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Looking Back While Preparing for the Year to Come

Ready or not, next week is the start of not only a new work week but a new year. 2021 has presented us with a variety of challenges. Globally, we entered a second year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of us have returned to our offices, some are still working remotely, and others are navigating hybrid work scenarios as “return to work/office” efforts have been stalled. For the record, I loathe the phrase “return to work.” Work never stopped, in fact for many of us it increased as we brought work home and has yet to leave our living rooms and dining tables. “Return to office” gets my vote.

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Tips for Staying Sane in the New Ever-Changing World of Remote Work

I recently read a great blog by Upwork about the future of remote collaboration and how organizations are reevaluating not how they think about their teams but how their teams’ needs are met. It’s definitely a struggle that has very abruptly come to the surface for practically every business in the last 6 months.  

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WFH Series: Are you wasting your Microsoft Teams PSTN Minutes?

Today’s work from home series is for those that manage Microsoft Teams.  I have two questions for you:

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New Ways of Doing the Same Things

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WFH Series: Keeping Morale Up on Your (Newly) Remote Team

Anyone tired of work-from-home posts yet?  A lot of them talk about how to stay productive and focused, which is a great perspective for your employees. What about looking at things from a management point of view? My husband works for a really large organization with a hard core “we don’t work remote” policy and yet here we are, creating a second office and trying to hold video conference calls in different rooms at the same time thanks to COVID-19.

What’s different between him and I is that I do this all the time!  Mark and I manage a team that is spread out across the US – literally from Alaska to Long Island, from Canada to Florida and everywhere in between.  I travel a LOT and so I can set up shop just about anywhere and feel comfortable and productive. On the flip side, my husband’s team is within arm’s reach more often than not.  He looked at me across the dinner table last night and asked – How do you keep your team engaged ?

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