Enabling Diverse Teams To Flourish
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Establishing Team Agreements and Distributed Collaboration Infrastructure
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Improving Engagement & Attentiveness During Virtual Meetings
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COVID-19 has forced many organizations to transition their practices to fit the new remote work normal. Beyond this hopefully once in a lifetime extreme, the workplace of the future will include more remote work. Allowing increased flexibility has shown an increase in productivity, higher retention, more employee satisfaction, and an access to a broader and more diverse talent pool, to name a few benefits for organizations.
However, a successful long-term transition to more flexible and remote work processes requires a strong foundation and best practices to support the team and allow each employee to do their best work, even from home. Beyond the ability to use video conferencing platforms, the main challenges organizations face are to keep remote actors engaged, have access to information when needed, do creative work, and foster a sense of community. We support organizations to overcome those hurdles by providing assessments of areas for development and creating recommendations on how to:
Dr. Maria Kinslow has worked successfully with teams across space, time, and culture boundaries to improve their virtual collaboration behaviors and highlight opportunities for team growth.
Current Clients Reviews:
Glenn E. Singleton, Founder & President, Courageous Conversation:
“Over the past 28 years, the Courageous Conversation Enterprise has operated globally in roughly 75 Locations across 10 countries. We have developed proficiency in training and consulting over distance. Dr. Maria Kinslow, in a single 90-minute seminar, was able to identify and highlight gaps in our work processes and transform my team’s understanding of effective remote collaboration. Dr. Kinslow provided a robust set of recommendations for dramatically improving our internal processes. Her work has excited my leadership team and inspired us to elevate our collaboration and team productivity to the next level. “
Paul A, Young, Director, Division of Housing & Community Development City of Memphis, TN
“The City of Memphis engaged Gemini Energy Solutions, LLC to coordinate engagement of a diverse range of stakeholders towards the development of a workforce training program. The stakeholders each had their individual interests for such a program, and the Gemini team was able to lead a process that ensured all groups interests were represented while leading towards a common program design that met the needs of the City. The knowledge, emotional intelligence, and communication skills of the Gemini team was key to our success in advancing the civic dialogue around this program to the next level. “
However, a successful long-term transition to more flexible and remote work processes requires a strong foundation and best practices to support the team and allow each employee to do their best work, even from home. Beyond the ability to use video conferencing platforms, the main challenges organizations face are to keep remote actors engaged, have access to information when needed, do creative work, and foster a sense of community. We support organizations to overcome those hurdles by providing assessments of areas for development and creating recommendations on how to:
- Develop and implement norms of engagement
- Solidify knowledge management structures and accessibility of internal information
- Instill team spirit and a community of colleagues over distance
- Implement best practices to keep employees and external partners engaged during remote interaction
- Find solutions for creative work needs
- Improve stakeholder engagement
Dr. Maria Kinslow has worked successfully with teams across space, time, and culture boundaries to improve their virtual collaboration behaviors and highlight opportunities for team growth.
Current Clients Reviews:
Glenn E. Singleton, Founder & President, Courageous Conversation:
“Over the past 28 years, the Courageous Conversation Enterprise has operated globally in roughly 75 Locations across 10 countries. We have developed proficiency in training and consulting over distance. Dr. Maria Kinslow, in a single 90-minute seminar, was able to identify and highlight gaps in our work processes and transform my team’s understanding of effective remote collaboration. Dr. Kinslow provided a robust set of recommendations for dramatically improving our internal processes. Her work has excited my leadership team and inspired us to elevate our collaboration and team productivity to the next level. “
Paul A, Young, Director, Division of Housing & Community Development City of Memphis, TN
“The City of Memphis engaged Gemini Energy Solutions, LLC to coordinate engagement of a diverse range of stakeholders towards the development of a workforce training program. The stakeholders each had their individual interests for such a program, and the Gemini team was able to lead a process that ensured all groups interests were represented while leading towards a common program design that met the needs of the City. The knowledge, emotional intelligence, and communication skills of the Gemini team was key to our success in advancing the civic dialogue around this program to the next level. “