21st Century Work Life

In this episode, Pilar talks to David Burkus, author of "Under New Management", an overview of those organisations experimenting with new ways of leading teams and managing people. visit www.virtualnotdistant.com If you would like to be a Beta Reader of "Online Meetings that Rock", please click here: http://bit.ly/betameeting David Burkus is the author of Under New Management: How Leading Organisa...

Have we got a treat for you today. In this episode, both Lisette and Pilar talk to T Briseno, Happiness Engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. visit www.virtualnotdistant.com T. shares what her job as Happiness Engineer entails and how she interacts directly with customers through video meetings. This really helps her to feel connected to the work and see the results of her work...

In this episode, Pilar talks about the importance of thinking holistically about introducing "remote" into an organisation: how will it change a company's culture? How will it challenge people's identities? Visit www.virtualnotdistant.com   It's the summer, and things have slowed down, which I really appreciate. London is quieter, the internet is quieter, which means I have more time to think and...

In this episode, Pilar talks to Syrus Lowe about his work in the theatre, in role-play companies and presenting. The diverse things that Syrus has been doing over the last 12 months. Being involved in the live streaming performance of St Joan at the Donmar Warehouse. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/saint-joan-donmar-warehouse-london-review-gemma-artertons-joan...

  In this episode, Pilar and Lisette talk about the kind of mindset remote team managers can embrace that will make their lives easier.   Lisette tells us about her experience running a webinar in Japan. This is the article Lisette and Pilar use to guide us through the conversation. Six Traits of Leaders Who Successfully Manage Remote Employees https://www.forbes.com/sites/markmurphy/2016/06/10/6-...

In this episode, Pilar talks to Olivia Jones, a freelance copywriter based in London about being freelance and dealing remotely with clients.  Check out Olivia's blog: http://goldenpulse.co.uk/ The transition to freelance and deciding what area to focus on. Working with freelancers in other countries when she was a project manager. How being a project manager has helped her to go freelance. How ca...

In this episode, Pilar advocates for an Office Optional approach, where the office becomes one more place where we can work from and how the nature of how we work in those spaces needs to change.   Why "Office Optional" is a slightly better term than using some of the words that suggest there is a large physical distance between team members. (There is a complementary blog post to this episode: ht...

In this episode, Pilar and Lisette discuss a few articles that have caught their eye over the past weeks.  (1) Pilar and Lisette discuss a worrying new statistic: one in five employees in the UK are afraid to ask their managers to move onto flexible working. What's going on? Articles about flexible working: http://www.bmmagazine.co.uk/news/one-five-employees-afraid-ask-flexible-working/ https://ww...

In this episode Pilar talks to David Horowitz, co-founder and CEO of Retrium about why he created a tool to guide teams through retrospectives and how he's growing a distributed business. How we fall in and out of love with tools. The origins of Retrium. Pre-build facilitation techniques in a package. https://www.retrium.com/ (If you would like some inspiration on running retrospectives or review...

In  this episode, Pilar and Lisette talk about their recent experience being involved in a day online event on working in virtual teams.  This might be of interest if you are involved in organising a virtual event for your team or community.  visit www.virtualnotdistant.com Lisette's update, she's found the perfect editor! The Internal Affair and Virtual Team Talk The diversity of opinions even in...

In this episode, Pilar talks to Brie Reynolds, Senior Career Specialist at Flexjobs, about taking control of your career when working remotely. www.virtualnotdistant.com Flexjobs has been around now for ten years, enabling people to find telecommuting jobs and other flexible jobs. Brie works there as Senior Career Specialist.  Brie's job is to help people find those jobs and she does so in a varie...

In this episode, Pilar and Lisette analyse a recent article by Patrick Lencioni where he recommends to stay away from working as a virtual team. Visibility in Virtual Teams from the website. Scroll down the Inspiration page. https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/inspiration Other podcasts: Management Café Evidence Talks 1) Lisette's holiday Why it's so important to keep down stress levels. David Burku...

Welcome to a special episode of the 21st Century Work Life podcast, where I share with you my main reflections after attending the Work 2.0 conference last May 2017, in London and where I bring in the thoughts and opinions of other attendees. Don't forget to visit www.virtualnotdistant.com   Thank you too to everyone who very kindly agreed to taking part in this episode, it means that listeners ge...

In this episode, Pilar and Lisette share their favourite online tools and why they work for them. Can you add any to the list? visit www.virtualnotdistant.com How important are tools? Get out your pen and paper - or your favourite note-taking app! Lisette mentions HuddleWall (though she hasn't tried it out yet). TRELLO We talk about Trello!!!!! (Planner is the Microsoft 365 version.) Find out more...

In this episode, Pilar talks to Chris Slemp about working out loud with teams, creating a collaboration environement and I how remote work has the potential of changing the structure of society.  visit www.virtualnotdistant.com A little bit of an intro from Chris. https://medium.com/@cslemp/leaving-a-global-company-to-change-the-world-b083839a2d0e How Carpool works and how they track how communica...

Steve Holyer shares why he works as Product Owner coach (amongst other things) and the importance of allowing teams to find how they best have fun together. visit www.virtualnotdistant.com  for information on our training, coaching and consultancy services A short description of "Agile" and why Steve coaches Scrum Product Owners. The ever-changing role of the Product Owner. Working with distribute...

The programme of the Work 2.0 conference, in London, 25 & 26 May 2017, gives a good overview of what companies are addressing when they plan for the future of their workforce. In this episode, Pilar shares some of the session titles that have grabbed her attention.  You can find the programme here: http://www.terrapinn.com/conference/work2/index.stm Pilar will be covering the conference in a futur...

Pilar talks to Paul Thoresen about developing teams, trust, and using surveys in organisations.  Visit www.virtualnotdistant.com  for information on our training, coaching and consultancy services.  Paul on Twitter https://twitter.com/surveyguy2 Paul on Medium https://medium.com/@SurveyGuy2 Paul talks about what he learned during his attendance to the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psyc...

Pilar mentions this episode from HBR IdeaCast, broadcast on 14 July 2016 "We Can't Work All the Time" https://hbr.org/ideacast/2016/07/we-cant-work-all-the-time.html Challenging the identity of the person who sees themselves as a different individual at work and at home. Work-life balance doesn't always mean work-family balance. You might want to check out the 27 March 2017 episode of Business Dai...

In today's episode, Pilar talks through the things we can tweak as individuals, to make our virtual meetings comfortable. 19:25mins Virtual meetings are gradually becoming one more way of talking to those you work with. And if organisations want their employees from different departments to network with each other, to increase the chances of innovation, they should be encouraging the use of video...

In today's episode, Pilar and Lisette share their experiences in virtual coworking and highlight those elements that can be applied to working in a virtual team. Check out www.virtualnotdistant.com for coaching and training for managers of virtual teams or to help with the transition to remote. Check out www.collaborationsuperpowers.com for the Work Together Anywhere Workshop Updates - Lisette sha...

What contributes to team members trusting each other in virtual teams? In today's episode, we present a range of thoughts, questions and suggestions to help maintain trust in virtual teams. visit www.virtualnotdistant.com "If we don't have the trust, eventually you don't have a team, you have a bunch of individuals that are sort of working together, but not really working together towards the same...

This is the full version of our live broadcast earlier in the year. For an edited version of the conversation, with other thoughts and reflections, and show notes, check out episode 117.  visit www.virtualnotdistant.com

In today's episode, Lisette and Pilar continue their conversation about how the collocated space can evolve by adopting virtual teamwork practices. (Don't forget to visit www.virtualnotdistant.com to check out our services and more blog posts and podcast show notes.) Quite a long catch-up today, but it's all related to our theme... How Sococo is now the first place where Pilar looks for Lisette wh...

In today's episode, Pilar talks with Eva Rimbau-Gilabert about a recent piece of research on how "managing up" tactics differ between collocated and virtual workers (those in close physical proximity to the manager and those working away from the office). The research that Eva shares was conducted by Sebastián Steizel, who is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the University of San Andrés (B...