1:1 meetings with new hires are a very effective way for them to get to know their colleagues.

Sharing a meal with your new team-mate can make them feel welcome to the team. Use this as a regular onboarding pattern.

Silent meetings can better leverage the ideas, perspectives, and insights of your team. They’ll not just help improve your meetings, you’ll also see better ideas and solutions emerge.

If you reduce unnecessary meetings, you can use the time savings to build relationships with your team mates.

Compose your thought but schedule the message to go out when you expect the recipient(s) to be at work.

Don’t pressure people or get pressured into responding to an email the moment they/you see it.

Think retro as a process that has two parts - take inputs asynchronously and run it synchronously.

Arguments on chat don’t help. Take a deep breath and slow things down.

Complex topics need time to understand and to engage with. WUCA outlines a team approach to deal with complex discussions.

Identify your team values using a short, one hour workshop. By the end of this exercise, you’ll have a list of values and rough notes about what they mean to you.

Distributed agile needs a shift-left to move from a fully synchronous medium to a fully asynchronous medium.

Asynchronous work is a means to an end: an end that wholly synchronous ways of working cannot achieve.