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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 almost 10 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...
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...
Tips for the perfect home office
I am one of the lucky ones. The commute to my office is less than a minute, usually in slippers with a cup of home-brewed coffee in my hand. I work from my home office in the Philadelphia suburbs and have since 2010. I work from home, but I don’t work from the couch...
How to Run a Great Virtual Meeting
I’ve been working remotely since 2010 and I’ve spent hundreds of hours in virtual meetings. Some are great, but most can be inefficient and lack inclusiveness. Check out this video for the keys to running a great virtual meeting.These are the highlights: Before the...
4 steps to convince your boss to say “yes” to working remotely
Don't spend time searching for work from home jobs. You can keep the job that you love, but do it remotely - if you have the right plan to influence the right people. I was a remote work pioneer for The Clorox Company - one of the very first fully remote brand...