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What is a 'Meet the Team' page?
4 benefits of an internal 'Meet the Team' page
Why use Confluence for your 'Meet the Team' page?
Just like external pages build trust, internal ones do too. Here's why a ‘Meet the team’ page is crucial for remote teams to know their colleagues.
An internal “Meet the team” page might not rank high on the list of priorities when it comes to operational management, but that shouldn't be further from the truth. A core aspect of business is human connection, and that's true both externally with your customers and internally amongst your team.
In this article, we'll explain why you should invest in "Meet the Team" pages for your company intranet, not just your public-facing website, and how to take advantage of the power of Confluence to get your teams working better together, no matter where they are in the world.
What is a 'Meet the Team' page?
Simply put, a 'Meet the Team' page is a space for you to introduce the individuals who make up your company. It's essentially a gallery or directory showcasing the people behind the company. It typically includes names, photos, roles, and sometimes a brief biography. This could exist externally on your website or internally on your company intranet, but ideally, it should be on both.
Confluence is an ideal platform for creating a 'Meet the Team' page
What are the benefits of an internal 'Meet the Team' page?
With teams increasingly working remotely (sometimes even across continents), knowing who your work colleagues are and what they do is no longer something that can be taken for granted. Here are four ways a 'Meet the Team’ page benefits your company:
- Build trust: Having a page that clearly outlines team structures and roles helps to reduce ambiguity. Employees can understand who does what, where to go for help, and how responsibilities are distributed, which creates a more open, accountable work culture.
- Connect colleagues: An internal team page puts faces to names that might be chanced upon in email chains or project chats. Similarly, an internal 'Meet the Team' page can support the onboarding of new employees, visually outlining team structures, and helping them to quickly identify key contacts.
- Identify the experts: Furthermore, just as it does on public-facing pages, an intranet-hosted 'Meet the Team' page is invaluable when it comes to locating expertise. There's no need to send mass emails or use @channel callouts in Slack to find someone who can help with a query or challenge. Simply navigate to the user profile pages and find the people most relevant to your enquiry. That sort of efficiency not only speeds up work, but it also encourages collaboration and tears down work silos.
- Shape work culture: Finally, allowing individuals to add a little individuality to their profiles and display some personality alongside their professional credentials helps build a sense of camaraderie and develop a positive company culture.
Why Confluence is perfect for your internal team page
As a powerful collaboration tool, Confluence provides a centralised space to enhance team connectivity. It offers easy creation and customisation of team pages, allowing individuals the opportunity to showcase their own personality and expertise.
Confluence has built-in search capabilities, making it simple to locate colleagues from different departments and even locales. A key capability of Confluence is how it breaks down silos between different teams. With easy access to team profiles, Confluence can speed up workflows and help identify key contacts to leverage their expertise in their own tasks.
Furthermore, Confluence integrates well with other tools and platforms, ensuring it isn’t just a static directory but can be a living hub of information. You can link to project documents, calendars, communication channels, and plug external tools directly into your spaces. Better still, Confluence is wholly extensible, supporting third-party apps that give you access to a wide number of templates, such as Mosaic: Content Formatting Macros & Templates, a full macro toolbox to help create engaging, user-friendly Confluence pages.
Mosaic comes with a ready-made User Profiles Template that makes the process of breaking down those collaboration silos even easier. This template provides a structured way to present individual team members, using a banner to introduce the page, and including personal details such as name, job title, department, contact details and time zone. It also allows for a profile photo and a dedicated section for accolades, highlighting team wins and individual achievements. This ensures each profile is informative and engaging, contributing to a more connected and collaborative work environment.
If your company is already using Confluence, but hasn't set up an internal 'Meet the Team' page, then you're not harnessing the full potential of your intranet.
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