Knobull Research Finds The Keys To Remote Working Success

BOSTON - Dec. 28, 2023 - PRLog -- Lynn Bentley, the President of Knobull explained, "The three ideas from Knobull research with the biggest impact have been:

1.The importance of navigating remote vs. in-person challenges.

2.Aligning core focus and values - especially in mergers and acquisitions.

3.Making the current best thinking approach personal."

Navigate remote vs. in-person challenges as an employees are onboarding into a new role

The Knobull team waded into the emotionally complex debate over in-person versus remote work. It's clear that remote work is here to stay and that all need to be deliberate about how they engage with individuals working live.

This is true for all already in their roles and especially for those onboarding into new roles.

Meet your new colleagues where they are first. Converge into their ways of working as you focus on building relationships in your early days:

• Make your virtual meetings work better with more deliberate and detailed content, meeting flows, and technology planning, preparation and rehearsals.
• Utilize more pre-reads to share information and context.
• Avoid blending meetings, having all in the same room or all virtual – and the closer to one-on-one, the better.

Align core focus and values in mergers and acquisitions

All organizations design, produce, sell, deliver, and service. The most successful over time understand their core focus and align everything around it. A fundamental building-block in building and strengthening a team is shared values.

Core focus includes:

• For design-focused organizations: it's likely innovation
• For production-focused: accountability
• For delivery-focused: collaboration
• For service-focused: customer-centricity

Make the current best thinking approach personal

Just as every organization is perfectly designed to deliver the results it's currently delivering, each of us has a set of talents, knowledge, skills, experience.

This can be done only by fusing a healthy appreciation of and self-confidence in that current best you with the balancing of humility and vulnerability required to be open to others.

Bentley concluded, "Whether it's remote or in person, ground yourself and your team in the right values and continually ratchet up the current best you!"