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This title of a HBR article from 2000 seems again very relevant as we are experiencing a massive shift from office to the home office (Schwartz & McCarthy, February 2000). Schwartz et al. argue that organisations are often pushing employees too hard to increase productivity, ignoring people’s need to replenish their physical, emotional, mental, and …
Manage your energy, not your time (part 1) Read More »
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The cover article of the November/December issue of Harvard Business Review features a comprehensive article (by Prithwiraj Choudhury) on remote working, and it inspired me to take a look at the remarkable shift that has taken place during 2020. Choudhury has spent 5 years studying practices of WFA organizations. Literal quotes from his article are shown in …
Working from anywhere: lessons learnt in 2020 Read More »
Read more…Watch this video on YouTube The September 12 issue of The Economist featured the best article on remote working that I have read in a long time. Here is my summary of it. For the full article, click the link at the bottom of this piece. People particularly fond of their pyjamas have for decades …
Working 9 to 5, what a way to make a living Read More »
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Does this picture look more like a car or like a horse carriage? It’s the very first car in history, made by Karl Benz in 1885. The first driver was his wife Bertha Benz a and the driver sat in the back. As people were used to transportation in a horse carriage, it was only …
Virtual facilitation 2.0 or ‘Driving then and driving now’ Read More »
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When it comes to swimming in the deep end of the remote working pool, few companies are doing it at a wider scale than Automattic — the company behind WordPress, which powers 35% of all websites on the internet. This company has 1,170 employees scattered across more 75 countries, speaking 93 languages. They do not have an office, with its employees collaborating almost exclusively online. Automattic’s founder, Mullenweg talks about ‘the five levels of distributed teams’.
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Working virtually with participants from all around the world can be a very exciting experience. It is a fascinating idea that the people you are working with are located thousands of kilometres away from you, whilst we have the impression of virtual closeness: it seems like they are in the same room with you. At …
Chinese participants in Virtual Classroom sessions Read More »
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Daily, people ask us these questions: ‘what platform do you recommend?’ Should I use Zoom or WebEx for my online conference? Can you deliver live training on Microsoft Teams or Google Hangouts’? As a team of live online learning experts, we work with these tools every day and should be in a position to give …
Web meeting platforms – how to find your way through the jungle Read More »
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Since the previous global crisis in 2008, we have been developing virtual classroom training as a team. Through trial & error, step by step, we have found out what works well and what is not a good idea when working with a group in virtual space. Gradually, we refined our training model and found that …
A full day training in the virtual classroom – does that work? Read More »
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The use of online platforms for meetings, training and conferences is becoming ever more popular. For many of us, these tools are part of our daily work and help us to collaborate smoothly with people in other locations. In this blog, we are comparing compare WebEx Training Center* and Zoom from a user perspective. These …
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Why bore your webinar audience when you can make it engaging, interactive and a rich experience?
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