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4 must-know skill areas to create a valuable virtual client / agency relationship
Agency & Marketer Friends, While your relationship with each other has actually always had a virtual component to it, the pandemic added another level of physical and relationship distance. As a remote marketing director for The Clorox Company I worked with at...
New! Breakout Rooms in Microsoft Teams
📣 Breakout Rooms are coming to Microsoft Teams in early December 2020! Here's the scoop on how to use it, hot off the presses from Microsoft's communication to admins... Heads Up: You will need to be a meeting organizer to see the Breakout Room button. It will be...
How to Get a Remote Job
Watch the video to hear the panel discussion our CEO, Sacha Connor, led with two experts on remote hiring: Laila von Alvensleben, Head of Culture and Collab at MURAL Andrew Gobran, HR/People Ops at Doist Topics covered include: 1. What are the essential...
Large Enterprises: The Reality of Remote Work, Now and in the Future
Check out the video above! Our CEO, Sacha Connor, led a panel of our clients and colleagues to share how they, and the large enterprises they lead, are adapting to remote work during COVID, and what’s in store for the future. This special event was part of Running...
5 Tips to Delete Distance Bias as Some Head Back into the Office
Unprecedented location inclusion is one of COVID’s positive unintended consequences. The office shut-downs have forced so many of us into FROGs* – fully remote organizations. This meant that for the first time, in many companies, all team members were are on an...
Virtual Meeting Design: The Mantra is Preparation
We have collectively hit virtual meeting burnout. I’ve been working remotely for 11 years and I’ve led or attended more than 10,000 hours of virtual meetings. This included my butt being glued to my chair for almost 8 hours straight for bi-weekly leadership team...
Influencing Across Distance: 3 Strategies for Impact
Our CEO, Sacha Connor, wrote an article for IDEO U, a team within IDEO, the award-winning global design firm. She shared three strategies for influencing across distance. 3 Strategies for Impact 1. Visualize your Sphere of Influence 2. Plant seeds and create triggers...
Juggling Remote Work with Children at Home
This is not normal remote work. This is extreme work/life integration like we’ve never experienced. A rapid transition to remote work has left many of us unprepared to juggle work while also having children at home. A sudden full house, with children rightfully...
11 Pitfalls of Remote Work and How to Avoid Them
Our CEO, Sacha Connor, partnered with IDEO U for their Creative Confidence Series Podcast. IDEO U is a team within IDEO, the award-winning global design firm. She shared with them 11 pitfalls to look out for when working remotely and strategies for how to avoid...
Avoid the Dangerous Delay Mindset
Don’t fall into the trap of the dangerous delay mindset, instead move to a transition mindset. With the COVID-19 office shutdowns, we're all re-learning how to do our daily work - as we juggle work & life like never before. I've noticed a tendency to put...
Use Activity Creativity to Drive Remote Team Culture
Driving trust, fun, and inclusion within distributed teams or a remote workforce can be challenging. But, if you want to increase engagement and business results within virtual teams you must have a deliberate plan to enable location inclusion, and that relies...
Influence Customers Remotely
Difficult circumstances, such as those we are living in right now with the spread of coronavirus, can also present opportunities to improve our business practices. As we rapidly move to a remote workforce, many of us are facing challenges keeping our clients...