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Communicating with your team members
- Use If you're sending especially important information, use more than one method of communication to make sure you're reaching all members. Not everyone checks Slack- some people might check their emails more often. If You don't have to send every message through email and Slack but in the following cases, using more than one method is good:
- It's the beginning of the year, and you're
- getting everyone oriented/emailing important information
- You're giving information about how to get a respirator.
- You need a lot of hands for a certain task, like doing a layup or integrating a part.
- You're organizing a social event and are letting people know where/when it is.
- Organize weekly meetings and make sure as many of your members as possible can come. Whenisgood is a good way of getting people's availabilities.
- If someone is lagging behind on a task, focus on what you can do to help them rather than the fact that they haven't completed a task yet. Using this approach shows that you care about them, and is more likely to get results, rather than creating more stress for them. Being understanding is an important method of teaching team members to be more comfortable reaching out to you to ask for help.
- On the other hand, if someone has consistently failed to get a task done, you can reassign it to someone AFTER communicating with the person.
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