The office isn’t a place to go to work. It’s a tool to be used for work. You wouldn’t use a hammer to make your coffee, any more than you’d use your French press coffeemaker to drive a nail. When we stop thinking about the office as “a place where we work,” but instead look at it as “a tool …
How to keep remote employees engaged
A lot of people are asking variations on this question. How to keep remote teams engaged. How to keep remote employees engaged with the company culture. How to make sure remote employees feel part of the team / part of the company. How to onboard remote employees. And so on. And on. And on. Apparently it’s a deep and burning issue. …
Remote Team Meetings – 7 Quick Tips
Trying to hold meetings when everyone’s working from home, the dog’s barking, and the cat’s trying to sit on the keyboard? Here are seven quick tips to make your remote team meetings productive and enjoyable when you’re all working from home! (In fact … don’t look now, but your meetings just might be even better than they were when you …
Manage-from-Home Tips
I’ve started a new week-daily post on LinkedIn and Facebook under the hashtag #TheLeadershipGeekWorksFromHome. I invite you to follow the hashtag on either (or both!) platforms. What will you be getting? Here are the first eight tips: 1. Reach out daily to check in Don’t wait for your team members to contact you. There are a host of reasons why …
Managing a remote team
Suddenly working from home AND trying to manage your suddenly-working-from-home employees? It’s hard enough getting organized to work from a home office, but when your whole team is trying to get organized from home and trying to stay on top of the work, it’s that much crazier. Add into that the fact that your kids and partner are also home, …
Suddenly managing from home?
You’ve been told to work from home. On the one hand, yay: you’re at less risk for infection. But you’re used to being in the office with your team. And now you can’t walk over to someone’s desk to ask a question or get a status report, and they can’t come to your office to check in or brainstorm problems. …