Do you manage remote employees? Whether your company is remote by choice or not yet back in the office due to Covid-19, having a remote team can throw up some challenges as well as some great opportunities. While you might worry that remote employees won’t work so hard when they’re not in the office, the truth is that most people are more productive when working from home. … [Read more...]
Remote Work Isn’t Real until the CEO Says So
Of all the people predicting doom and gloom when entire organizations began to work from home, none were doomier or gloomier than CEOs. Many had resisted implementing wide-ranging work from home options. They had to implement remote work in practically no time, often without a real plan, and hope the company didn’t implode in the process. What were they so worried about? When … [Read more...]
Using DISC to Promote Better Remote Team Communication
There are better ways to learn how to swim than being thrown into the deep end of the pool. That said, should you find yourself in the deep end, you'll learn how to keep yourself afloat or, well...the alternative. Do you notice anything missing in this analogy? If the goal was to learn to swim, being placed in a terrifying, life or death circumstance isn't going to help you … [Read more...]
The Hundredth Monkey Works from Home
What do monkeys have to do with successfully working from home? A recent article from Harvard Business Review online studied how the COVID-19 inspired surge in working from home has impacted business. We’ll probably do a better examination in a future article, but one of the things that surprised the authors was this: Despite all the fears and past bad experience … [Read more...]
Three Ways for Companies to Implement Remote Training and Onboarding Systems During and Beyond COVID-19
By Nicholas Wyman, CEO IWSI America Since the March 2020 outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States, countless companies have expanded telecommuting and remote working situations (many for the first time), relying on IT networks and tools such as Zoom and Slack. Practically overnight, necessity has demanded that our work processes adapt to this new distributed work model. … [Read more...]