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Make time for casual conversations

Make time for casual conversations

- [Instructor] There's a bunch of other more minor tips for Teams, which is one of the downsides that comes up a lot on working from home is the lack of casual conversation. So in particular, walking in and out of meetings. I used to, you know, a person would have noticed I missed the lunches and coffees also, even just in meetings, the first couple of minutes, I turned to colleagues and watercolors discussion. It's hard to perfectly recreate that, but the people have done this best. I've been trying to do this most research groups is to set up a time each week, to talk to each member of our social group. I do it for like 20 minutes. It's a very deliberate, regular one-on-one time. I've heard other managers one manager talking to, you said look, I speak to every member of my team for five minutes at the beginning of each day, just to check in on them. And if I need more time, I spend more time. And the upside about doing this…

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