WLP280 Mindful Teamwork and Collaboration

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From Virtual Not Distant in London (</span><a href="https://virtualnotdistant.com"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://virtualnotdistant.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">), today’s episode explores the use of the office and other environments for deliberate and mindful work in teams. We are joined by Justin Morris, Senior Customer Success Manager - Modern Communications, at Microsoft.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We discuss ‘reopening anxiety’, onboarding during lockdown, courageous and flexible leadership, and Microsoft’s 3 pillar frameworkof</span> <strong>people, place and process</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The right policies, underpinned by the right cloud-based technology, can make this work for everyone - but it requires an agile and experimental approach.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Mindful teamwork</strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">is the way Justin describes it, and being able to nurture ideas from the spark to production means involving the right people at the right time. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our in-house</span> <strong>Visible Teamwork</strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">framework structures this concept around a set of principles and practices which work effectively in long-term distributed teams, so here’s a quick reminder of the </span></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><strong>Deliberate communication</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">- passing on the right information in the right way, from availability to ideas to soliciting input and sharing news. How and where do we share each kind of information, at the right time, and with the right people?</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><strong>Work visibility -</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">from project management tools and dashboards to collaborative documents, we need ways (appropriate to what we do), to share what we’re