What are some strategies to stay connected with clients and teams while most are working remote?

For the first time in probably years, you may look at your calendar for the coming week and entire days are empty or perhaps even better, littered with Zoom conference calls.  On the one hand, that sounds wonderful. Sweet, sweet free time. On the other hand, it’s terrifying. But there can be a silver lining to the adjustment we're experiencing: it can do wonders for one’s creativity.  So why not embrace it?  Consider challenging your team to develop  approaches or solutions to some of your most nagging issues which under ‘normal’ circumstances aren’t considered priority due to the daily grind.

Many of us could conceptualize our career into two types of work: creative work and procedural work. Think of it as right-brain work and left-brain work (or Feeling Brain work and Thinking Brain work).

The two types of work have different characteristics. Procedural work gains from structure, scheduling, planning, and requires consistent execution. Creative work is unpredictable and unstructured. In fact, the more you try to plan out creative work, often the worse results you get. This is why every artist is insanely productive right up until the moment that they’re given a deadline. Reduce distractions and people can become extremely inspired, if of course nurturned and guided in some fashion.  

By utterly destroying any semblance of procedural work, The Quarantine Life could ignite a renaissance in you and your team’s creative work. Creativity gains from tons of time and no obligations. 

If you’ve ever wished you had time or opportunity to clear the deck for your team to be more creative —whatever endeavor that may be —now is the time to do it.