Community Tip Jar: Working Remote and Connecting With Your Teams
The last few weeks a lot of industries and offices have been learning what it means to be pivot fast and suddenly move from the normal cadence of working face to face in an office to working remote. This means juggling all your tools like chat, email, and video calls to still stay connected while also working on having the right space set aside at home to help you focus and flourish. For me it has also been a bit about making sure to unplug my eyes and my brain a bit as so much time inside has meant a lot of screen time both on and off the work schedule.
For this month for our Community Tip Jar we are going to shift a bit from just technical Quick Base best practices to also look for the communities great ideas to help with working from home and keeping a team connected. This can also include making sure your team still feels connected and plugged in with so many things jumping for their attention. There is no specific requirements to include a Quick Base tip or advice, this could be everything from ideas to help organize your home work space, to ways to communicate and set expectations, to even advice for helping to keep that all important balance. So lets kick off this March's Community Tip Jar with awesome advice from you are community on working from home.
Zoom Time Checkins
One thing I've been trying to make sure I do from time to time is check in with the people I usually get to see and work with in the office. Whether this is finding a quick 15 minutes in the morning to say hello and compare calendars and priorities or grab lunch with someone and chat about ideas. To help make sure I'm talking to people outside of my own home and checking in with those people I'm so used to getting to see face to face I've been fitting in short zoom calls and for lunches even just setting up a zoom room on a random day of the week and inviting a group of my coworkers to drop in and say hi, touch base and ask any questions.
Question of the Day
Another random way to touch base with your coworkers and get to connect with others if you are finding yourself a little cooped up at home is to create a question of the day or riddle of day. In office we have had a long running tradition of animal based jokes or riddles going up on a whiteboard in the morning. For now instead I've spun up a quick little question of the day app to have people drop in and share their thoughts on a new topic each day, including ones that were suggested by the participants. The last few have also been on hobbies and media that people like so as a bonus I've been able to add a new tv show to watch and a few new songs to my playlist to help me get pumped while I'm heads down working suggested by my coworkers.
I can't wait to hear your tips and tricks for working from home and keeping your teams cohesive and connected during all this change.
------------------------------
Evan Martinez
Community Marketing Manager
Quick Base
------------------------------
For this month for our Community Tip Jar we are going to shift a bit from just technical Quick Base best practices to also look for the communities great ideas to help with working from home and keeping a team connected. This can also include making sure your team still feels connected and plugged in with so many things jumping for their attention. There is no specific requirements to include a Quick Base tip or advice, this could be everything from ideas to help organize your home work space, to ways to communicate and set expectations, to even advice for helping to keep that all important balance. So lets kick off this March's Community Tip Jar with awesome advice from you are community on working from home.
Zoom Time Checkins
One thing I've been trying to make sure I do from time to time is check in with the people I usually get to see and work with in the office. Whether this is finding a quick 15 minutes in the morning to say hello and compare calendars and priorities or grab lunch with someone and chat about ideas. To help make sure I'm talking to people outside of my own home and checking in with those people I'm so used to getting to see face to face I've been fitting in short zoom calls and for lunches even just setting up a zoom room on a random day of the week and inviting a group of my coworkers to drop in and say hi, touch base and ask any questions.
Question of the Day
Another random way to touch base with your coworkers and get to connect with others if you are finding yourself a little cooped up at home is to create a question of the day or riddle of day. In office we have had a long running tradition of animal based jokes or riddles going up on a whiteboard in the morning. For now instead I've spun up a quick little question of the day app to have people drop in and share their thoughts on a new topic each day, including ones that were suggested by the participants. The last few have also been on hobbies and media that people like so as a bonus I've been able to add a new tv show to watch and a few new songs to my playlist to help me get pumped while I'm heads down working suggested by my coworkers.
I can't wait to hear your tips and tricks for working from home and keeping your teams cohesive and connected during all this change.
------------------------------
Evan Martinez
Community Marketing Manager
Quick Base
------------------------------
