Sharing Information for Team Collaboration in a Remote Workplace

Sharing information for team collaboration is harder in a remote workplace. 75% of employees rank team collaboration as the aspect of work that has suffered the most during work-from-home (Fast Company, 2020).

Our Tip Sheet

Lead with Transparency and Honesty

Your team will mirror your approach to information — whether that is to hold information until a specific moment in time, or to share openly and frequently.

Position Your Strongest Team Members to Succeed

Identify individuals who are naturally adept at sorting information and place them in positions where they have information-sharing responsibility.

Create Opportunities to Bring the Team Together

Create opportunities to bring the team together and share information formally, as well as informally. Informal sharing allows for group vetting of information that can be extremely powerful for your team.

Designate a Clear Process for Vetting Information Internally

Designate a clear process for vetting information internally that matches the risk threshold of the organization. Clarify with your team what the certainty of information must be before action is taken and how you arrive at that point.

Shine a Spotlight on Moments of Great Information Management

Take a moment to figure out what went right, and use that information to problem-solve during moments of information management difficulty.

How We Can Help: Training Modules

We offer training module packages designed to help individuals practice the fundamentals of information management. Through engaging with these validated training modules, individuals can see their performance within the real world improve significantly.

Each training module contains a scenario that has elements of information management — information acquisition, vetting, and sharing. The module helps participants think through a variety of actions they can take with each element and the consequences of those actions. Through this immersive gameplay, participants are coached through best practices and outcomes. Over time, this process of how to approach information becomes part of a participant’s real-world approach.

Training modules can be deployed online, over email, or over text. You can review our training results, or reach out to us with any questions you may have.