As many of us head into a hybrid mix of at-home and in-office work schedules, this kind of collaboration will play an even bigger role.Īll of these collaboration moments have reduced the burden of having to coordinate meetings with big groups. Posting comments and action items in documents for colleagues who work in other hemispheres or have childcare duties in the afternoons means that the speed of execution of a project is no longer dependent on aligning calendars. Meanwhile, asynchronous collaboration-people sharing feedback or ideas on a project at different times-has proven to be essential not only in distributed teams, but within local teams with differing schedules and work preferences. For collaboration to work well, you need an integrated set of tools that allow you to tailor your approach to the task at hand.
Eventually the task is completed, but it’s not a good use of the time or channel. For example, I've been in meetings where 20 people are making minor edits and debating the font size on a presentation. It’s important to remember that not every channel and collaboration moment lends itself to real-time decision making. When an independent consulting firm recently surveyed Google Workspace users about how they get work done, 92% said that real-time collaboration-writing documents and slides together, tracking a project in a chat room, or sharing feedback via chat and video-has become the default for their teams. Instead, we can now run two parallel collaboration workstreams-one for real time decision-making and discussion, and one for asynchronous feedback. With the rise of digital collaboration tools, the meeting is no longer the prime lever it once was. Maybe I’d get some input over email in advance or after, but it was really the meeting where we took a deep dive as a team, discussed options, and picked our direction.
I’d present my work, take notes, and walk away with a set of action items. In my early work life, more than a decade ago, the structured meeting was the primary method for getting feedback and moving projects forward. Most collaboration happens now in moments, not meetings.
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