If you, like many people across the world, are now working 100% remotely, you might be worried about the loss of physical face to face time with your team members. Remote collaboration tools help us to compensate this loss  allowing regular communication throughout the teleworking day. Yet it seems that a high frequency of team communication could actually reduce collective intelligence.

The worldwide health crisis we are going through is undeniably changing our habits and our relationship to work. The year 2020 gave many of us time for reflection and introspection. Giving meaning to what we do is an essentiel condition for our fulfilment and well-being and more than ever relevant in a complex and uncertain professional (VUCA) environment. As long as we know why we do something and what do we do it for, we get better results and become less sensitive to stress.

Your listening skills have a major impact on the effectiveness of your teleworking and the quality of your virtual relationships with others.

We listen to get information, to understand, to learn, influence, persuade and negotiate.

A few tips for active listening:

Pay Attention

Give the speaker your full attention, and acknowledge the message.

Look at the speaker directly through the camera.
Put aside distracting thoughts.
Avoid being distracted by environmental factors