Ongoing messages and communication
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 3:18 am
Visible what others are doing
Short exchanges of information, coordination
Transfer information
Open to people working on related tasks
A digital hive therefore looks like a steady stream of messages. People don't always have to watch and read, but working out loud (actively sharing what you are doing) in such a message stream ensures that people can more easily be aware of what is happening around them, so that they can participate when necessary.
Digital tools like Teams, Slack and Workplace all mimic this well, but it's important not to make the 'membership' of such a message stream too broad, because one person's 'noise' is another person's noise when they're working on another task.
Quickly walking to someone's desk with a question is, for example, in such an environment, ad-hoc screen sharing and then switching from text to speech and/or image, without having to schedule a video conference. And that is invaluable.
2. Huddles
The huddle or cluster is about working together in small teams where everyone focuses on one common task. Think of it as a special project room or an operating room, where everything is set up to work together on that one task. While people work together in one hive, they can be active in different huddles during the week.
Joint picture of tasks and their status
Only members participate
The simplest form of a digital huddle belgium telegram data is a (private) and permanent collaboration space: think of a, er… team for Microsoft Teams, or a channel for Slack. Such a space should go beyond ‘just’ chat and also provide access to documents and status or progress tracking. For example, by highlighting or pinning important documents.
Also read: Hybrid collaboration & meetings: can it be done differently?
Photo of American football players in consultation (a huddle)
But you can also think of an advanced control center. For example, in the form of a big dashboard that everyone can see. Most chat-based tools are not very good at structuring the information display. So you can think of putting that information in an enterprise front by – we talked about that in one of our previous articles – adding it to the huddle, so that you can put charts and important information on a published page.
Short exchanges of information, coordination
Transfer information
Open to people working on related tasks
A digital hive therefore looks like a steady stream of messages. People don't always have to watch and read, but working out loud (actively sharing what you are doing) in such a message stream ensures that people can more easily be aware of what is happening around them, so that they can participate when necessary.
Digital tools like Teams, Slack and Workplace all mimic this well, but it's important not to make the 'membership' of such a message stream too broad, because one person's 'noise' is another person's noise when they're working on another task.
Quickly walking to someone's desk with a question is, for example, in such an environment, ad-hoc screen sharing and then switching from text to speech and/or image, without having to schedule a video conference. And that is invaluable.
2. Huddles
The huddle or cluster is about working together in small teams where everyone focuses on one common task. Think of it as a special project room or an operating room, where everything is set up to work together on that one task. While people work together in one hive, they can be active in different huddles during the week.
Joint picture of tasks and their status
Only members participate
The simplest form of a digital huddle belgium telegram data is a (private) and permanent collaboration space: think of a, er… team for Microsoft Teams, or a channel for Slack. Such a space should go beyond ‘just’ chat and also provide access to documents and status or progress tracking. For example, by highlighting or pinning important documents.
Also read: Hybrid collaboration & meetings: can it be done differently?
Photo of American football players in consultation (a huddle)
But you can also think of an advanced control center. For example, in the form of a big dashboard that everyone can see. Most chat-based tools are not very good at structuring the information display. So you can think of putting that information in an enterprise front by – we talked about that in one of our previous articles – adding it to the huddle, so that you can put charts and important information on a published page.