The essential quality of any talented team is that they find commonality, share vulnerability, and focus on collective results achieved together. If your team was cohesive before the pandemic, they should be able to rebuild those traits with a little help.

First, as their leader, invite them to help in identifying ways to remain united in the face of distance working. Gather them together virtually for a few minutes each week to analyze themselves as a team, discuss what they're working on, and what help they may need from each other. Often when meeting, virtual teams focus only on results and miss maintaining their personal connections. So give them time to chat informally as well as discuss how they are being productive while working at home.

Additionally, break the team into task groups, assigning each a job to work on. Later, at a designated time, they can present the solutions they're working on to the whole team. By combining socializing with working together, you can rekindle in them something that Helen Keller once said about teamwork: "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." E