Over the past 15 years, I have heard three common storylines being articulated around remote working, they are unhelpful yet common myths that many organisations and managers fear when teams are shifting too remote working. Let’s briefly take a look at each of them, and quickly debunk them so that you can stop worrying and get down to effective remote team working.
Let’s get specific on communication. If you are a manager of a remote working team there are three communication priorities that you need to consider every week. These three topics are born out of real world research into effective remote working and have their source in three problems that can occur when digital nomading.
What strange days we are living in! We’ve got plagues, floods, crazy leaders, and all manor of economic fragility. I don’t know about you, but the media hype certainly doesn’t help me stay calm and drink tea. Yet a little bit of me would love some splendid isolation! The thought of two weeks being locked in at home sounds like bliss compared to a punishing diary of international travel and training.
I wonder whether the fact that you’ve read beyond the title may indicate you have yet to realise your ambition? For some ‘reaching your potential’ seems to matter, for others, they probably didn’t click this far through! I don’t know why it is, but some people are simply more driven to max out on what they are capable of.
Over the last couple of weeks, my colleague Will karlsen and I have been musing on what it is to have impact, gravitas and charisma. Have a listen to our two podcasts Episodes 17 & 18 on the topic. We all know when we meet someone who could be described as credibly having any or all of the ‘impact, gravitas and charisma’ trinity.
I previously wrote about feedback in the blog post 'Three reasons positive feedback matters’. It’s clear that being able to deliver feedback in a great way is such a useful skill for anyone to have. However, I’ve certainly met lots of people who would say that they have experienced poor feedback on any number of occasions.
This weeks Squeeze podcast considers what it might mean to look after number 1, a little bit of self care. It’s an odd topic for me, even as I start writing now, I feel a strange discomfort with it. I think it must have something to do with a foundational belief I hold too, that ‘selfishness is undesirable compared to selflessness’.
So tonight as the hour passes 2300 GMT, Britain will exit the European Union. Quite a moment, that will end a 47 year relationship with our neighbouring countries. No doubt entering the union was an experiment, just as is leaving it now. No doubt many will morn and many will rejoice.
There’s an ancient proverb that tells us “like a city whose walls are broken through, is a person who lacks self-control”. The picture is of the fortified city, which protects its inhabitants from all kinds of trouble. The walls keep the people safe by ensuring both dangerous animals and enemy peoples are kept at bay.
I wouldn’t say that I am avoiding commitment, but I wouldn’t say that I’m not! It’s new year and the news has been full of naysayers suggesting new gym or diet practices are bound to be short lived. Well for what it’s worth, I rather like the idea of new year new starts.
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