A March Mashup of Remote Facilitation
kg-card-begin: html On 18 February 2021, a bunch of facilitators and coaches got together from around the world to share stories from some of their favourite...
Avoiding Dangerous Side Effects of Frameworks
kg-card-begin: html Recently, I completed an inaugural course on a new business marketing framework. Why? Marketing always made me feel uncomfortable because...
The Best Way I've Found To Keep Your Remote Team Connected
Hey worldwide friends, Some things happened recently that reminded me of you and some of the struggles you may have faced keeping your remote teams...
When chat is quiet, it may not be
Recently, I had two similar conversations with leaders about disengaged remote teams. One was with a reader of this newsletter (who I respect greatly as an...
The key to better hybrid-remote work environments
kg-card-begin: html In my prior posts, you may get the impression I don’t see hybrid remote as a viable path. You would be partially correct. As I stated in...
Are you burning the meal or feeding your remote team?
In my home, we have one tradition around Valentine’s Day: I cook my wife a Beef Wellington. I made this for my girlfriend (now wife) on our first Valentine’s...
Is hybrid-remote going backward or forward?
kg-card-begin: html As new vaccines emerge and political transitions move forward (deep breath), I still hear many talking about “going back” to the way...
Do you plan with questions?
I’m always fascinated with how we can use questions to explore new possibilities. My first hint of this was when I started facilitating years ago. A...
Your Next Workplace - Any, all or inclusive remote?
kg-card-begin: html We are all ready to go back to the office. Or are we? As mentioned in my previous post on resilience, your next workplace may adjust work...
Buddy System, Copilots, and Async for Hybrid Remote Work
kg-card-begin: html You may have heard of the working agreement that “when one is remote, all should be remote”. This agreement applies to remote hybrid...
Your Next Workplace - Office, Remote, or Resilience?
kg-card-begin: html 2020 presented many twists and turns for all of us, and there are more to come. In August 2017, I began to co-author a book on successful...
What's the best way to learn and collaborate?
Continuous learning becomes the first thing I look for when I’m asked to work with any knowledge work team. If the teams are not constantly finding ways to...
Your next workplace - 3 considerations
As we are now half way through 2020, I’ve wondered what the workplace will be like for many of us? Will we all be remote? Will we all be in little clear...
Remote Amplifies
kg-card-begin: html Over this first half of 2020, most of the world now knows what long-time remote workers have known for years: Remote amplifies. Remote...
Can you control the change?
You may not have caught my talk about Navigating Change while (Rapidly) Remote. You can find my slides on the Talks page of my website and related blog...
Is there a silver lining to being remote in 2020?
Hello my distributed (but not distant) colleagues. While dark clouds have lingered in 2020, some of us see a silver lining. First, there has been rapid...
Exploring Who Controls Your Meetings by Process and Tools Used Online
kg-card-begin: html As people moved to completely online and distributed work in the early part of 2020, interesting patterns in training and collaboration...
Where are you on your team?
This will be a short update today. I'm working with a new team and was reminded of some things I wanted to share with you.. Often I come across remote teams...
I'm not accepting the new normal in 2020
Me, my 3 kids, and 2 of our cats. I've worked remotely for years. I truly enjoy it. But these last couple of months has even challenged me. Many things have...
Oh no! This group doesn’t use video!
What do you do when you only can only share a screen, an audio line, and chat? How can you possibly keep people engaged? Set up feedback loops where you can....
