The move has been made – you are working from home. And while things might be settling down a bit, reality has set in too. There is more to remote work success than you might have realized. Whether you are a remote leader trying to figure out how much to check in, or a team
If you look now, even in this time of uncertainty, you can see hope. While I have watched very little news (which is one reason it is easier to see hope), what little I have seen tells stories of companies switching production, neighbors helping neighbors, and tremendous acts of kindness and humanity. I see hope
The COVID-19 outbreak has created a downstream mini-crisis: We now have a host of people working from home who’ve never done it before. Wayne Turmel has not only been working remotely for over 20 years, he’s been teaching others and writing books about it. He’s got three important tips to help you right away if
by Chuck Chapman, Content Strategy Coordinator If you’re in a certain age range and grew up in the Midwest during the late 1970s, you probably remember the Blizzard of 1978. That’s the winter where midwestern states were literally snowed under, restricting travel and forcing closures of schools and businesses for several weeks until we were
If you’re suddenly forced to work from home and worry you can’t get anything done, imagine you’re stuck in Europe during the worst days of the Black Death/Bubonic Plague. Now consider that some of the greatest works in Western literature came out of that time. And they had no WebEx or Slack to help. Boccaccio
Getting work done in a normal workweek is hard enough. But when the coronavirus causes travel restrictions, or natural disasters strike business districts, as it did this week in Nashville or during the hurricanes in Houston, everything becomes even more chaotic than normal. The key to remaining calm and productive during crises like this is
No doubt you’ve heard the old phrase, “people don’t quit jobs, they quit managers.” This is particularly true for people who work at a distance from their coworkers and their manager(s). Why is the risk of remote workers leaving higher than people who come into the office every day? There are a couple of simple
by Chuck Chapman-Content Strategy Coordinator We make no apologies for our unbridled enthusiasm for remote work. Not only is is remote work at the heart of everything we do on this site, it’s how we work ourselves. And now that most of the the rest of the world has had at least a taste of remote work,
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