Managing Remotely
Writing and conversation
Managing Remotely is where I write about distributed teams, project management and managing yourself. Future of Team is the podcast I co-hosted with James Giroux on performance, feedback, engagement and inclusive leadership.
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I’m co-hosting the Future of Team Podcast
One of my favourite ‘I slid into their DMs’ stories comes from Rob McElhenny and Ryan Reynolds recounting the beginning days of a friendship that has matured into a(n ad)venture with the North Welsh soccer team, Wrexham AFC. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, go watch Welcome to Wrexham. It’s a wonderful…
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10 things I wish I knew on entering the workforce
Around a food laden table recently, a group of women at various stages in our careers had the chance to share our journeys with our friend, a new university graduate embarking on making the first steps in her career. We found our conversation turning to the challenge of figuring out ‘where do you put your…
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Seasonal Change
Here in the south east of Australia we’re in the early weeks of spring. It really crept up on me this year. I was so absorbed in the routine of my everyday wintery life that for a minute I might have thought it was going to be like that forever. I would have no complaints…
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Doing, or Being – a meditation on taking rest.
“To be is to do”—Socrates. “To do is to be”—Jean-Paul Sartre. “Do be do be do”—Frank Sinatra. As I write today, I am looking at and listening to the waters of the Gippsland Lakes, whipped up just a little into waves that don’t so much crash on to the shore as they do crinkle. My…
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Simone – WordPress 5.6
The tagline ‘Code is Poetry’ is synonymous with WordPress. On this occasion, the code we delivered in Nina’s name does for our users what her music and poetry does for her audience, it gives people a way to give voice to that which has sunk into their own hearts and souls.
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Using Bullet Journal techniques for my To Do list
In a team meeting, a member recently asked whether anyone uses Kanban to track personal to dos. This prompted me to write up a post because even outside of work I’ve been promising a few people that I’d document how I use the bullet journaling technique to keep track of my To Do list. I’d…
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Working a World Apart – What Changes to meet the Challenges?
In our two previous discussions we have talked about the challenges of cross cultural remote work and followed that with the need for closing the gap between diverse distributed teams. In this concluding chapter we talk about what steps we need to take to meet those challenges.
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Working a World Apart – Reducing the Distance
Cross Cultural Working in a Distributed Workplace An exploration into some of the ways we can reduce the distance between cross cultural remote and distribute teams. Part 2 of 3.
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Working a World Apart – The Challenges
Cross Cultural Working in a Distributed Workplace The idea for this post came from the company I work in, Human Made, a distributed company of nearly 70 people, representing around 24 nationalities, across 16 timezones. We operate in English, but for many of us, English is not the first language.