Given the advent of remote work and leading people at distance, what new problems planning and coordinating with others is your organization dealing with that are not fully solved by your current calendaring systems?
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Our Corporate culture is to live by the "Outlook Calendar" - so collaborating and scheduling on-line working sessions is successful with seasoned employees (those there 5+ years). We were successful with this pre-COVID. It's typically new employees who are not fully on-board, keeping their calendar up to date, replying to appointments to inform host they are not available, or not proposing a different date and time. They typically just decline, without even sending the decline message. Over time, they learn to collaborate better. We had teams all over the globe so on-line collaboration was just standard operating procedure.
We dont see any challenge with our calendaring system. Things seems to be coming up in good shape.
We do not have challenge in leading staff in remote work environment. With our existing tools available, we have been performing relatively well with planning and coordination.
We did not have problems with planning and coordination so far, we focused on developing the culture aligned to this new normal and motivated the teams to align to it. We continue to focus on bring more integration for our collaboration and planning tools.
Similar to the comments from others, O365/Teams calendaring is meeting our needs for internal meeting and collaboration, and as an added productivity "bonus" most staff are now keeping their calendar up to date, which had not been the case pre-Covid. However, we are exploring other solutions to better manage resource scheduling (collaboration spaces, study areas, etc.) for our on-campus students who choose to attend the fall semester.