For those of you who are reading our blog for the first time, we are on a mission to help people stay connected with their workplace in the hybrid era. I will not waste your time with the stats of how many people want to work from home or prefer hybrid work arrangements. We have been missing and will keep missing many opportunities to meet our colleagues and have random conversations.
Recently I came to read the book Atomic Habits by James Clear, if you haven’t read I would highly recommend it. To make anything a habit there are some very good techniques discussed in this book. Inspired by this book, I have decided that we should give LetsConnectIn roulette a specific time and place to happen.
Today LetsConnectIn roulette matches a user with someone random in their organization. LetsConnectIn app sends an email to both users and asks them to connect. We have plans to integrate users' calendars, and create a placeholder on their calendars. With more than 2 decades of experience working for all sizes of employers, I know one thing for sure…most calendars are a mess. It's impossible to find time on many people's calendars unless you try weeks in advance.
To make a habit stick you need to define a place and time. If finding time is hard on calendars, what are our options? What if we have a defined time, it's the same time every week across all of the USA. Tuesdays @ 4 PM EST, we will block 20 mins to meet someone new in our organization. We have saved a lot of commute time in this hybrid world, let's use 20 mins of that savings in connecting to our organizations. We need that social capital reserves to get things done.
LetsConnectIn.com helps people stay connected in a hybrid workplace. To learn more about how LetConnectIn works, click this link. If you have any questions please contact us here.
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