From the course: Building Connection and Engagement in Virtual Teams

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Reconnect to the wider organization

Reconnect to the wider organization

From the course: Building Connection and Engagement in Virtual Teams

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Reconnect to the wider organization

- If the physical office is no longer a factor, neither are the barriers that are previously instated. Office walls, partitions, floors, the playing field has been leveled. And if you and your team are willing to be a bit more intentional about making connections with people in the wider organization, even across distance, status, and level, you might just find that looking outward in your organization has never been easier. Now, this is important in organizations where collaboration across teams is high up on the agenda but even if your team has no current need to collaborate across the organization, looking outward still has direct implications for both individual and team engagement. That's because when we're part of something bigger than us, we all have a basic need to understand it and our role in it. Up to now organizations have relied heavily on the use of physical space to communicate cues about what the…

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