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Effective communication with remote employees
Strategies for building trust and accountability
Techniques for managing remote teams
Schedule mindful meetings
Scheduled meetings don’t have to be long. If you think something should only take 30 or even 15 minutes to discuss, ask for a meeting of that length to be scheduled on your calendar. There’s no need to stretch every conversation out to an hour.
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Set an Away status on IMs
This declaration of your intention to not be available at a certain time can insulate you from the thoughts in the back of your head that “someone might have messaged me about something important” or “I might miss something and annoy someone.”
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Convert commute time into exercise time
Typically in the morning, workout (or at minimum walk your dog). And in the evening, choose to go on more leisurely walks either on your own, with your dog, or as a family.
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Block some time every day for focused work
But one good thing about being at home is that you have physical distance from your coworkers, so you can block focused time and stick with it. Either have recurring focused time in your calendar, such as for an hour or two in the morning. Or that on a weekly basis you block in some chunks of tim...
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Build ways to kill distraction
Look for ways that you can increase the stimulation in your environment without reducing your productivity. That might look like listening to music that helps you get in the flow, using a standing desk, or simply placing your laptop on top of a high counter or bureau, so you can shift your weight...
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Good meetings, bad meetings
Meetings can enable teams to brainstorm, align thinking and take decisive action, but without clear goals, they lose focus. They often bloat – what should be a quick one-on-one conversation becomes an hour-long call requiring entire teams.
Bad meetings hav...
Reduce
- Reduce frequency: Not all meetings need to be weekly. Reduce them to however often you need to stay on track.
- Reduce length: Your default could be 30 minutes or 45 minutes.
- Reduce drive-by meetings: Informal meetings can be valuable. But they can also be ...
Meetings can kill productivity
To avoid over meeting for no reason
- Need to have specific question or specific information that cannot be done by email
- Reduce default time from 1 hour to 30 min
- block meeting free times for your team in their calendar
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