Managing Remote Teams

Anybody can burn out. Listen to Jules' story about how burnout almost cost him his life, and what his takeaways are from the whole experience.

Starting from where you are, it might feel like a big change to move towards a results only work environment. Tune in to this episode for useful tips on how to start shifting towards a results only environment, including first steps you can take in that direction.

What happens when you focus company culture on results? Turns out, quite a lot...and there's a lot of unexpected side effects. So much of everyday corporate life is just a coping mechanism for not having enough clarity about intended outcomes.

Here we get actionable, with specific format examples, and also suggestions about how to introduce this into a larger company, as well as what it can do to help break down silos.

There are patterns of offline and online collaboration which can supercharge your ability to run interactive meetings. Dig into peer learning as a collaboration tool with Bart Dooerenwert.

Team agreements are a practical way to create a positive remote team culture. Piotr Zagorowski, a remote team manager with 4 years experience, explains the ins and outs of this approach.

Detailed actionable tips from Dean Waye on how to deliver online presentations, both in a sales context and within organizations. Dean has been helping professional speakers deliver content online for close to a decade.

Even though we can't rely on human cues when delivering remote presentations, some people are just killing it. Dean Waye has been helping professional speakers deliver online content for close to a decade. He goes into how to persuade effectively when remote, for sales and operational purposes.

updates from my end, including a few words about the book as well as publishing date change announcement

Working visually and with games and playfulness can help you achieve your company's goals and outcomes...even more effectively than when you don't. And it works online as well as offline.

This episode covers how to adapt a business during the pandemic, including tips on hiring and firing during the pandemic, especially what matters most, and how to plan ahead, when you don't know how the recovery will look.

James Newson discusses activity based working, and using technology as a way to redesign work, both in-office and distributed on larger corporate teams.

Actionable takeaways about working during lockdown and how to think about work life after lockdown, based on input from hundreds of leaders.

Tristan Neagle and Rashmi Ray from DataTruth have interviewed close to a hundred and surveyed several hundred managers about how they are dealing with lockdown. And they share a lot of useful patterns they've discovered, which no one else sees just sitting at their home office desk.

Even before the pandemic, large scale disengagement plagued managers in established companies. Now, as we shift to remote working, we need to go back to first principles in order to re-design how work life will look.