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WLP148 – Towards Lucid Meetings

Pilar talks to Elise Keith, co-founder of Lucid Meetings. We talk about why “training how to run meetings” often fails and why you should take a holistic approach when trying to improve meetings in your organisation.  

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WLP147 - Avoiding Artificial Harmony

Working out loud takes effort and energy – and it becomes really hard to do when we are struggling with the work or when we are afraid of breaking the “good vibe” of the team or of not being a “positive team member”. 


 

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WLP146 - Distributed Holacracy

Morgan Legge from Convert.com shares the company’s journey adopting a “holacratic approach”.
 

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WLP145 - Asking for Feedback and Learning through Conversations

There are many ways of learning from others in our remote team: through asking for feedback and running activities where we can learn from each other. 
 

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WLP144 - Designing a Development Programme for Managers of Remote Teams

Is asking “which tool when” the right question to be asking? And how is a training programme for remote team managers different to that for office-based managers?
 

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WLP143 - Building a Team of Premium Virtual Assistants

We meet Sandra Lewis, founder and CEO of Worldwide101, a company made up of premium virtual assistants. 

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WLP142 - Why Are We Rushing to be Productive?

Why does everyone want to be “busy” all the time and why are so many of us rushing around? Join Pilar and Lisette for today’s virtual coffee.  

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Pilar OrtiOctober 12, 2017Comment
WLP141 - Psychological Flexibility

In today’s episode, Richard A. MacKinnon explains the concept of psychological flexibility and how we can change our behaviour to be values-led rather than emotion-led

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WLP140 - Sensors in the office, LinkedIn Data and more!

In this episode, Pilar and Lisette discuss five articles that have caught their eye in the last few months. 

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Pilar OrtiSeptember 28, 2017Comment
Blog Post Audio: How to Stop Worrying About Whether People Are Getting the Work Done at Home

Just for this week, here's the audio version of one of our blog posts. Next week we'll be back with our regular schedule. 

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WLP139 - Don't Ditch Those Update Meetings... Yet

In this episode, Pilar explains the benefits of having regular update meetings with your remote team. 

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WLP138 - Cultural Differences in Global Teams

In this episode Pilar talks to Nancy Settle-Murphy about the challenges of working with people based in other countries.

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WLP137 - Under New Management

In this episode, Pilar talks to David Burkus, author of “Under New Management”, an overview of those organisations experimenting with new ways of leading teams and managing people. 

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Management Café #10 Leading Remote Teams

In this episode, we cover the change in mindset necessary to lead remote teams, working out loud, how to choose a tool, making decisions and planning for spontaneous conversations. (I know!)
 

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WLP136 - Engineering Happiness at Automattic

Have we got a treat for you today. In this episode, both Lisette and Pilar talk to T. Briseno, Happiness Engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com.  
 

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Pilar OrtiAugust 24, 2017Comment
Management Café #9 Psychological Safety

Building psychological safety requires us to be very aware of our own behaviour, as we create a place where team members feel able to bring up problems and admit mistakes.

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Pilar OrtiAugust 21, 2017Comment
WLP135 - Going "Remote" in Your Organisation

In this episode, Pilar talks about the importance of thinking holistically about introducing “remote” into an organisation: how will it change a company’s culture? How will it challenge people’s identities?

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WLP134 - The 21st Century Actor

In this episode, Pilar talks to Syrus Lowe about his work in the theatre, in role-play companies and presenting. 

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Pilar OrtiAugust 10, 2017 Comments
WLP133 - Remote Team Management Mindset

In this episode, Pilar and Lisette talk about the kind of mindset remote team managers can embrace that will make their lives easier.  

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WLP132 Being a Freelance Copywriter

In this episode, Pilar talks to Olivia Jones, a freelance copywriter based in London about being freelance and dealing remotely with clients.

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