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Work: Tips for working in async teams

Many of our remote professionals have partial timezone overla with their teams.


Some companies see this as a negative, whereas in reality, this can be a positive. Some of us have gotten used to spending 4+ hours per day on Zoom. It makes us feel productive to see our teammates on the other screen, and it becomes our default.


However, is this default productive or healthy?
Teams can actually be more productive when limiting meeting time,
and working asynchronously. Here are some tips. Asynchronous Work - Create definitions and examples:


Define what is asynchronous work for your team. This will include
non-urgent suggestions, questions on non-critical tasks, requests
for input in which you can wait up to 24 hours for a response.
Create a list of sample communications for this and share it with
your team.


Asynchronization: Balancing Proactive & Coherent Communication
Encourage your team to be proactive in their communications so
that items are brought up before they become urgent.


However, also encourage your team to think through their
communication and make it clear. When they have multiple items
that they are explaining over the course of a few hours, they can
group these together and format them so that it is more easily
readable for the rest of the team.


Synchronous Work Channel
Create an “Synchronous” channel in your workspace (Slack, MS
Teams, etc). If something is urgent (major bug), put it in this channel
and @ the person responsible. If it isn’t urgent, then put in other
channel @‘ing the person, and they can check during their
worktime. Make sure to limit the synchronous channel and to call
out when items are added that aren’t urgent.

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