21st Century Work Life

Pilar talks to Dom Price from Atlassian about how to maintain a playful, collaborative mindset in a growing organisation. visit www.virtualnotdistant.com Introduction Pilar mentions these other podcast episodes that might be of interest: https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/podcasts/trello-and-coffee (with Brian Cervino from Trello) https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/evolve-rituals-include-remo...

There are some questions we ask ourselves when designing our physical collaboration space. We can use most of these questions to design our online collaboration space too. visit www.virtualnotdistant.com Pilar attended this event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/experimenting-with-workspace-an-interactive-experience-tickets-41004688126# The importance of the location of toilets in the workplace htt...

Fernando Polo describes his company's journey towards salary transparency, and tells us why they're moving towards self-setting salaries at Good Rebels. visit www.virtualnotdistant.com Pilar mentions this article about millenials and their attitude towards salary transparency: https://amp-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.businessinsider.com/millennials-are-breaking-the-one-big-salary...

Current research suggests that having text-based debates can diminish our perception of the other person and that audio-only conversation can build more empathy than that involving also visual elements. What does this mean for virtual teams? visit www.virtualnotdistant.com Pilar and Maya discuss the article: Why You Should Never Ever Argue with Anyone on Facebook According to Science https://www.i...

Laura Roeder, founder of Meet Edgar, talks about how her company is structured and the role that clarity and transparency play in ensuring the right culture-employee fit. visit www.virtualnotdistant.com What is Meet Edgar, why it was set up and how. https://meetedgar.com/ Bootstrapping it, decisions around funding in the company. How Meet Edgar was/is funded and why Laura decided not to raise any...

Pilar has a go at translating this great summary of the world of work, written by the Spanish organisation Future for Work Institute.  You can have a look at the original article here:  http://www.futureforwork.com/noticias/nuestra-primera-navidad-juntos Don't forget to visit www.virtualnotdistant.com  for more on remote work. Happy 2018!

Pilar and Lisette review the last year and look forward to see what 2018 might bring. visit www.virtualnotdistant.com "Leadership in Remote Teams" online course 12 – 23 Feb 2018 www.virtualnotdistant.com/open-workshops/ Why Lisette won't be joining us for the first two months of 2018. The difficulty of saying "no" and how difficult it is to hear it. Last year's episode was episode 104 www.virtualn...

Maya Middlemiss shares her experiences as a freelancer and joining Virtual not Distant and Management 3.0. visit www.virtualnotdistant.com Check out our new open course Leadership in Remote Teams, starting in February 2018. We also deliver in-house. https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/open-workshops/ Find out more about the VIRTUAL not Distant® framework from this episode with Pilar on the More Time...

Pilar hops on the microphone for this Fickle Friday episode:  Reflections on one of my jobs today as a voiceover. No personal stuff, no quick round robin of how everyone was feeling or any "chit chat". And yet we did a cracking job. So, why do we insist on sharing so much when we work with others in a team? (And to find out more about Pilar's work as a voiceover artist, check out "Hi, I'm Here for...

In this episode, Pilar talks about the fears that arise around the use/overuse of technology when we introduce a remote setup. visit www.virtualnotdistant.com In this episode, Pilar talks about the fears that arise around the use/overuse of technology when we introduce a remote setup. In the second part of the episode, she talks about the new open course run by Virtual not Distant. Check out this...

Pilar talks to Elise Keith, co-founder of Lucid Meetings. We talk about why "training how to run meetings" often fails and why you should take a holistic approach when trying to improve meetings in your organisation. visit www.virtualnotdistant.com Pilar mentions the new course on Leading Remote Teams, which will run from 12 – 23 February 2018. More information here: https://virtualnotdistant.squa...

A short rambling by Pilar on how the word "learning" is usually used to mean information-absorption or acquiring new skills, rather than the broadest meaning, whereby we are constantly adjusting our behaviour and changing how we do things.  Plus, how assumptions landed Pilar on the wrong side of town to her friend. 

Working out loud takes effort and energy – and it becomes really hard to do when we are struggling with the work or when we are afraid of breaking the "good vibe" of the team or of not being a "positive team member". visit www.virtualnotdistant.com Links mentioned in the updates: Our listener Steve recommends: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/secret-behind-happy-productive-companies-brian-de-haaff P...

Morgan Legge from Convert.com shares the company's journey adopting a "holacratic approach". visit www.virtualnotdistant.com What Convert does and what the original team looked like. www.convert.com Why the company decided to go down the Holacracy route: "to give people the freedom to make decisions that would grow the company in the direction that it needed to grow." They haven't yet formally ado...

There are many ways of learning from others in our remote team: through asking for feedback and running activities where we can learn from each other. visit www.virtualnotdistant.com A few updates: Lisette is looking for beta readers and there will be a range of ways in which to give her feedback on her book. To do so, sign up to her newsletter: https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/ Why are co...

Is asking "which tool when" the right question to be asking? And how is a training programme for remote team managers different to that for office-based managers? visit www.virtualnotdistant.com We welcome Maya to Virtual not Distant. You can read her first contribution to our blog here: https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/blog/presenteeism-in-remote-teams Thanks to guest Chris Slemp, who tells us a...

visit www.virtualnotdistant.com We meet Sandra Lewis, founder and CEO of Worldwide101, a company made up of premium virtual assistants. Please note, that Worldwide101 has rebranded as BOLDLY . Sandra talks about how she set up the company, after noticing the number of freelancer websites popping up. She talks about how she assembled the team, the importance of values and of loving to work remotely...

visit www.virtualnotdistant.com Why does everyone want to be "busy" all the time and why are so many of us rushing around? Join Pilar and Lisette for today's virtual coffee. Thanks to our listener Louise for her feedback on the article we discussed in episode 140 on sensors in the workplace. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/barclays-bank-sensors-a7901566.html Pilar mentions two other shows: Manag...

visit www.virtualnotdistant.com In today's episode, Richard A. MacKinnon explains the concept of psychological flexibility and how we can change our behaviour to be values-led rather than emotion-led. If you enjoy this episode, check out the ten episodes of the Management Café podcast and Evidence Talks. http://www.worklifepsych.com/ Richard on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WorkLifePsych Psychologi...

Further reflections after yesterday's episode on how employees are being tracked so that customers can get better service.  I also came across this article to complement our short discussion on the nature and future of education:  Who's Building the Infrastructure for Lifelong Learning by Linda Gratton.  http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/whos-building-the-infrastructure-for-lifelong-learning/

Visit www.virtualnotdistant.com In this episode, Pilar and Lisette discuss five articles that have caught their eye in the last few months. (1) Scraping data from LinkedIn to get insights into your employees. Hmm… "The law's authors could not possibly have envisioned such a scenario when drawing up the bill. (You'll hear that often - this isn't the first time an ancient law has been crowbarred int...

Before contacting me to appear in the podcast, or on behalf of a potential guest, please listen to this episode.  If you are a listener, go ahead just sent me a note, we don;t have to record a full episode, anything will do. Just email me and we can talk. Or go to virtualnotdistant.com and use the contact form. If you've just come across the podcast and think it might be good to appear in it, make...

Just touching base with you today while I catch up with the backlog of conversations. Here's a little blog post that was quite popular last month: "How to Stop Worrying about Whether People are Getting the Work Done at Home". If you prefer to read the blog post, here's the link: https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/blog/how-do-you-measure-results-in-remote-team

In this episode, Pilar explains the benefits of having regular update meetings with your remote team. visit www.virtualnotdistant.com Pilar mentions this article by Amy Edmondson and Bror Saxberg Putting Lifelong Learning on the CEO Agenda. http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/putting-lifelong-learning-on-the-ceo-agenda (We cover Psychological Safety also in Episode...

In this episode Pilar talks to Nancy Settle-Murphy about the challenges of working with people based in other countries. visit  www.virtualnotdistant.com In the introduction, Pilar shares the different reasons why people might not be acting on feedback, or asking for clarification: Avoiding losing face Seeking harmony Unconditional respect for authority Lack of trust She mentions this previous epi...