Working Remotely: From the Few, to the Many, to the Most (Infographic)
November 1, 2012 by The Anywhere Office · 2 Comments
Interesting infographic depicting the evolution of workshifting and remote work.
It’s common practice that most of us spend some time each day working with remote team members and colleagues, but it’s a reality that is very different to 10-15 years ago. The idea for the infographic was to try to show the movement over the past decade from remote work being a rare event to its current status as a common event. It proved more difficult to find numbers that worked together in a coherent way, but I think that the infographic tells the story it needs to tell.
For more about this graphic and these statistics visit Plantronics Blogcentral | The Smarter Office.
Managing a Virtual Team – Mortensen/O’Leary – Harvard Business Review
October 27, 2012 by The Anywhere Office · Leave a Comment
Mortensen and O’Leary examine some key recurring themes in virtual team management in this Harvard Business Review article.
Teams that are geographically-dispersed, or virtual, have now been used and studied for more than three decades — yet we all still wrestle with how to get them right. Managers frequently ask for best practices for managing their global teams, and recently we’ve noticed some common themes. Here are the three questions that keep coming up again and again, and what the research tells us about how to address them:
Managing a Virtual Team – Mark Mortensen and Michael O’Leary – Harvard Business Review.
Happy Employees vs. Sad Employees: How To Convert [Infographic]
July 23, 2012 by The Anywhere Office · 2 Comments
Food for thought from the folks at Citrix. I still can not understand why so many employers choose to continue to swim against this stream….
Happy Employees vs. Sad Employees: How To Convert [Infographic].
Multigenerational Teams and Multicultural Teams – Human Resources Management | GDS Publishing
June 26, 2012 by The Anywhere Office · Leave a Comment
Multigenerational Teams and Multicultural Teams – Human Resources Management | GDS Publishing.
This article explores challenges facing leadership of distributed, multinational, multi-generational business teams in the 21st Century – particularly about how to appropriately recognize team members. The thoughtful argument concludes with a prescription for redefining both the style and mode of employee recognition.
Redefine Recognition for the 21 st Century
Successful recognition in the 21 st Century is a strategic initiative with actionable objectives and measurable results that weaves appreciation into the fabric of a company’s culture. These programs are based on the company’s values to convey the company’s critical messages and a consistency of purpose worldwide. Strategic recognition is frequent and timely to meet GenX and GenY needs while avoiding the micro-management pitfalls abhorrent to the Silents and Boomers. Well executed recognition is available to all, equally. These four facets of strategic recognition address the unique engagement needs of the multi-generational and multicultural workforce.
It’s clear that the strategies and tools that comprise The Anywhere Office could be instrumental in filling this prescription.
Never hire based solely on geography again (My Mindjet Interview)
March 26, 2012 by Phil Montero · 1 Comment
A few weeks ago I was interviewed by Elissa Vallano for an article she was writing for the Mindjet Blog about remote collaboration and one of the true benefits of working virtually: being able to hire the best talent regardless of location.
In this interview I shared tips for creating an effective distributed team, including my 3 keys for remote collaboration in The Anywhere Office – 1. a shift in perspective 2. finding the right tools and thoughtfully applying them and 3. becoming a conscious communicator. The result of these steps is a highly productive virtual team that functions as smoothly as its in-office counterparts.
The interview was used for an excellent article which you can find here, “Never hire based solely on geography again“.
If you are not familiar with Mindjet, they provide software and services that allow teams to collaborate in the cloud sharing tasks, mind mapping. I recently discovered them and look forward to learning more about their services.
Their blog is full of great articles, so I encourage you to check it out!
Image Credits: Mindjet
