Yes, Virtual Presenting Is Weird

Yes, Virtual Presenting Is Weird

November 06, 2020

What is it about virtual presenting that can feel so unnerving? The lack of audience response, the inability to “read the room,” and the lack of direct eye contact all increase our anxiety. Recreating the back and forth of a ...

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Successful Remote Teams Communicate in Bursts

Successful Remote Teams Communicate in Bursts

October 30, 2020

With the Covid-19 pandemic ongoing, the move to an online workplace has become widespread and may well endure. But, as many organisations are learning, managing the flow of communication among remote teams is tricky.

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How to thrive in the next normal of distributed work

How to thrive in the next normal of distributed work

September 18, 2020

Some companies are struggling to keep up with our new normal. Research from Asana reveals nearly half of employees surveyed globally said company-wide goals had been deprioritised since remote working began, with 47 per cent saying those goals have changed at least once during that time – and 60 per cent haven’t increased communication on such issues. 

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Why work management is key for remote team collaboration

Why work management is key for remote team collaboration

September 11, 2020

The global pandemic has left newly remote workers swimming in confusion and struggling to keep up. To shift from today’s state of surviving to a future where teams are thriving, we need tools that make coordinating and collaborating on work effortless. 

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What’s the ROI of a Work Management Platform? A global study

What’s the ROI of a Work Management Platform? A global study

September 09, 2020

Everyone from the CEO to the newest hire wants to be part of an effective team. But in unprecedented times, with an accelerated shift into the future of work, how can organizations achieve clarity on day-to-day tasks and achieve the company mission?

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Lean management or agile? The answer might be both.

Lean management or agile? The answer might be both.

July 17, 2020

Has there ever been a time when customers were more demanding of the companies serving them? Industry 4.0 technologies—many barely imaginable only a decade ago—have already enabled genuine breakthroughs in cost, convenience, and customization, creating extraordinary value for buyers while raising the performance bar for producers ever higher.

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7 Strategies for Promoting Collaboration in a Crisis

7 Strategies for Promoting Collaboration in a Crisis

July 10, 2020

Crises like the Covid-19 pandemic highlight the importance of effective collaboration for long-term commercial success. Particularly in a crisis, organizations need to pull together experts with unique, cross-functional perspectives to solve rapidly changing, complex problems that have long-term implications. 

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The Downside of Flex Time

The Downside of Flex Time

May 15, 2020

Remote work, especially in a world affected by Covid-19, naturally leads to “flex time.” Employees with small children might be getting the majority of their work done at night after the kids are in bed. Others are working early and hoping to quit early. Still, others are starting late and working late.

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How to Combat Zoom Fatigue

How to Combat Zoom Fatigue

May 01, 2020

If you’re finding that you’re more exhausted at the end of your workday than you used to be, you’re not alone. Over the past few weeks, mentions of “Zoom fatigue” have popped up more and more on social media, and Google searches for the same phrase have steadily increased since early March.

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4 weird things that happen when you videoconference

4 weird things that happen when you videoconference

April 10, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic forces many colleges, universities and businesses around the world to move their activity online, connecting online via video is now having its moment.

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Best Practices for Instant Messaging at Work

Best Practices for Instant Messaging at Work

April 04, 2020

“I’ll Slack you.” In workplaces around the world, the name of the popular online messaging system has become a verb, just like Google. Slack has been enthusiastically integrated into the day-to-day functions of legacy corporations and burgeoning startups: The company claims that, in 2019, it hosted 10+ million daily users.

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A Guide to Managing Your (Newly) Remote Workers

A Guide to Managing Your (Newly) Remote Workers

March 20, 2020

In response to the uncertainties presented by Covid-19, many companies and universities have asked their employees to work remotely. While Millions of people report that they work remotely around the world, the new policies leave many employees — and their managers — working out of the office and separated from each other for the first time.

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How distributed teams can optimize collaboration and connection

How distributed teams can optimize collaboration and connection

March 13, 2020

Shaping the future of work is as much about studying the way real people connect and collaborate today as it is about imagining the new tools we’ll be using tomorrow, especially for those who are members of distributed teams.

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What’s Your Company’s Emergency Remote-Work Plan?

What’s Your Company’s Emergency Remote-Work Plan?

March 06, 2020

At the end of February, early March 2020, the coronavirus (or Covid-19) took a more serious turn in Korea, Italy, Spain, UK and the U.S. with warnings that it could very well impact how, when, and where we work.

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How To Develop Soft Skills

How To Develop Soft Skills

February 28, 2020

As automation and artificial intelligence dramatically change the nature of work, employees must fine-tune the social and emotional abilities machines cannot master. To encourage this behaviour, employers must adjust the ways they assess, educate, train and reward their workforce on soft skills such as collaboration, communication and critical thinking.

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How small shifts in leadership can transform your team dynamic

How small shifts in leadership can transform your team dynamic

December 13, 2019

Once upon a time, saying “the soft stuff is the hard stuff” was a snappy challenge to business convention. Now, it’s a cliché. Everyone knows that it’s not easy to suddenly make your colleagues more creative, adaptable, or collaborative, however well-intentioned you may be.

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Mapping the value of employee collaboration

Mapping the value of employee collaboration

November 08, 2019

Although collaboration is at the heart of modern business processes, most companies are still in the dark about how to manage it. Linear, process-based tools such as activity-based costing, business process reengineering, and total quality management have long been effective at measuring and improving the efficiency of people and organisations in accomplishing individual tasks. But ...

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Protecting Company Culture Means Having Rules for Email

Protecting Company Culture Means Having Rules for Email

August 30, 2019

A study out of Virginia Tech University confirms something that just about every knowledge worker already knows: Dealing with after-hours emails produces anxiety which is damaging not only to the worker but to their family, too.

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Does Your Team R.O.C.K. ?

Does Your Team R.O.C.K. ?

August 02, 2019

To learn about teamwork, management gurus tend to study collaboration in companies. Most don’t consider rock ‘n’ roll groups as an appropriate venue for studying teams. After all, what is a life in rock ‘n’ roll, if not a quest to escape the 9-to-5?

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Why Remote Work Thrives in Some Companies and Fails in Others

Why Remote Work Thrives in Some Companies and Fails in Others

November 06, 2017

Since people began telecommuting decades ago, companies have been excited about the prospects to increase productivity, reduce costs, and gain access to a much larger talent pool.

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