Be careful: This is the biggest mistake in the home office that can happen to you quickly

Is the communication with colleagues in the home office really going well?

Those who are affected should ask themselves exactly that.

Experts explain what else can happen.

Home office * has been part of

for many employees

since the

at the latest

.

Some companies have now found regulations according to which employees can at least partially work from home.

A survey on behalf of the Federal Association of Medium-Sized Businesses showed that more than half of medium-sized companies want to keep it at least in this form.

A look at the office landscape shows: Many bosses and employees have now found good rules when working from home, how they - despite the physical distance - communicate as smoothly as possible in the team.

Be it via

(with regular, firmly agreed virtual meetings) or via

in the group, in which, for example, everyone in the team can briefly log out and log in when they take a break or let us know what they are currently working on.

So everyone keeps an overview.

Read here

Home office: You should pay attention to this when communicating

But

in the home office is not

everywhere

.

Bosses in particular could lose the “line” to their team more quickly when working at a distance, as a team leader aptly describes in a report on Meedia.de.

Business & Leadership Coach Ines Thomas has

a tip

for

.

In the article mentioned, she writes: “Even if it sounds paradoxical: Your task as a manager is now also to create the formal framework for informality and thus to increase the probability that the positive power of informal encounters will also be reflected in digital collaboration can unfold. "

The expert on Meedia.de explains how this can actually work as follows: “Maybe it's an“ Open Door Hour ”in which you can“ stick your head in ”unannounced in a zoom call that is open to everyone?

Or "Stuck Session", invited everyone is open to share with colleagues, where just support is needed "Her advice:". Will you calm creative and create your

new rituals that

make perceptible ".

Another success factor is

: The

makes it difficult for us to really stay in touch.

"By video, telephone or even email it is more difficult to register the non-verbal signals that otherwise let us intuitively feel how the other person is doing."

Also read:

Home office: If you have urgent questions, it's better to phone instead of email

Many bosses can certainly agree with this.

According to a report by Stern.de, the manager Beat Bühlmann already spoke a few years ago at a

conference about what he believed to be the biggest mistake in the home office: Instead of clearing up problems directly in a short, clarifying (video)

, many would just

send

an

, the report says - which is a cardinal error from the manager's point of view.

Of course, urgency plays a role.

"You have to recognize when it makes sense to send an e-mail and when not," the manager is quoted as saying in the report.

"You wouldn't send an email to the fire department if your house was on fire, would you?" 

What about the

?

Ines Thomas emphasizes on Meedia.de: “Check it out: 'How much am I involved in update calls myself?

What am I sending out with the choice of my clothes and the setting of my workplace?

Does my body language and my choice of words signal more "

" or rather "

"? "Team leaders should and should ask themselves:" What do I need myself to work well and motivated in the new setting? "

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