by Chuck Chapman, Content Strategy Coordinator I grew up in an era, raised by Baby Boomers, that emphasized certain characteristics for being successful in the workplace. While things like honesty, punctuality and attention to detail are timeless traits that will be valued in any era, the advent of remote work has put a premium on
by Wayne Turmel If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you use email to communicate with your remote team. A lot…probably way too much. Email is often identified as both the most commonly used tool to communicate AND the number one productivity killer. If email falls into the latter category for you, the problem
by Chuck Chapman, Content Strategy Coordinator Once upon a time most people worked from home. They plowed fields, milked cows, fed the hogs, all on their own property. Transportation and technology simply didn’t allow most people to earn a living very far, if at all, from where they lived. Fast forward almost 200 years, looking
Being a manager is time consuming. If you accept that fact, you won’t resent the extra hours you spend at the office. Chances are you’ve found yourself stuck at work in the evening completing a project that you could have finished easily within normal work hours in the days before you became a boss. Even
by Chuck Chapman, Content Strategy Coordinator Does your remote team’s workflow look like this? Even though remote team members might avoid the morning commute, they can encounter traffic jams once they get to work. Several factors native to remote work create higher opportunities for workflow to get bogged down. That means a loss in efficiency
At the end of last year I wrote a blog post titled, Eight Ways to Be a Better Leader in 2018. And in today’s video, I am focusing on just one of those ways, specifically: More Productivity Less Place. Tweet it out: Focus what people are accomplishing, not where they are doing the work. @KevinEikenberry
by Wayne Turmel Odds are that your remote team does more communication through email than anything else. That’s really quite amazing when you realize that it’s the first time since the invention of the telephone that the majority of business communication occurs both in writing and at the speed of electrons. It’s no big surprise
by Chuck Chapman, Content Strategy Coordinator It’s no secret. The daily life of the remote worker is different than that of the traditional office-based employee. If you’re a remote worker, that might be frustrating at times. People just don’t understand! So with apologies to Jeff Foxworthy, we’d like to offer a few distinguishing signs of
by Chuck Chapman, Content Strategy Coordinator I worked for over 20 years before embarking on a career working from home. There were many times when getting dressed every morning, enduring the rush hour commutes (and sometimes the co-workers) made me envious of those who were able to earn a living from the comfort of their
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