21st Century Work Life

This episode is dedicated to Coworking, specifically, to the Impact Hub in King's Cross, London . I speak to Maria Trindade, Will Cardy and Letizia Custodero from Impact Hub and to Luca Turconi, from Accelerance . 00:30 Pilar's introduction. Reflections on her attempt at a Writing/Work Holiday. (Pilar mentions Episode 1, on Work Holidays. ) Why coworking spaces can help with motivation. ( Self-det...

Today's episode is made up solely of a Virtual Coffee with Lisette. Lisette Sutherland and I have a long conversation covering the main problems of working in teams across nations. Have you got anything to add? (If you're interested in leading global teams, you can also listen to this previous episode with Mariano Tufró , on leading global teams.) 01:29 Lisette gives us a very quick update of what...

For more on 21st Century Work Life and working in virtual teams, visit www.virtualnotdistant.com 00:30 Pilar talks about her own experience running a theatre company and how she ended up helping virtual teams. (You can check out Theatrefolk's podcast where todays guest, Lindsay Price interviews Pilar. http://www.theatrefolk.com/podcast/devising-physical-theatre/) 08:45 Lindsay Price, Partner at Th...

This episode includes Virtual Coffee with Lisette. 00:30 Pilar's introduction. She recommends Pocket , UCExpo15. (For the script visit, www.virtualnotdistant.com/results.) 07:01 A story about the different reasons why people might be underperforming. 10:45 Lisette shares how her focusing time working on her book is going and the power of reaching out. The "being-busy syndrome" and when it's way to...

00:30 Pilar talks a bit about how online communities have helped her build relationships and how many businesses are now relying on communities to sell their products. 07:30 Sally describes what Tripbod is and how the company evolved. 12:25 The role of trust and building the Tripbod community. The Responsible Tourism Networking group. 21:00 How Tripbod has changed as a result of becoming part of T...

Please visit www.virtualnotdistant.com/blessing 00:30 Pilar's short intro. 04:55 Lisette's off-piste adventures and her next speaking event. 11:20 We begin our conversation. How organisations are becoming more networked, less hierarchical. 13:30 The curse of "being always on". How technology is helping people taking charge of their own development. (Check out the episode on Yammer, 42:03 ). The or...

00:30 Pilar introduces the podcast, talking a bit about her own experience dubbing e-learning and corporate videos. She has a few tips for you if you're creating products/training to reach your global employees. (For script visit www.virtualnotdistant.com/language-localisation) If you're interested in the world of voiceovers, you should listen to Episode 16 Mike Russell and Music Media Creative an...

Technology is at the heart of the work revolution. We wouldn't be talking so much about virtual teams if we couldn't easily access many, many tools to help us work with others many miles away. But, there are so many collaboration tools out there: how do you choose one for you and your team? Lisette and Pilar hope this episode will help you make a start. For the full show notes, visit www.virtualno...

For more thoughts on this festival and to see the slides from the talk Virtual, not Distant, visit http://virtualnotdistant.com/no-pants-festival-reflections/

Today's guest covers a wide range of subjects: why he set up his blog The Couch Manager , why everyone should set up a blog for professional, personal and financial reasons and we even talk about failure. He's very recently (yesterday!) set up Ganttopia. Hassan Osman is an entrepreneur, author of the Amazon Kindle bestseller Influencing Virtual Teams: 17 Tactics That Get Things Done with Your Remo...

In this episode, we tried something a little bit different. Lisette and I "hanged out" with Phil Montero from The Anywhere Office and talked about the role of the leader and the manager in virtual teams. Most of the conversation involved identifying what teams need to operate and whether it's always the responsibility of the person with the official title to provide this. Virtual teams are turning...

Today's episode includes a Virtual Coffee with Lisette, where we talk about how to organise and lay down the foundations for useful team retrospectives. (We are borrowing the main aspects from the Agile world.) 00: 30 Pilar has some updates, including the live online virtual coffee with Phil Montero and Lisette, next week on Virtual Team Leader: Boss or Facilitator? 04:40 Lisettes's updates. Stand...

00:30 Pilar recommends a TED talk by Ricardo Semler. (transcript can be found in wlpodcast.com) 09:30 Mariano talks about Agility, Mindfulness, Global Teams and Connectivity as four crucial aspects of modern leadership development. 14:20 Reassesing leadership development in the context of global teams. 17:55 Looking for local talent. 20:40 Mariano talks about his own practice in leadership develop...

This podcast focuses on working productively from home. 00:30 Pilar introduces the theme of productivity and some blogs. (Transcript in wlpodcast.com.) 04:13 Kirstin ODonovan, Productivity Coach has a few words to say. 07:15 The importance of clarity. 08:50 Lisette's updates including update on the Happy Melly team and what do we mean by "working well together". Pilar's updates. 18:15 Productivity...

The guest in today's episode is Mike Russell, Creative Director of Music Radio Creative, amongst other things. 00:30 Pilar talks about how the world of voiceover has changed and she has some updates. virtualnotdistant.com/leading-virtual-teams-course/ 09:50 Mike talks about Music Radio Creative and how they help podcasters, djs and other broadcasters. 18:30 New Media Europe 12-13 Sept 2015. What's...

00:45 Pilar talks about "the problem with trust" at work and the Trust Equation, created by the Trusted Advisor. (for transcript check out wlpodcast.com) 10:36 Virtual Coffee with Lisette. 11:20 Pilar and Lisette plug the No Pants Festival. http://www.nopantsfest.be/ 13:00 Lisette talks about her Collaboration Superpowers workshop. 14:30 Trust at work 19:15 Why does video help to build trust? Like...

Pilar talks to Marta Texidor, Customer Success Manager for Microsoft, about how organisations are using Yammer. For the full show notes and pics of both guests, go to www.wlpodcast.com and search for episode 14. 00:30 Pilar shares an event she's taking part in on 25 January 2015. 02:30 Pilar talks about some of the features of Yammer and things to look out for when you're thinking of introducing a...

00:30 Pilar talks about why meetings might be going wrong. ( 08:30 Virtual Coffee with Lisette. Lisette talks a bit about her book Collaboration Superpowers. 12:55 Facilitating Online Meetings and distributing responsibility to make the meeting succesful. 15:30 What can we do to make online meetings succesful? 24:36 Having a back channel to communicate. 32:11 Why are people not "present" in meetin...

00.30 Pilar talks about MOOCs and the use of technology in learning. 12.43 Shannon introduces Udemy and the story of its founder. 16.30 What people are seeking to learn and how the way in which we interact with online learning is changing. 26.00 Udemy for Business and how corporate learning is evolving. 39.50 Pilar introduces her own Udemy course on Leadership and Change. For show notes, visit wlp...

Welcome to a tiny episode of 21 st Century Work Life. I was actually just going to release a note saying that there wouldn’t be an episode today, but as I was about to do that, I got thinking about some work life related stuff and I thought, why not share some of it with you and make a mini-episode out of it. I’m currently away from my usual base but I’m still able to have a presence in social med...

Join Pilar and Lisette for a much longer virtual coffee than usual, recapping some of 2014's work stories and picking some of the trends. Our starting point was a series of articles, which you can find in www.wlpodcast.com. Do share with us your thoughts by commenting on the post with episode 10 or connecting via Twitter: @PilarOrti for myself and @lightling for Lisette. We wish you all the very b...

In this episode, Lisette shares her experience of recruiting four new people onto the virtual team of Happy Melly, of which she is part of. 00.30 Pilar gives a brief intro to the podcast, with some reasons of why this episode might also apply to co-located teams. 03.50 Virtual coffee starts. Lisette talks through what she's up to, including her workshop at the NoPants Festival, 9 March 2015 . 10.1...

What is a coach and why is coaching an important skill to have at work? Pilar talks to Phil Hayes, Chairman of Management Futures. 00.31 Pilar talks a bit about coaching and how our new attitude to work has enabled this profession to grow. (Transcript below.) 09.10 Phil explains what coaching is. 14.30 How leadership in organisations has changed in the past years and how coaching can become an int...

00.30 Pilar talks a bit about why sharing our values might help us work better together. 07.46 What is 'ethical blindness'? 13.45 Virtual coffee with Lisette Sutherland 14.28 Lisette reports back on her experiment on Feedback. 18.45 What do we mean by "values"? Why is this important for virtual teams? 31.50 Cognitive dissonance.

How can digital skills be employed in the workplace? Sinead MacManus talks about the work that Fluency is doing in London and globally to help young people improve their digital skills. 00.30 Pilar talks a bit about Sinead' s work (transcript below) 08.00 Sinead talks about her work with Fluency and the blended learning approach 17.23 Sinead explains what .io stands for 20.35 Are schools (in the U...