Face-to-face Even When You’re Not
For most of us, our current collective situation is definitely new and decidedly not normal. Travel restrictions, capacity restrictions, and work-from-home mandates have made even the most casual face-to-face collaborations webcam-to-webcam at best, and an avalanche of email, IM, DM, calendar, and meeting request notifications at worst.
But with all this digitalized engagement, are your people really, well, engaged?
The answer begins with you. Now is not the time to huddle behind virtual closed doors and leave your team guessing about what’s next. Keeping everyone up to speed about what is changing, why it’s changing, how it’s changing, and what their roles are in bringing said change to life is critical for your people and your company’s performance.
Keeping all involved actually involved is possible with Root’s proven digital-based approaches. Created to stimulate your people both intellectually and emotionally, our virtual methods – combined with the Root Change Process® – make sure your people continue working well together to face new challenges head on and bring about successful change. And let you keep them in the loop regardless of where in the world they are.
Making Digital and Virtual Experiences Rewarding
Is it possible to regroup, retrench, and refocus without slowing down? Would we even ask such a question if the answer wasn’t yes? The key is to keep your people connected to your rapidly changing strategies regardless of their current locations (or affinity for sweatpants).
Not being face-to-face is no excuse for ignoring the proven principals for engaging, interactive and (not so humble brag) excellent experiences. Coupling those principals with a heavy dose of meaningful content is what moves your strategic shifts from virtual to tangible.
And the keys to those keys can be unlocked in the creative methods below:
- Virtual Conferences, Events and Workshops:
Instead of canceling or postponing live events or seminars, move them online. Whether it’s a one-time webinar or series of continuing episodes, it’s possible to take the same dynamic content of in-person efforts – like two-way dialogue, role-playing, and scenario-based learning – and bring it to life virtually using panel discussions, breakout sessions, and group activities. We won't forget the all-important networking session. - Digital Root Learning Map® Experiences:
If Google (and Apple and Garmin and others) can make maps digitally, so can we. Our Root Learning Map® Experience for online group or individual delivery – engaging your people to explore big-picture realities, strategic priorities, process changes, financial literacy, or customer experiences and come out on the other side with new insights, goals, and plans of action. - Interactive Webinars and Remote Meetings:
Yes, “interactive webinar” sounds so very 1999, but stay with us. Instead of just taking a one-sided lecture online, create more engaging, dynamic and connected experiences that bring strategic priorities to life and prove to your people that you value their voices as much as your own. - Film, Infographics, and Comics:
Yes, we said comics. But really, we mean you should use any and every form of storytelling that can create emotional connections between people and your strategies and between people and each other. Connections that are especially important during these days of remote working. - Microlearning and Simulations:
The brain is technically an organ, but to keep it sharp you need to treat it like a muscle. See what we did there? Anyway, keep your people’s noggins nimble with quick shots of cerebral stimulation via filmed, animated, and interactive bits of education. Then let them flex their newfound skills with choose-your-own-adventure-style scenarios that resonate in the real world. - Podcasts:
Know what’s better than a company-wide email blast with the latest updates? A thoughtful, entertaining, pull-the-curtain-back (just a little) podcast that explores the stories behind your strategic priorities. But make it a regular series, because doing it once is just kind of weird. - Virtual Research and Assessments:
Digital data gathering means you never have to pause your progress while waiting to gather insights from the front lines. From video interviews to digital ethnography to virtual focus groups, our cost- and time-efficient methods allow us to dig quickly and dig often, uncovering how your people really feel about what’s going on in the organization. All while making them feel more connected to it even as they remain working from home.
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In the time it takes to watch another compilation of Zoom fails, you could be bursting with ways to make the future fantastic.