WFH & Managing Remotely – all HBR expertise put together
[Original published February 2020; Updated December 2022]
How to effectively work from home and lead virtual teams and meetings better. Do it yourself through this post for free; or book a session here.
Working from Home & Managing Remotely – all HBR expertise put together. Sounds great, and it is! Just make sure you know your personal habits, the good ones and the bad ones! Also know your specific situation, like the working environment in your house.
Harvard Business made some great, short videos which are helpful to get the basics right. They also brought together several articles from a number of professors who digged in to this subject. Hope you find this helpful – appreciate if you let me know at the bottom.
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Video’s
Video Summary
- Structure your day and set boundaries around your time and space, so when your working – you’re working … and when you’re not – you’re not…
- create when possible a dedicated workspace
- eliminate / avoid distractions like TV, music, kitchen, …. shut the door…
- Make a schedule and stick to it
- Recreate your office patterns such as timing for coffee, computer work, chats, etc.
- Quit at quiting time
- Agree with others in the house what the daily schedule is, ask them to respect your working time and needs
- Virtual meetings are different from physical meetings
- Know the tech you’re using, features are available for good reasons
- Stick to agreed structures and norms for virtual meetings
- Take extra time to be extra clear, clarity is far more important now
- Don’t offload your “being very busy” with an overload of emails to your team members, if you normally would walk into someones office, why not now have a virtual chat
- Minimize your digital volume, don’t text that you’ve sent an email…. don’t use corporate chats as well, keep messages on a single channel
- Respect personality aspects if you know them, e.g. introverts might prefer written text
- Find ways to celebrate and socialize remotely, this improves collaboration
More articles on HBR.com
There is much more to read since these video’s were produced (2020), so check out this HBR page.
Topics on this page include:
- What Great Remote Managers Do Differently
- Revitalizing Culture in the World of Hybrid Work
- How to Do Hybrid Right
- 15 Questions About Remote Work, Answered
- 5 Challenges of Hybrid Work — and How to Overcome Them
- A Guide to Managing Your (Newly) Remote Workers
- Our Work-from-Anywhere Future
- Research: Cameras On or Off?
- 5 Practices to Make Your Hybrid Workplace Inclusive
- Forget Flexibility. Your Employees Want Autonomy.
- What Leadership Development Should Look Like in the Hybrid Era
- What to Do If Your Team Doesn’t Want to Go Back to the Office
- Remote Work Has Opened the Door to a New Approach to Hiring
- WFH Doesn’t Have to Dilute Your Corporate Culture
- Microsoft Analyzed Data on Its Newly Remote Workforce
- How Remote Workers Make Work Friends
- Using Emojis to Connect with Your Team
- Does Your Company Have a Long-Term Plan for Remote Work?
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