Leadership Memo 2020-3 “The art of leadership consists in bringing and keeping people in the highest performance levels, and this happens when people are in the best state of personal well-being.” - Daniel Goleman I think we can all agree…
Tag: Ways of Working
Hiring Reimagined
Leadership Memo 2020-2 Being a manager is hard. You are no longer working in the domain you are an expert in. There are additional responsibilities that you need to do. Most likely, you don’t like those responsibilities. Being a good…
I need my tools. Where are they?
One question I keep being asked is what the best tools to use in online meetings are. I also hear complaints about companies’ IT not allowing the use of certain tools. First, let’s be clear about what tools we are…
Ready to go back to the office, anyone?
Leadership Memo 2020-1 We have all been working remotely for the past few months, and you may think you got the hang of remote working. You figure out what meetings to call, what doesn’t need a meeting, you learn how…
Tips on how not to feel overwhelmed in this unusual time
Lisa finds herself more and more overwhelmed with this “work from home” thing. She has a lot of meetings, then she has actual work to do, and the home stuff is also piling up. She constantly worries about missing things…
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Wonder why you are more exhausted after a day of online meetings?
After working from home for a month, Peter finds himself more exhausted than working in the office for 10+ hours a day. He also finds that he has developed some terrible habits, one of them being sitting in the same…
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Meeting as usual? Think again
In the last post, I mentioned I’ll talk about how to decide what meetings to call. You may ask, why do I need to think about that? I already have all the meetings I need on my calendar, I just…
What if your meeting attendees refuse to turn on video cameras?
Now that we all have been forced to work from home for almost a month, did you run into these 2 scenarios: You’ve never worked remote before and you’re suddenly forced to work remote, so you’re searching online and asking…
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