Set a boundary when office gossip starts: "I prefer not to talk about him absent — let's ask him".

Sign a civility pact with your team: no interrupting, no sarcasm, no replying angry.

Deliver specific SBI feedback to a peer within 48 hours of the event.

Turn a dead meeting productive with three GROW questions and one clear decision.

Write a specific SBI thank-you to one colleague every day for two weeks.

Set explicit working hours and broadcast them in your email signature.

Co-create a remote-team charter defining overlap hours, channels, and reply SLA.

Set 5 video-call presence signals: eye-on-camera, posture, active listening.

Set rules for your group chats: no short replies, batch messages, specific @s.

Use voice notes efficiently: under 90 sec, segmented, title-first.

Learn 10 professional emojis that compress sentences — use them consistently.

Compute colleague's time before writing, use schedule-send to avoid sleep disruption.

Be a digital civic voice via one thoughtful comment weekly instead of 20 impulsive reactions.

Craft one personal boundary for a group chat that drains you, and state it without apology.

End a drawn-out text thread with a warm closing line instead of silently fading out.

Prepare one line that works for any brief encounter under 20 seconds (elevator, hallway, queue).

Replace one reused password across 30 accounts with unique long ones, stored in an encrypted manager.