SAPIENS for Employees

Understand why communication challenges increase in a remote, hybrid and distributed environments and how to adapt this critical aspect to the new normal.

Understand the critical role played by Non-Verbal Communications and how NVC gets negatively impacted in remote, hybrid and distributed environments.

Study communication best practices - the what and the why.

From data creation and storage to file access, we study the questions that matter for ensuring smooth, consistent and sustainable collaboration in real world circumstances.

Collaboration works best only when supported by good coordination practices across employees.

The calendar is the central playground and the starting point for coordination and collaboration. Let's review how we make the best use of calendars. Hint, it's much (much) more than dates :)

We discuss the importance and the impact of human connection in remote, hybrid and distributed teams.

Meetings are important. And not all need to be about work. Some need to be dedicated to closing the gaps in what humans each need and seek.

Jackstien Practices introduces Virtual Team Activity Meetings. To maximize team success, human connection needs to be boosted with "executive trust".

Like Work-Free Team Meetings, but also nothing like Work Free Team Meetings, V-TAMs are a special breed of meetings.

Specially formulated by researchers and experts at Jackstien Practices, get familiar with the two types of V-TAMs as we discuss what employees can expect, including the Defens-Shift, where getting thrown out the window is a requirement :)

The rare in-person meetings need to be deliberate, pointed but comfortable, to ensure there is value.

Video Conferencing Fatigue, popularly called Zoom Fatigue, is caused by specific factors.

Understand the cause and effect so that we can best utilize the benefits of video conferences and reduce the negative impact.

Water-Cooler conversations, originally used in a different context, have become a stand-in term for Serendipitous Cross Connections (or SCC).

Many feel that SCC form a key part of the human experience on premise.

Working from home or living at work.

An old joke that often doesn't feel funny.

Let's understand what to balance, integrate or separate.

Two aspects dictate our ability to work remotely and how we preserve it.

Your health, productivity, mental state, work quality and the quality of life have a heavily intertwined relationship.

Let's review how your working environment affects these aspects and how to structure your environment to maximize benefits.

It would be a pity if the positive benefits from lack of a commute were again lost to bad working environment and set-ups.

The negative impact on health, well-being and productivity can be avoided.

Prevent the 'vicious circles', with these practices for your back, neck, limbs and eyes.

There is an old saying with truth to it - "A Place for Everything and Everything In It’s Place."

Let’s review why it's not longer easy to follow this rule, even as it remains just as important. And discuss all the things we can do about it.

You can't back-slap, give a thumbs-up or holler out to someone on a floor or corridor.

To ensure recognition does not become an unfortunate casualty of a remote, hybrid or distributed structire, we discuss practices to be followed in different environments.

We discuss the directed efforts required to establish Mentor-Mentee relationships in a remote, hybrid or distributed environment and how employees can best leverage this critical relationship.