Business Skills - Exercise - Good habits

Hello, This is David Creedon standing in for Ken Taylor. In his latest business skills article, Bob Dignan proposes 10 habits to help you to optimize your way of working remotely, for example, from home, in this first exercise, we'll look at some of those habits. First, I'll tell you the proposed habit. Then I'll ask you a question connected to this habit in the following pause. You answer based on your experience, then you will hear Bob's ideas. You can compare your ideas with hiss. Okay, ready? He is the first habit. Think positively. What advantages could working virtually offer to your organization? Bob suggests the following advantages. Reduced commuting times, a lower environmental impact from road and air travel and the ability to appeal to the preferences of young generation talents. Okay, here's a second habit. Stay connected. What could team leaders do to reduce the feeling of isolation felt by remote workers in their team? Okay, Bob suggests that a team leader should communicate the organization's goals clearly and actively and inspire this with the help of a compelling vision. And they should encourage all team members to touch base regularly with other remote workers to help maintain emotional connections. Good. Now here's 1/3 habit. Set your own agenda. How can you best structure your working day at home? Bob suggests you create a focused home space in which to work without interruptions, disciplining oneself to begin and end work, taking regular breaks and maintaining full focus on work even when there are urgent home duties on other distractions. Okay, here's 1/4 habit. Take decisions on decisions If everyone in the team is working remotely, how might this have a negative effect on your collaborative decision making process? Bob says that it may be more difficult to get everyone involved. Decisions may suddenly need to be taken by individuals or a minority rather than the team as a whole. Those who are suddenly excluded from decision making may be offended on become de motivated. Discuss the matter openly. Right? Here's a final habit. Get technical. Which technical skills do you need to improve in order to work more effectively? Remotely, Bob says that you will need the ability to manage low tech problems. Well, we might call glitch management. This includes, for example, being able to manage an important phone call which constantly disconnect handling a conference call where one of the most important participants is hardly audible or maintaining a video conference, which has a two second time lag in the voice communication. Many people are suddenly having to adapt to the challenges of working remotely, often in isolation from home. Bob Dignan, Its latest article, gives lots of helpful tips on what to think about if this happens to you.