Sometimes being in a group is not easy, and it’s even harder now with all this pandemic going on and having to work with people who you’ve never met and don’t know. So here are a few things that you can do, to improve your team’s work inclusivity and in-turn, overall productivity.
- Establish when you want and what you expect from them
- DO tell your teammates you expect something to be done by a certain time.
- DO tell your teammates they’re not living up to your expectations when they fail.
- DO NOT take it personally when your teammate doesn’t want to hear your excuses.
- We all need to understand that in this environment we are trying to teach one another and train one another for the work that all of us will be doing after college.
- Schedule a one hour one on one with a team member once a week.
- This is NOT a standup.
- This is NOT a meeting where you demand preperation and pressure them on their due tasks.
- This is a meeting where you can get to know your teammate, talk to your teammate about the project, and see if he or she is having any holds.
- Or when there is nothing to be discussed, you can both use this time to just work on the project.
- This meeting IS the time when you can help them on the things that they are stuck, or they can help you. Some people do this in group standup and it is honestly the most annoying thing ever.
- Inspire your teammates to work harder
- How? Step 1, DO YOUR PART EARLY. I don’t know how many times in the past when I see the nobody has started the paper, then I’ll feel lazy too. NO MORE!
- Create multiple tasks that are detailed with instructions and easy to complete, rather than a big obscure one.
- Show them that they’re not alone, that’s you are all working hard together.