Wurster and four other Philadelphia-area executives gathered Wednesday to discuss career success in a hybrid or remote work environment, at a panel hosted by executive coaching firm The Leader’s Edge. If their conversation is any indication, learning how to thrive in a flexible, partially virtual work environment will be useful for the foreseeable future.Wurster, of CHOP, works on the seventh floor and most of the senior executives work 13 floors above.
“Follow up pragmatically on LinkedIn. Be willing to connect where there’s an opportunity,” said Aileen K. Alexander, CEO of Diversified Search Group. “We create these moments... where people can build camaraderie in a much more organic way,” Santilli said. “We’re kind of using the office as the new off-site,”While Zoom fatigue is real, virtual meetings can be meaningful, suggested Renita Miller, chief diversity, equity & inclusion officer at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
“Embrace small talk,” Miller said. “It just brings out the authenticity in a person to just have those small chit-chat conversations. And they tend to blossom into so much more.”