06/11/2020

How to Help Your Remote Team Stay Connected

A successful virtual working relationship has good cadence

Even though states are starting to reopen, most experts are recommending continued social distancing practices and that organizations allow a portion of the workforce to still work remote. So, if employees will continue to work from home, it’s crucial that they work together well.

Blake Ashforth, a professor at Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business, coauthored a study on remote worker relationships and offered advice on how to ensure your association’s virtual workforce hums along as well as when they were collaborating in-person. A successful virtual working relationship has good cadence, Ashforth said.

“It had two major dimensions: a temporal rhythm—where you knew when you were going to interact, how long, that the person was there, and how to interact,” he said. “The second was knowing something about them as individuals.”

Please select this link to read the complete article from Associations Now.