By Wayne Turmel As a new year approaches, remote workers spend a lot of time thinking about what’s changing for 2017. Actually, we don’t. We spend a lot of time worrying. That’s not the same thing at all. Here are four trends for remote workers we predict will impact the way we work together in
I am not a big fan of “New Year’s Eve.” Here in North America, it’s cold, dark, and we’ve had quite enough of forced frivolity, (thank you very much). However, it does offer one advantage: it’s the only time of year you actually get an occasional chance to breathe. Customers don’t answer the phone, half your
By Wayne Turmel “My remote team members are terrible at virtual meetings. They’re multitasking and not participating, and when they do take part they talk over each other and generally don’t get much done. What can I do? How can I coach better remote meeting etiquette?” I can’t tell you how often I’ve had a
By Wayne Turmel It is high time to admit what most people already feel in their gut: the history of remote working today was never planned. Forget think tanks, Gartner studies and futurists gracing the pages of Fast Company. It has morphed into – whatever the heck it is we’re doing – through trial and
By Wayne Turmel Often, I am asked, “How can I maintain focus during virtual meetings and conference calls?” The obvious answer, “Stay focused,” isn’t very helpful. And I can understand the frustration. We are good people. (You and I are at least…the others who don’t care about the team, or anyone else but themselves, are
By Wayne Turmel With studies showing a sharp increase in employees working from home, you’d think remote workers would be more likely to view their jobs as “perks” and therefore, would be more likely to stay at organizations longer…nope. While teleworkers often show higher levels of satisfaction with the work, they are more prone to
By Wayne Turmel So, meetings are a giant waste of time, demotivate people and generally should be discouraged at all costs, right? What if I told you how a meeting was responsible for the Cubs winning the World Series… Got your attention now, don’t I? In case you forgot –and there are a lot of people
If you think people waste money on meetings, you aren’t wrong…just look to the recent move made by Cisco. According to a recent article in Techcrunch, Cisco paid BIG (no word on the number, but it’s approximately in the seven-figure range) for the startup, Worklife. What does Worklife do? Make software to make meetings better. Worklife is
It seems like when we talk about successful virtual meetings, we talk about the role of the leader. But what about those of us attendees? Can we just skate and accept none of the responsibility? What can we do to make sure our conference calls, web meetings and other remote team communication ROCKS? It might
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