How to Thrive in a Period of Peak Collaboration
Meeting Hours and Number of Close Collaborators Are Climbing

How to Thrive in a Period of Peak Collaboration

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Hello!  

If you feel like your calendar is out of control right now, you’re not alone.  Meeting makers didn’t get the memo that it’s summertime and the livin’ is (supposed to be) easy.

We’re in a period of Peak Collaboration.  Here’s how you can help yourself and your team navigate the “activity avalanche.”

  • Understanding the New Shape of Your Day
  • How Distributed Teams Win 
  •  Guest Post:  The Role of Workplace Analytics in Hybrid Work

 — Catherine


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What You Need to Know About the New Shape of Your Day 

If you’ve recently returned to the office, I’m betting your calendar has gotten a lot more crowded.  

Regardless of whether you’re in-office full time or you’re on a hybrid schedule, RTO has changed the Shape of Your Day – and I’m not just talking about your commute.  

Here’s what you need to know to fend off meeting bloat.  

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Shape of the Day: Onsite Anchor Days vs Non-Anchor Days

COLLABORATION PATTERNS

Reducing Friction at Work with ONA

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PRODUCTIVITY

How Distributed Teams Win

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Impact of Synchronous Collaboration on Focus Time

We’re all trying to do more with less.  Get more done in less time.  Get more done with fewer people. 

The single biggest thing that you can do to increase the productivity of your team is to shift the majority of your work to asynchronous collaboration. 

Here’s how the best teams do it.


HYBRID WORK

The Role of Workplace Analytics in Hybrid Work

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We’re seeing a lot of stubbed toes as teams try to figure out a new hybrid work model.  From too many meetings to too few phone booths, people are telling us that they feel more productive at home.

We invited the team at Robin to write a guest post on how you can use analytics insights to power a frictionless hybrid workplace experience. 

Here are their top tips.

Thanks for sharing! We're always down to talk about workplace trends 📈

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The episode with Philip Arkcoll was so much fun, thanks for sharing it in your newsletter Worklytics! 👏

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