Déjà Vu All Over Again

Are you getting the strange feeling like you’ve been here before? Like you’ve experienced exactly what’s happening now a year or maybe two years ago? If you’re a fan of The Matrix movie franchise, you’ll know that déjà vu is actually a glitch in the computer program that is feeding us our idea of reality. The ‘real’ reality (spoiler alert) is that we lost a war with intelligent machines we created who now use us humans as their batteries.

What’s going on now with the new Covid variant certainly isn’t as bleak, but it does feel like we’re all on a hamster wheel trying to adapt to a morphing reality that has us back to nearly the same place we were years ago. This new wave of Covid may, at least in the near term, halt what was expected to be a resurgence of in-person business meetings and conferences, and return-to-office plans have once again been postponed.

At the beginning of the pandemic, we offered our teams and customers subtle tips about the psychology of remote communications. Seeing as we’re in a not-too-dissimilar situation now, I thought we’d revisit some of these tips, but we’re not just going to do a lazy rehash here—we’re also going to show how RPost products launched over the last couple years will make these tips much easier to put into practice.

This Week’s Tip: Tame the Initial “Fight-or-Flight” Instinct (Using Emojis or other Personalized Communication)

More remote communication (still) means more emailing and videoconferencing. Without the human interaction of in-person client visits, in-office meetings, or in-person conferences, even a yellow animated emoji with a quasi-human face placed in context can initiate a favorable human bonding experience.

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