With the absence of video in a call, you’d think it’d be an easy task to dole out some work. Truth be told though, if you wait a week to see what happens you’ll come to realize that what you asked for is not what you are getting. Even worst, most likely not when you were expecting to get it. Setting expectations in person is a simple endeavour, when tasks are assigned we observe the…
It can be very tough right now to have the hard conversations with your team – when everyone is remote, when people are going through their own struggles, when each day is drastically more different than the last. But the Hard Decisions aren’t going anywhere. You are still going to have to handle them in a remote environment. Whether it’s over the phone or in video, you are going to have make the hard decisions…
For our final interview of Season 1 of Remotely Prepared, we were fortunate to sit down with Stacy Cassio – Founder & CEO of the Pink Mentor Network. It was a great interview and a perfect note to end the season on as Stacy talks about her experiences in growing her mentorship company on a remote scale. There is a ton of great information in it, so if you haven’t had a chance to listen…
We used to put a lot of effort into what someone would see at their desk when they arrived on their first day. Some getting started reading, some papers to sign, a great workstation with new equipment, perhaps a lunch out on the first day to get to know you better and of course, the flybys by the leadership team throughout the day welcoming you to the company. How much of this is still happening?…
I always cringe a bit inside when I hear this statement. It’s generally applied as an effect to a cause that just happened. A release is late because an interface-breaking library was implemented that pushed things back. Requirements are taking longer to deliver then expected. QA is finding more bugs than they originally planned for. People are stretched too thin because they are doing work across multiple releases and branches at the same time. I…