2 Cultivating Your Digital Presence

Being There When You’re Not

You might think that working with other people is a cinch compared to collaborating with machines. We’re all human beings, after all. In reality, working in a virtual environment changes how we interact with one another. When you’re out of sight of your coworkers, managers, or clients, you can easily become out of mind and out of touch. Developing a digital mindset means learning to stay in sync with remote collaborators.

No doubt you can recall a time when you were perplexed by a remote colleague’s behavior. Are they not answering your email because they are busy? Uninterested? Both? Maybe they didn’t get your email? When we are not collocated with our collaborators, we make ...

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