To navigate the realities of building rapport in a virtual-first world, remember “the three Rs.”

Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-CEO of Atlassian, joined Stewart Butterfield, CEO of Slack, to paint a picture of the future of work

Help your team thrive – win or lose.

Have you switched to remote work, but are finding it challenging to manage your remote team? Managing remote teams can be challenging, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most companies have to go through many significant changes like, altering the company culture and creating new channels for virtual communication. But if you have the right tools at hand, you have nothing to worry about! In this article, we’ll highlight 6 types of tools to help you better manage your remote team.

As an engineering leader, one of the greatest gifts you can give your team is clarity of purpose, plan, and responsibility. Recently, Asana Head of Engineering, Prashant Pandey sat down with Plato to discuss why clarity is so important and how it impacts goals. Here are some of his insights and advice for setting engineering goals that are transparent and empowering to team members, no matter where in the world they’re working.

Learn the simple framework developed by psychiatrists and oncologists that emphasizes empathy, facts, and finding a way forward.

As a native New Yorker, I almost get the feeling I’ve seen this movie before. I saw 9/11 up close. I experienced the 2008 financial crash from inside Goldman Sachs. I’ve been through bomb threats, water main ruptures, and a hundred other predicaments too banal to remember distinctly. But even having worked and lead teams through all that, I still find the COVID-19 crisis challenging to navigate.

Plenty of businesses have found themselves in a very difficult situation caused by the ongoing crisis. They have been losing clients and there doesn't seem to be an easy way out of this. Plus, there's not much that businesses can do to fight coronavirus except following the government restrictions. However, there are companies out there managing to stay afloat and retain their customers, even in a situation like this. How do they manage to pull it off?

Especially when your team is working from home.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the COVID-19 pandemic so far, it’s that existential threats don’t just go away. Not even if you ignore them. (Actually, they get worse if you ignore them.) We’ve all been touched by the events of the past few months and we need a new way forward. Whether it’s climate change or public health, we need to face these threats head-on and solve them.