What happens when a team moves from a meeting-centric culture, to a writing-centric way of working? Snehal Wajpe believes that this “async-first” approach has helped her team unleash new synergies.

Execs rarely have the “luxury” of uninterrupted four-hour chunks where they can do deep work, because there’s always a meeting to go to. But should we normalise this problem? Nag says, we must instead problematise the normal.

Priya Darshini and her team, had always practiced software development, in a colocated fashion. When they moved to a remote way of working, their tried and trusted collaboration patterns needed an async-first twist. This article chronicles her team’s journey of tiny steps to be more async.

Some big problems have delightfully simple solutions. They may not be the magic fix you need, but they can help you get a wee bit forward. If your team environment is feeling a bit “meh”, then consider these tiny bits of advice that Amy Luckey has for you. They’ll help you build connection, one step at a time.

Feedback is a gift which some of us are very generous with. Naji recently wrote an article about giving feedback asynchronously. But it’s equally important for us to ask for, receive and process async feedback in the right way. The lack of facial and audio cues that we use in face-to-face and Zoom meetings can make this challenging. This post will help you learn how to receive feedback asynchronously.

Remote leadership is all about intention and attention. Amy and I have been discussing this idea at length when we chat. You can’t leave things on auto-pilot anymore as you did when you were in the office. And that’s a good thing. In this post, Amy draws our attention to three sets of micro-moves that can make teams effective. All you need to bring to the table is intention and attention.

In the pre-pandemic world, we’d share almost all feedback in a synchronous fashion; either in-person or over a call. In the new normal, an asynchronous alternative can be more effective and timely. Mohamed Najiullah shares his advice on how you can give your colleagues effective feedback in writing.

The world of work is seeking answers for what a post-pandemic operating model will look like. Amy Luckey believes that the answers will come from an agile mindset. In this post, she describes how two common practices from agile teams can also help organisations and teams across industry discover what'll work for them and what may not. When you use these practices in tandem, you'll build a self-healing mechanism so your teams can course correct when they have to.

Amy Luckey has been an advisor to business leaders, mid-level managers and team members navigating the landscape of distributed teams. She believes that when working in distributed teams, an agile mindset is the killer app. One of being agile, over doing agile. In this post she lists out six characteristics of the teams that are and will be successful in the future of work.

Looks like meetings are missing the mark. Not to mention, synchronous meetings aren’t a reliable way to communicate across multiple time zones and geographic locations. Luckily, live syncs aren’t the only way to touch base with your distributed team and understand how work is progressing day-to-day. This is where async standups can help. Dan Pupius, co-founder and CEO of Range.co explains how he’s building a product to do just that.