In this post, Pilar shares a recent experience at a workshop, where the solution to a visibility problem lay not in adopting new technology, but in a very simple change.
Read MoreIf you’re new to online meetings, this free section from “Online Meetings That Matter” will help you get up and running fast:
Read MoreWhat can you do if seeing yourself on video makes you feel strange? Ideally, get used to it… But, there are other options.
Read MoreWhen you can’t see your colleagues face to face, how do you know what’s going on inside? How does this impact on the work you do together? In this blog post we explore the “why” and the “how” of communicating our moods, within remote teams.
Read MoreCan remote work affect our motivation negatively? What do we need to know to make sure that our new practices don’t demotivate team members? In this blog post, we review Self-Determination Theory and look for the link with Visible Teamwork.
Read MoreIn this post, Maya reflects on some of the issues and debates surrounding remote working in the Agile development community.
Read MoreIn this post, Pilar outlines the need to adopt a coaching mindset to ensure team members can work autonomously and grow on the job.
Read MoreCelebrating is a uniquely human need, to mark special events large and small. Remote teams have developed fascinating and creative ways of doing this!
Read MoreRemote working options creates many new opportunities for those disabled from accessing traditional workplaces - but some barriers still need tackling, and it’s well worth doing so.
Read MoreIt’s time to replace the term “working out loud” when talking about collaboration in teams.
Read More“Working from home” stereotypes abound in popular discourse, and here Maya explodes a few myths and tackles head-on some of these unhelpful cliches, which do little to advance the real discussion around alternative ways of working.
Read MoreOne of the most challenging aspects of leading a remote team is navigating through conflict, disagreement and difficult situations. In this article, Pilar shares a recent experience highlighting the importance of working on our team relationships at all times, not just when things go wrong.
Read MoreRemote working, flexible working - does it mean you should be able to do any work, anywhere? In the interests of research Maya nobly tested this theory, to near-destruction:
Read MoreWhen we think of how remote team’s communicate, we still imagine long written threads and multiple messages going backwards and forwards. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Read MoreHere’s a thought experiment: “If you were to leave your team now, what would you say at your exit interview?” Has looking back in this imaginary scenario brought any different insights about how your team works? Or crystallised what’s important to you? In this blog post, Pilar suggests how to turn the concept of an exit interview into a team review meeting, to generate new insights into how we work.
Read MoreYou might be sick of all the anxious re-opt-in emails, and think that GDPR doesn’t apply to you - but whether you’re a small business owner, a marketing professional, or simply deal with personal information of customers/enquirers in your everyday work, then the enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation affects you. Maya discusses some of the implications to consider, in today’s distributed workplace.
Read MoreRemote working, flexible working, agile working, smart working… So many buzzwords, for the same thing: more and more of us are now being enabled or even encouraged to work somewhere other than the traditional centralised office.
Read MoreOne of the advantages of working in a remote team is that we can often make decisions together asynchronously. But sometimes, a meeting is the best way of deciding as a team. In this post, Pilar gives you some guidance on deciding whether you need to call a meeting with your team.
Read MoreIn this blog post, Maya Middlemiss shares her own experience of upgrading her remote communication tools, as technology evolved. Paying careful attention to the team’s needs and designing a plan to introduce the new tools was vital to the successful transition to the new tech. Throughout this post, and especially if you’re mainly using email for internal communications, we invite you to ask yourself, “Is it time to upgrade the way we communicate with remote colleagues?”
Read MoreCan any of the management behaviours that create psychological safety in meetings be transferred to the online space? Of course they can! In this extensive blog post, Pilar shares a chapter from "Online Meetings that Rock" to help you create trust in your team.
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