboard session with lot of creativity. The next question is what we need to do now and how long will it be. Time for this exercise I took was 1 hour and the exercise is simple like exploration of common grounds.

Step 1: The first step in this process was to ask people’s permission are they ok to share their information some might be personal while…