Remote Control

What to do when a new team member starts are your team is working virtually?

The tips come from this blog post written by PhilHSC and they include:

•Have email and productivity tools all set up before the new team member arrives

•Assign them a buddy to help answer questions

•As a leader, invest time with them each day for the first week

•Have some fun, help them set up a Zoom background (Canva Tutorial)

Our question for you is how do you virtually onboard a new team member? Let us know by sending us an email >> [email protected]

You can also learn more about Mel here and Phil here.

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The adrenaline that fuelled your team to shift to virtual working is starting to run low. So how do you bring them together?

Today's tip has two parts. First, continuously express clear mission intent (like a broken record) and then over-communicate to help your team remember why they joined your team in the first place!

We know this is a tricky area so how are you managing this change in momentum?

Let us know by via email >>> [email protected]

You can also learn more about Mel here and Phil here.

This show is dedicated to helping you master working from home. If you'd like to pay it forward, share this episode with someone who needs to hear it or leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (they make a bigger difference than you think!)

Do you have a battle tested snack plan? Because we might need some help :)

Let us know > [email protected]

You can also learn more about Mel here and Phil here.

This show is dedicated to helping you master working from home. If you'd like to pay it forward, share this episode with someone who needs to hear it or leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (they make a bigger difference than you think!)

This is one of those tips that is important no matter what environment you're in, but also one that often gets forgotten in the virtual world - recognising and celebrating the team's success.

•Religiously celebrate successes each week (a weekly email sent at the same time and a conversation over weekly virtual drinks is a great way to do this)

•Welcome every team member to talk about their small wins for the week

•Don't limit the successes to milestones and productivity, have some fun with it! Did you get laundry done? Did you survive home schooling? Did you hit that at home exercise target?

And don't forget to send your work from home tips to [email protected]

You can also learn more about Mel here and Phil here.

This show is dedicated to helping you master working from home. If you'd like to pay it forward, share this episode with someone who needs to hear it or leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (they make a bigger difference than you think!)

Today's tip is simple: Set up and keep dedicated one on one meetings with your team!

People are starting to realise that working from home could be here to stay, at least for foreseeable future. One on one times become an essential time for important conversations that cover everything from productivity, to mental health and to finding those all important rainbows in the storm clouds.

So what's working for you at home?

Send us your work from home tips to [email protected] and we'll share them on the show!

By the way, you can also learn more about Mel here and Phil here.

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It's simple. Do coffee with someone else, virtually. Start the day with someone that makes you smile.

By the way, what's you morning coffee? Send us an email here to let us know!

Don't forget to send your #WFM tips to [email protected]

You can also learn more about Mel here and Phil here.

This show is dedicated to helping you master working from home. If you'd like to pay it forward, share this episode with someone who needs to hear it or leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (they make a bigger difference than you think!)

Don't go it alone!

That's the punchline for today's episode.

Key thoughts:

•Establish a small group of people to help you crack problems

•Find ways to make it worth their while by offering to return the favour

•Respect their time by batching together questions and share with them what you already know about the problem or issue based on the conversations you've already had (in other words, pay the knowledge forward!)

So how are we doing?

Send your work from home tips to [email protected]

You can also learn more about Mel here and Phil here.

This show is dedicated to helping you master working from home. If you'd like to pay it forward, share this episode with someone who needs to hear it or leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (they make a bigger difference than you think!)

When you first start working from home it can be easy to lose the distinction between work and home.

Today's tip is all about how to find ways to mark the end of the day and signal to yourself and your family you're going from WFH to home!

Putting the work stuff in a box or shutting the door only gets us partway there.

Create a ritual by asking these two questions:

•Is there anything that happened or that I learned today that I need to pick up tomorrow?

•What is the most important thing for me to do tomorrow?

Easy!

Before we go, we'd like to ask you a quick question: How are you going?

We'd love to know how else we can help. Better yet, send your work from home tips to: [email protected]

You can also learn more about Mel here and Phil here.

This show is dedicated to helping you master working from home. If you'd like to pay it forward, share this episode with someone who needs to hear it or leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (they make a bigger difference than you think!)

As we've seen repeatedly from the different approaches taken by world leaders over the last few weeks, trust is critical in getting teams, companies and countries through a crisis.

In this episode we talk about four tips to strengthen trust with your team when working remotely:

•As the leader, establish intent (and become a broken record at communicating that intent)

•Set up the regular check in times to have collaborative, two way conversations about the project your working on

•Ask questions like 'How can I help you?' and 'What decisions do you need me to make today?' (instead of asking 'What have you done?')

Send your work from home tips to [email protected]

You can also learn more about Mel here and Phil here.

This show is dedicated to helping you master working from home. If you'd like to pay it forward, share this episode with someone who needs to hear it or leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (they make a bigger difference than you think!)

So how do you find your focus before jumping on your next conference call?

There's a whole new set of possible distractions when we shift from face to face to virtual calls. Avoiding them is easier when you've set your intent and mindset for the call.

Try using a couple of focusing questions to help set yourself up for the call:

•What is my role on the call today?

•What am I hoping to achieve?

•How can I deliver maximum value to the other people on the call?

Also try turning off notifications while you're in meetings. Muchos helpful to reduce the chance of getting distracted from your intent.

Send your work from home tips to [email protected]

You can also learn more about Mel here and Phil here.

This show is dedicated to helping you master working from home. If you'd like to pay it forward, share this episode with someone who needs to hear it or leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (they make a bigger difference than you think!)