Do I fit in here?

Oasis Associates Jane Bytheway and Sarah Bryson facilitate the Oasis Skills for Change programme and in the short film above they talk about the need for effective working relationships. A transcript of the film is below:

Well, there's been a lot of people who've been working from home clearly during the pandemic, and as we're now in this phase of hybrid working, or some people work part-time in the office part-time at home, one of the things that we've heard is how challenging it can be to build and maintain relationships, because people aren't spending enough quality time together, and they're not having enough space to have those kind of passing conversations.

Yes, and teams that work better together are more effective because they have those really good effective relationships, and those connections. They know who they can go to if they've got a question, and they can also bounce ideas off people, and that can be something that can be really missing when you're working either in a hybrid way or working at home you don't have that space to check out ideas and see if they're going to be well received.

Yes, and I think that also kind of taps into how people feel about the culture of an organisation. It can be really hard to know what that's like when you don't build relationships, and you pick that stuff up without it being said out loud quite a lot, so connecting with other people, spending time with them, and building those relationships really helps in terms of feeling like I fit in around here, I belong. and I know what are the right things to do.

More info on Skills for Change HERE