I was having a call a few weeks ago where we were trying to figure out how make our meetings more productive. The immediate answer from someone on the call – “Everyone should have video on, we should turn it on by default, I want to see everyone’s faces”. I shut it down and here’s why… Just because I can see your face, it doesn’t mean you are engaged, it just means you are there.…
Was at a store the other night and saw a few of these drinks in the grocery area. For some reason, Grape Crush has been the treat over the last few years you didn’t know you would ever want. Goes great with pizza and shawarma. How many little things are you missing right now? What did you used to do with your team that you can’t do anymore? What do miss having? What is your…
I’ve never been a fan of optionally inviting people to meetings. It’s always screamed at me – “If you don’t want them there, don’t invite them”. But now having worked with people remotely for a longer period of time, I’m starting to see the value in can have in people’s minds. And I still think it’s wrong because we are associating optional meeting invites as a way to cure FOMO for the remote age (Fear…
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…