Employees who are unengaged with their team leaders cannot attribute this to remote or hybrid work.
As a social psychologist who has been working with team dynamics since 2010, I have repeatedly seen how engagement problems are exposed in virtual and hybrid teams and how these problems are already embedded in so many organizational cultures.
For many, the pandemic made corridor conversations and informal catch-ups that build trust difficult, if not impossible. What remained was a more honest picture of who is engaged and who isn’t.
This article is a practical guide to diagnosing and rebuilding remote engagement in remote and hybrid teams, drawing on the experiences of manager of hybrid teams Edisa Kapur, as well as other practitioners whom I had the pleasure of interviewing.
Before you continue, we thought you might like to download our five positive psychology tools for free. These engaging, science-based exercises will help you effectively deal with difficult circumstances and give you the tools to improve the resilience of your clients, students, or employees.
As a social psychologist who has been working with team dynamics since 2010, I have repeatedly seen how engagement problems are exposed in virtual and hybrid teams and how these problems are already embedded in so many organizational cultures.
For many, the pandemic made corridor conversations and informal catch-ups that build trust difficult, if not impossible. What remained was a more honest picture of who is engaged and who isn’t.
This article is a practical guide to diagnosing and rebuilding remote engagement in remote and hybrid teams, drawing on the experiences of manager of hybrid teams Edisa Kapur, as well as other practitioners whom I had the pleasure of interviewing.
Before you continue, we thought you might like to download our five positive psychology tools for free. These engaging, science-based exercises will help you effectively deal with difficult circumstances and give you the tools to improve the resilience of your clients, students, or employees.

