21st Century Work Life - Remote Working, Virtual Teams And Flexible Working

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The world of work is changing. Our attitudes to work are changing. The 21st Century Work Life podcast looks at different ways of earning a living, of using technology at work and of managing teams. If you're working in a conventional office, if you're part of a virtual team or if you just want to find out how our attitudes to work keep evolving, join Pilar Orti and guests every week. And pop in every other week for virtual coffee with Lisette Sutherland.Pilar Orti blogs at Virtual, not Distant.

Episodios

  • WLP122 Agile, coaching and hacked retrospectives

    17/05/2017 Duración: 56min

    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 distributed agile teams and what happens when they start to play hard during retrospectives. How retrospectives help teams work better together. Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen. https://www.amazon.com/Agile-Retrospectives-Making-Teams-Great/dp/0977616649/ Working collocated and working distributed. When retrospectives get hacked. Finding out what "fun at work" means for your team and working within that. Pilar mentions "The Science of Great Teams", a study by Sandy Pentland. How this playful team continues to work together. www.coachingcocktails.com Creating a live community meet

  • Fickle Friday: Work 2.0 Conference Preview and Discount Code

    12/05/2017 Duración: 08min

    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 future episode. If you would like to attend the conference, we have a 15% discount for you. www.terrapinn.com/virtual  use the code: WXWW

  • WLP121_Building Teams and Diagnosing Organisations

    11/05/2017 Duración: 01h47s

    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 Psychology' conference in Orlando. http://www.siop.org/conferences/17con/ The importance of change management for organisational psychology professionals, most of what we introduce in organisations is going to involve change. Experimenting vs piloting; they're different things. Look for Episode 9 of the Evidence Talks podcast with Paul http://www.futureworkcentre.com/what-we-do/education/evidencetalks/ There's a lot of research at the moment around teams. Paul recommends us to check out the work of Suzanne Bell https://twitter.com/TeamsLab Teams and groups; not everyone forms a team and that's ok! Sentiment anal

  • WLP120 Work-Life What? Balance? Fusion? Interference?

    04/05/2017 Duración: 30min

    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 Daily. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04xd4jy Are customising your notifications the key to achieving separation of work and non-work activities? Work-life balance Work life integration Work-home interference https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/report/2017/working-anytime-anywhere-the-effects-on-the-world-of-work Does job insecurity contribute to stress if you work from home? Unusual suspects who want flexibility in the work: Lisette and Pilar! Don't forget to visit www.virtualnotdistant.com

  • WLP119 Making Virtual Meetings Comfortable

    27/04/2017 Duración: 19min

    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 meetings.  Talking to others through a screen might feel a bit unnatural if you're not used to it, so here are five things to look out for to help you feel at ease.  (For episodes on running virtual meetings, check out episode 107 Facilitating Virtual Meetings with Nancy Settle-Murphy and episode 13 on Collocated and Virtual Meetings (1) Pay attention to your background and any windows behind you. (2) Remember that you have a chat function. (3) Remember that you can mute yourself. (Don’t wait for others to get so fed up with you they mute you!) (4) Do you need to see yourself? Pilar mentions this article htt

  • WLP118 What Virtual CoWorking can Teach Virtual Teams

    20/04/2017 Duración: 51min

    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 shares her experience hiring virtual freelancers - and she has great tips! - We share this article which suggests you're better off hiding your image from yourself during video meetings http://www.hrdive.com/news/study-videoconferencing-is-more-effective-when-you-cant-see-yourself/439772/ - Amazon has created 5,000 new US remote jobs http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/amazon-to-hire-5000-at-home-workers-in-massive-hiring-binge-of-30000-part-time-employees/429755118 - Pilar has been listening to the Leading Wisely podcast with Ricardo Semler and guests and she's loving it! http://podcast.leadwise.co/ Lessons f

  • WLP117 A Question of Trust- a Virtual Team Talk special

    13/04/2017 Duración: 55min

    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 purpose.” (Mark Kilby) History of Virtual Team Talk and this project 06:50mins "What level of trust does my team need, right now, to be effective?" Calculated Trust: You follow the rules because the cost of not doing so is greater then the value of breaking the rule. How Trust Emerges 13:10mins Self-Awareness: What helps us to build trust, how does my behaviour impact how others trust me You can read the blog post about the first meeting we had in virtualteamtalk.com In this episode you will hear the voices of Mark Kilby, who’s an agile coach working in a company called Sonatype, which is 95% distributed. They ha

  • Extra WLP117 Full conversation on trust in virtual teams

    13/04/2017 Duración: 47min

    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

  • WLP116 How Remote Work Affects Office Life (part 2)

    06/04/2017 Duración: 54min

    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 when she needs to speak to her online and how the different rooms can induce a different mindset. (Hello, Terrance!) (Join Virtual Team Talk to experience virtual co-working and be part of a group of people championing great ways of working remotely with others.) Lisette met Voranc and Ralph in person at a Management 3.0 retreat and it confirmed how much of a bond they'd already built just through online communication. Pilar went to a launch party of a game she voiced and she noticed how strange it feels to watch photos of people working in the office together. We talk about this recent article in Quartz about th

  • WLP115 Managing Up when Being Remote

    30/03/2017 Duración: 38min

    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 (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Eva was director of the thesis. http://www.tdx.cat/bitstream/handle/10803/369313/Sebasti%C3%A1n%20Steizel%20Tesis%20Doctorado%20.pdf?sequence=1 Eva Rimbau-Gilabert's Twitter handle: @erimbau 06:20 Different tactics that people use to influence their boss and how they differ in use between virtual workers and collocated workers.  Ingratiation Rationality Assertiveness Coalition Intermediation Upward appeal 13:00 The use of technology and how this changes when people try to influence their boss.  Synchronous vs asynchronous.  16:54 The importance of synchronous communication to give

  • Fickle Friday: Cognitive Tunneling

    17/03/2017 Duración: 08min

    Pilar introduces the concept of Cognitive Tunneling, after a couple of things that happened yesterday to her. And she recommends "Smarter, Faster, Better" bu Charles Duhigg, once again... visit www.virtualnotdistant.com

  • WLP114 How Remote Work affects Office Life (part 1)

    16/03/2017 Duración: 57min

    In this episode, Pilar and Lisette talk about how having a remote set-up and a flexible workforce affects how we work in the office. 55mins  visit www.virtualnotdistant.com What is "remote" anyway? Even people working across different floors perceive themselves as being distant from each other. Another great advocacy point for adapting the office to remote working. It will benefit teamwork that happens across floors, not just those working outside the building. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/SupportingDistributedTeamwork.pdf Where is the information rather than who has the information. http://blog.idonethis.com/remote-company/ This doesn't just make us more productive, it also stops hierarchies forming around who holds the information. Not to mention that people can leave on holiday (or leave the company) without leaving gaps of information in the team. Can some behaviours around availability and reflection become more acceptable? It seems to be more acceptable not to b

  • WLP113 Different Conversations need Different Tools

    09/03/2017 Duración: 31min

    In this episode, Pilar talks about what happens when people speak different languages in the office, how many people still reject having online interactions and the difficulties of working out loud in virtual teams.  Get in touch with your thoughts through www.virtualnotdistant.com When speaking a different language in the office is a problem. Finding out whether it's a sign of something else going on. Having informal conversations and avoiding directives.  Pilar mentions this Today programme http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08g2ty8  which talks about how The Care Quality Commision in the UK has issued a warning about two online doctor services, which can also prescribe medicines. If you want to read more about this particular issue, go here: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/03/cqc-warns-online-doctor-services-may-pose-risk-to-public  Leaving the whole unreliability of some services to one side, and the state of the health service, why are we not embracing online video interactions? A video

  • WLP112 Learning in Virtual Teams

    02/03/2017 Duración: 43min

    In today's episode, Pilar and Lisette share some of the ways in which they learn about themselves, their work and their colleagues. Online Learning does not mean watching videos! (1) Overview What do we mean by "learning"? Kolb's cycle. Involves change. A lot of our learning is experiential. Experience (concrete experience) Reflect (reflective observation) Theorise, generalise (abstract conceptualisation) How could it work next time? Plan. (active experimentation) From "How do I use the tool?" to "How do I approach you?" Just in case (most formal learning) vs Just in Time (most informal learning)  (2) Informality Spectrum Social aspect of learning - learning from others through their point of view; building empathy From chatting over coffee to structured events.  (3) Specific examples of learning through Virtual TT Trust - learning about topic but also about turning knowledge conversations into content. Formal - learn about trust; informal, learn about others, myself Lean coffee and mentoring - formal / sel

  • WLP111 Courageous Conversations

    23/02/2017 Duración: 47min

    Sam Mednick introduces herself. She's an audacious journalists and also a member of the Happy Melly team.  Sam talks about what it's like to work in Happy Melly One. It seems difficult to separate happiness at work from happiness in life in general. It's ok now to admit that what happens in life affects our work and viceversa.  What makes trust possible in this virtual team? Sam talks about sharing values and having honest conversations and touching base with each other on video.  Pilar mentions "Faster, Smarter, Better" by Charles Duhigg and psychological safety.  Executive Coaching and current challenges executives face.  The nature of coaching, it need not be remedial.  Check out Sam's website: Blueprint Coaching.  Sam's podcast series around Courageous Conversations Sam shares what has helped people to have these difficult conversations. (Yes, step by step...) Sam's "appointment with herself". Why does she do it and what is this "high-level meeting"? What drives Sam to conflict zones? What does sh

  • WLP110 Security in Remote Teams

    16/02/2017 Duración: 41min

    We talk about protecting our work when working outside the office.  INTRO and Catch-up Duncan featured us! http://banoffeesolutions.co.uk/archive/podcasts-for-remote-working/ Programming and Data Science blog by Duncan Thomson We recommend that you watch The Newsroom Join us for Virtual Team Talk.  Sococo has a new "meetings" feature, which makes it easy to organise meetings in the space and also to tap someone on the shoulder to let them know you want to talk to them, and they can easily refused. The Main Conversation We're looking at security from three points of view. From the organisation: Can I trust the people? Can i trust the tools? And for both organisations and individuals "Am i/Are we safe?" Having a policy.  Remember that people can look over your shoulder and read your emails... Can employees from the external tools we use read our data? Business Daily Protecting Your Online Data, 1 Feb 2017 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04qnwh4 In Business How Safe Are your Secrets Aug 2016 http://www.b

  • WLP109 Where Digital meets Print

    09/02/2017 Duración: 30min

    In today's episode, Pilar talks to Caroline Crampton, Assistant Editor of the New Statesman magazine.  Get in touch through www.virtualnotdistant.com Caroline explains her role as Assistant Editor of the New Statesman, where she works mainly on the print version of the magazine. What does a "hybrid publication" look like? How does it sustain itself? Caroline talks us through the different tasks that make up her role and gives us a brief history of the New Statesman. Caroline's podcast with Anna Leszkiewicz, the SRSLY podcast. Why she started the podcast and how she engages with her listeners through live events. Listening for pleasure or professional interest: work/life integration From podcast listener to podcasting and Caroline's Podcast column in the New Statesman. http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/podcasts/2016/10/why-it-s-time-start-writing-about-podcasts-culture Caroline mentions one of her latest posts: http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/podcasts/2017/02/who-tells-your-story-how-hamilton-fans-are

  • Working from Home - a Fickle Friday episode

    03/02/2017 Duración: 05min

    A short, on the go episode inspired by a recent conversation from a manager who had been told that people "could now work from home". Find out what works, don't rely on your experience when you do it on ad-hoc basis. You can't just say, "Ok, you can now work from home". You need to lay down a new infrastructure. It's a change programme!

  • WLP108 The Four Pillars Of Remote Teamwork

    02/02/2017 Duración: 56min

    In this episode, we talk about the four areas of teamwork you should address in your remote team. Introduction: What Caught Our Eye? RSI and general health when working with so much tech. More or Less 3 Jan Does Sweden Really have a Six Hour Day? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04n7vlg Pilar mentions Companies Without Managers, the episode from In Business that talks about the Buurtzorg model. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03045tx We talk about the introduction of Slack threaded messages and the importance of revising your communication norms; pros and cons for teams and communities. https://slackhq.com/threaded-messaging-comes-to-slack-417ffba054bd#.gx6t5ndmt Lisette mentions this episode 46 from The Future Work podcast https://thefutureorganization.com/forget-work-life-balance-its-all-about-work-life-integration/ If you would like to join Virtual Team Talk: https://virtualteamtalk.com/ Zoom's cash injection: http://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2017/01/17/ceo-announcement-zoom-partners-with-sequoia-in-100-

  • WLP107 Facilitating Virtual Meetings

    26/01/2017 Duración: 57min

    In this episode, Pilar Orti talks to Nancy Settle-Murphy about how she facilitates online and hybrid meetings.  Having conversations in public when you meet someone for the first time. Being a coach/trainer/facilitator Who does Nancy work with? Hybrid meetings. Nancy talks about one of her clients and why they decide to hold hybrid meetings. Involving people calling into the in person meeting in activities. Using the technology wisely. Making online team meetings work. Does splitting responsibilities in a meeting translate into how the team operates outside of meetings? Should roles be assigned by the manager? The changes that Nancy has seen throughout her 22 years working as a virtual meeting facilitator. Are there more international teams now in corporations? It's the ability to collaborate asynchronously that's evolved and changed how we operate. The assumptions we make when we're using the same language. "The hope is that we mean the same things when we say something, but in the virtual world we need to

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