Chapter 9
Building and Maintaining Relationships
When everyone still worked in the office, Lucy really enjoyed most of her teammates. She enjoyed the camaraderie and interaction with most everyone. And even though she didn’t particularly like working with Hector, they made it work when paired on project work. But now that everyone is telecommuting, she is having trouble staying connected with people like she used to. And working with Hector? Well, that hasn’t gotten better either! Perhaps hardest of all, she doesn’t even really know the new people from the other region that she must work with more now. And the new hires? She can’t even keep their names straight.
Just because you are by yourself while you work in your home office, at the dining ...
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