Time Blocking: Do Not Disturb
As an Out of Office worker, one of your primary ways of connecting with others is through (on-line) meetings. To make it convenient for others to schedule meetings with you, you can share your calendar...
View Article4 Steps To Set After-Hours Work Expectations
Most of our book is about Out of Office work styles for workers, but much of this work style depends on how their managers treat them. If you’re managing Out of Office workers, one of the most...
View ArticleDo Online Meetings Work?
One of my clients, Michael Harrison, recently spent a month in hospital and 3 months at home following a major medical procedure. This slowed down his work, but didn’t stop it altogether. During that...
View Article4 Ways to Design a Happiness-Inducing Employment Arrangement
Corbett Barr usually writes about the entrepreneurial life, but he sometimes turns his attention to traditional employment as well. He suggests these four things for better workplaces: Let employees...
View ArticleYour Emails Are Too Long
Craig Jarrow, author of The Time Management Ninja, writes in his blog: One of the top reasons your email isn’t getting read is because it is too long. Writing long emails doesn’t mean you are getting...
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Five Steps to Better Collaboration with Online Meetings
Collaboration is the key to business success, but if you find yourself wishing for the “good old days” when everybody in your team was based in the same office and your meetings took place in front of...
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How to Manage a Hostile Meeting
Most meetings are polite and orderly, but occasionally you might be chairing a meeting with hostile participants, conflicting agendas or a controversial topic. Learn how to manage these meetings so you...
View ArticleHow 5 Remote Teams Use Technology To Make Long Distance Work
Out of Office work, although on the rise, is still relatively new, and there are no agreed best practices on how to make it work most effectively. However, there are a number of case studies and...
View ArticleHow To Work When Your Team Is Scattered Across Time Zones
One of the challenges with a distributed team is that different people might be in different time zones. As we become increasingly global and mobile, that is only going to be more common, so it’s...
View ArticleNew Tools for Out of Office Workers
If you’re working in a distributed team, you might already know about some of the more common tools and apps, such as Dropbox, Evernote, iCloud, GoToMeeting, Google Hangouts, Skype, Buffer, and...
View Article5 Ways BYOD Can Increase Productivity
Many organisations struggle with letting employees bringing their devices into the workplace. Full-time Out of Office workers don’t have this problem, but it does affect Semi-Commuters (who work from...
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How to Connect Out-Of-Office Workers In Person
We talk a lot about how to make out of office work effective. But there are still benefits to meeting in person – even if it only happens occasionally. In this episode, we look at various scenarios...
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