Power of random interactions
Word on the street, offices are going to open up very soon. Many companies have started opening the doors for their executives and are on-track to complete their plans to bring back employees into offices. That is very exciting news to be again in a collaborative space and have in person interactions. One change is definitely going to be normal, that is working from home. Most organizations will provide this option for the foreseeable future, as a perk and to attract and retain talent. Welcome to the next normal which is still under planning, no one knows the long term impacts…
It’s good that many of us will have the opportunity to have some face to face interactions soon. After all, we are social beings. We need those interactions not only to get things done but also for maintaining healthy relationships with people we spend a good chunk of our lives with. Most of us will get to see our immediate team members on a frequent basis, at the same time we will not get to see most of our teammates at organizational level. We will have less opportunities to meet the newcomers. It will be hard for the newcomers to learn about other teams within their organization and build relationships outside their immediate team. We will start forgetting faces that we have not seen in a while, we will have some awkward moments.
This will become a problem to build and maintain organizational social capital. Let us go back 15 months to early 2020. How were we building and maintaining these relationships with our broader teammates. RANDOM INTERACTIONS!! We did not have to pay attention then because we had hallways, coffee breaks, cafes, social events, and lets not forget our favorite meetings. Just look at your work buddies list. How did you meet them? How will you meet your new buddies, as we will have less of these interactions in the new normal?
We have some opportunities to handle this situation. We at LetsConnectIn.com have come up with a way to automate these interactions. We are providing a platform for individuals and teams to come together as an organization and create random interactions. We are keeping it simple and random. Keeping it random reduces chance for bias and increases chance to meet diverse individuals as one would in the pre-COVID world. Randomness will increase the inclusiveness of your organizations.
Lets keep it simple, let’s keep it random, let’s connect in! Please visit our site LetsConnectIn and reach out to us at https://www.letsconnectin.com/contact
Originally published at https://connectinapp.blogspot.com.
