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Creating context, freedom and autonomy are critical elements for designing effective virtual workspaces of the future.
The shift to a digital workplace provides huge opportunities to re-imagine the digital workspace instead of just recreating the physical workspace. Without the limitation of physical space, there is the opportunity for an entirely new, more transparent paradigm to emerge.
Distributed workforces required high levels of alignment to be effective. Alone in the woods, every private is a general, but you can’t make decisions that are consistent and aligned with the mission unless you know where you should be heading.
The challenge for companies is to create a radical transparency that enables employees to understand the bigger picture and their part in it.
However, in many organisations, there is a plethora of document that provide alternate versions of the truth. It becomes difficult to decern which version of the truth is correct, paralysing employees into inaction.
Instead of designing virtual meeting rooms around calendars and events, design them around operating structure.
When a company’s operating structure closely reflects its strategy, alignment increases and friction between groups decreases due to the improved clarity and reduced conflicting priorities around what teams are trying to achieve.
In a virtual structure such as Berst, you can design a virtual layout that reflects this operating structure. In addition, the ability to attached information and context to a room eliminates the proliferation of documents. Employees are then free to explore relevant information as needed
Berst rooms can be set up at any time and made permanently available. Rooms can also be connected to contextual information such as a Miro boards or google documents, and any other cloud based tool.
Because participants move themselves, employees can freely decide if and when it is appropriate for them to review and discuss relevant content.
The domain based design of the room structure aligns more intuitively with how we think about the way we work, and help employees rapidly find relevant information to the things they want to learn about.
Virtual offices are enabling new ways of interacting. Berst allows you to peek through the window, shout out to everyone in the office and check who has been speaking to encourage inclusion.
The magic of a physical office happens between the meetings, not in them. A virtual office like Berst enables you to create this same magic, simply and intuitively. These 3 tips help you do just that.
Remote working is enabling a new way of learning, the ability to leverage shared, recorded video content, but then to focus on the discussion in the room are enabling a new way of working.
Taking a tutoring business online is simple with a modern virtual office like Berst. With a easily accessible virtual office you can work just like you do in person, but virtually.
Berst is a simple and intuitive virtual office, setup to be the most accessible possible for team members of all cultures, ages or dominations. Accessed from your browser, you can get setup tomorrow.
High Empathy is the key to creating an effective working agreement that helps Distributed Teams succeed. This guide with help you with a step by step approach for doing this.
Berst's Virtual Office is perfectly setup to overcome "Zoom Fatigue". If you are looking to enable a highly engaged remote first workforce, Berst's Virtual Office is designed to help.
Hybrid workshops can be challenging, but there are some simple patterns that work in practice. Understanding this can help you setup your virtual office for success.
Some facilitation approaches like Ritual Dissent are perfect for high performance teams, as it create the space of high quality feedback. Virtual Offices make this even simpler to run.
Contrary to the common advice, it is possible to align multiple teams around OKRs. When using a virtual office you, don't require physical rooms or movement so you can just focus on aligning.
The watercooler moment is one of the things that people feel has been lost in remote working environment, but Everest Engineering use Berst's virtual office to solve this and feel connected as a team.
Low engagement events is the real killer in virtual working environments. These 3 approaches help build engagement while working in virtual or hybrid events.
Workshops can lose their way quickly. It’s a facilitator’s job to note this and react in the moment and adjust on the fly. These two principles will help you stay on track.
Culture codes help set clear expectations about how people work and act. In distributed working environment this can be a key factors in the difference between high and mediocre performance.
Empathy is the key to building an inclusive team, especially in distributed teams when you can't rely on proximity. These 3 simple approaches can help you get off on the right foot.
Effective planning in Agile, allows teams to rapidly make decisions based on all readily available information to create an effective plan. This simple approach helps you do exactly that.
Organisations typically approach creating team alignment by setting and sharing a company vision. But this often falls flat. A Strategy Back-brief enables organisations to bridge the execution gap.