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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions content/communication/async.md
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![Async](/img/communication/async.png)

To get things done, Hygge Companies rely on detailed documentation and atomic iterations that are visible to everyone through issue trackers like GitHub. Mastering this asynchronous workflow is vital to avoiding dysfunction. This is why Hygge companies prefer [GitHub issues](https://docs.github.com/en/issues/tracking-your-work-with-issues/about-issues) to chats and video calls. This also means that employees need to ensure that all conclusions made during offline conversations are recorded in GitHub, so that everyone at any time can follow your thought process.

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![Feedback](/img/communication/feedback.png)

# The importance of feedback

Human beings are social by nature. Our inclination to change our behavior in reliance upon feedback from our fellows is a primary evolutionary adaptation mechanism. Feedback is our relationship with the world and the world’s relationship with us, it’s how we make an impact on other people. Working in co-located environments, we are accustomed to making evaluations based on verbal and non-verbal signals: body language, tone of voice, facial expression, and many more. We're great at picking up on various signals from others. When working remotely, people are isolated from these clues.
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![Peer coaching](/img/communication/peer-coaching.png)

Peer coaching is a form of learning and development where two team-members work together to reflect on current practices; expand, refine, and build new skills; share ideas; teach one another; or solve problems. It's used in some Hygge Companies to improve internal communication and foster personal development of the team-members. These conversations rely on feedback giving and receiving skills.

# Peer Coaching Policy Template
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![Staying social](/img/communication/staying-social.png)

Distributed teams need to work together and communicate intensively. Work is always easier when you know the person you’re communicating with. That’s why Hygge Companies not only encourage personal interactions during team calls, meetups, and workations but also organize Hygge Roulette to foster interpersonal communication.

## Team calls
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![Bots](/img/github/bots.png)

It's always a good idea to automate managerial tasks. In your issues, you might encounter several bots that track GitHub's policies compliance.

1. [**Stale issue bot**](https://github.com/marketplace/actions/close-stale-issues-with-assignes) - pings an assignee if an issue is not updated. Beware: the stale bot can close issues if you ignore its messages.
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![Issue tracker](/img/github/issue-tracker.png)

There are plenty of [Issue Trackers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issue_tracking_system) and [Knowledge Management Systems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management_software) out there to choose from. For the purpose of simplicity, we'll use GitHub as an example of both. Anyone can set up a free personal (and even an organization) account and start building their Hygge Company using GitHub issue tracker and repositories for free!

Normally, Hygge Companies employees have set tasks and milestones with due dates for all of their projects. They need to accomplish those tasks and milestones on time. Where they do it from and how much time they spend on it, doesn’t matter. Our no-timesheets-approach gives a lot of freedom to all team-members, but also creates the responsibility to reach set out goals.
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![Milestones](/img/github/milestones.png)

Milestone is a [SMART](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria) goal, that can be split into individual issues for steps and closed at the end of a sprint. It is not a place to collect thematically similar issues (project boards allow to organize your work in many different ways). Ideally, every milestone should be:

- **Specific** – Well defined, clear, and unambiguous. A specific goal has a much greater chance of being accomplished than a general goal. Provide enough detail in milestone description so that there is no indecision as to what exactly the participant should be doing. Avoid words like `maybe`, `discuss` and any other similar lexis. Description should be precise and clear as possible. General discussions and brainstorming should be happening in separate issues and can not be a part of a live milestone
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![Project Boards](/img/github/project-boards.png)

Having a helicopter view of your workflow offers numerous advantages. While focusing on individual tasks is important, the ability to step back and see the bigger picture allows for better strategic planning, resource allocation, and overall project management. This broader perspective not only enhances team efficiency but also contributes to personal professional growth.

Projects are a great way to manage GitHub workflow from a high-level perspective. They allow for comprehensive project management and task tracking, making it easier to oversee progress and collaborate effectively.
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![Pull request](/img/tools/pull-request.png)

The pinnacle of mastering the async process is communicating through pull requests.

**What is a pull request about?**
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![Buddy](/img/growing/buddy.png)

Visiting another country or hiking an unknown trail all by yourself definitely has its advantages. But if you want to get to know all the local tips and tricks, discover the best view-points and learn fast and safe ways up, you look for local guides.

The same is when you join a new team. A new employee’s onboarding experience is greatly enhanced by buddy who acts as a local guide. It is a person to show around, share advice regarding day-to-day work at Hygge company. Buddy may also provide support and encouragement, as it would help to introduce new employee to organizational culture. Having efficient onboarding process can have long-term benefits, including better team member retention, engagement, and higher productivity.
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![career-development](/img/growing/career-development.png)

Career development often implies performance surveys. However, there is a rule of a performance survey in Hygge companies: you don't talk about the performance survey. Besides being a stressful experience for the employee being reviewed, filling out performance surveys is often an uncomfortable process for the reviewers and the managers who evaluate the results. Performance reviews often suffer from reviewer's bias and might also lead to employee's focus shift towards gaming the metrics instead of getting the job done. There are other ways to package the performance survey that address these problems without taking anything away from the value of collected feedback. Challenge your imagination and use less threatening words that target employee's growth, team integration, and well-being: Strengths and Opportunities Assessment, Team Member Focus Survey, Integration and Growth Check-up, or simply Hygge Work Questions.

## Metrics
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![Challenge](/img/growing/challenge.png)

The challenge program is a perfect tool for discovering hidden talent by autonomously vetting potential employees and interns at the start of the hiring process. The program consists of issues that can be solved without any access to company resources and require the participants to manage their own work. Such projects give interested individuals a chance to prove themselves, learn a bit about the company and products, and produce useful results in the process. In addition, it allows companies to suggest a better fit for candidates based on their challenge results.

Watch the video where Maya describes an [example of a challenge program](https://link.hygge.work/challenge-program) developed by [BlockShop](https://link.hygge.work/blockshop).
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![Onboarding](/img/growing/onboarding.png)

The first few months are crucial to the success of the new hire. The newcomer will either buy in by investing their time and attention or treat the company as a paycheck printer, working hard enough not to get fired.

[Buddies](https://hygge.work/growing/buddy-guidelines/) help to make onboarding experience engaging, yet well-organized and structured. Work-related information, served in tiny bits in the issue-tracker, facilitates the smooth transition to work culture of a Hygge company.
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![Growth](/img/growing/growth.png)

Hygge Companies hire people not only because they are useful now, but also because they believe in their potential.

Working in a Hygge Company provides an opportunity for extremely efficient and, in many cases, very accelerated, career growth. In particular, it provides an opportunity to broaden your skill set well outside the narrow constraints that careers can have at most other companies. There is no red tape, allowing you to tailor your own “growth ladder”. It operates exactly as fast as you can manage to grow. You’re in charge of your track, and you can [elicit help](/communication/feedback) with it anytime from those around you.
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![Personal project](/img/growing/personal-project.png)

Every newcomer's journey at Hygge Company starts with a personal project. Personal project is a private space to set and track personal milestones. It can take different forms - personal repository or a dashboard, depends on an issue tracker that Hygge company uses.

Enjoy making daily to-do lists? Want to test how markdown on GitHub works? Planning to learn Python from a colleague?
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![Attention management](/img/remote-work/attention.png)

There's no one to tell you how to organize your day and prioritize important things. Try [attention management instead of time management](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/smarter-living/productivity-isnt-about-time-management-its-about-attention-management.html) and use [time-saving tools and shortcuts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS1mnISoG7U).

## Priorities
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![Planning](/img/remote-work/planning.png)

**Have a plan.** However bad it might be. It's much better to come up with a numbered steps plan and ask people to help you to improve it than make them guess or create one for you.

## Have trouble making a plan? Try Goal Breakdown
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![Sisu](/img/sisu/sisu.png)

Hygge Companies hire certain types of people: [the selection process](https://hygge.work/growing/) is designed to spot talented people who are passionate about what they do and ready to hustle to achieve their goals, both personal and professional.

In remote settings, Hygge employees have to learn to manage their resources and energy in a new way. This is why Hygge Companies adopt the concept of good daily sisu to keep their people going.
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