Working Consciously and Gathering with Purpose Post-COVID

One of the great opportunities we have coming out of the last 15 months is we get to choose how we re-emerge, re-engage, and how we lead and work.

We can either rush right back to the way things were, the way we always used to operate — or we can choose to do something different. We can choose to make a change in how we lead, communicate, and collaborate.

Right now is a potent time to ask:

• What are the lessons we’ve drawn from the last 15 months and how should we act accordingly?
• What is the purpose behind gathering and how do I want people to feel?

Over the last two weeks I shared the first installments in a month-long series of tips for how to lead and communicate in a new hybrid remote/in-person work world and how to maintain casual and informal connections that are so much of the glue that binds us at work.

This week I’m focusing on choosing HOW and WHY we COLLABORATE and GATHER. Whether you’re working remote-first or some hybrid version, how and when we come together in person — and what we do when we’re together, requires a more sophisticated, deliberate approach than we’ve had before.

As a reminder, gathering is any time people come together — for a meeting, a conference, a workshop, a…