Jen Dalton of Brand Mirror: Five Things You Need To Be A Highly Effective Leader During Turbulent Times
Rethink how to collaborate and drive creativity in a virtual environment. For leaders, consider checking on what collaborating could look like in a virtual world. A first step could be to train your team on how to show up in a virtual world — coach them on presence, lighting, getting comfortable on screen. When it comes to meetings, keep them focused and potentially shorter. It is important to allow people the opportunity to engage and not just be a talking head. Maybe an hour meeting every week becomes 15 minutes twice a week and is more of a round-robin check-in. It is critical to set rules that include video must be on and no multi-tasking (however this is likely only possible if meetings are being run efficiently). A key action for leaders when it comes to collaboration is to…
