This post will give you everything you need to know about how to facilitate a meeting. You'll learn what you need to do before your meeting, during your meeting, and after your meeting to run it effectively. As a bonus, I'll also give you a free meeting agenda template and a free meeting minutes template that you can download and use instantly with your own team. Quick side note: This post is an excerpt from my bestselling book Influencing Virtual Teams, and the meeting minutes template ... Read More
How to Organize Your Home Writing Workplace [Infographic]
The infographic below from OmniPapers provides a cool cheat sheet about how you should organize your writing workspace. Although some of those tips are fairly straightforward, the infographic does give you some reminders and ideas about how you should organize your writing area for your comfort & health. Click on the infographic below for a larger version. Hope you found this helpful. Cheers, Hassan P.S. If you're looking for more hardcore tips to organize your entire ... Read More
A cheap standing desk solution
I don’t want to die. I sit down for 12+ hours a day in my home office. Sitting for that long every day is definitely going to kill me. And the fact that I binge on junk food every now and then makes things worse. (I have a sweet tooth – can’t help it) This standing desk craze isn’t some fad. Just google “sitting kills you” and read all the science-based research on this stuff. There’s study after study after study proving that "sitting is the new smoking." To make things worse, sitting ... Read More
How to Set Up a Telecommuting Policy for your Company the Right Way
A short while ago, I was invited to speak (along with a panel of experts) about how to set up a telecommuting policy for your company. The webinar was organized by AgilQuest - a company that offers software and services solutions for the mobile workforce - and moderated by Doug Lucy, AgilQuest's director of marketing. The webinar was divided into two main parts: Part 1 was about organizations that are just starting out with a new telework or flexible work strategy, and what they should ... Read More
3 Fun and Easy Virtual Team Building Activities
Update: I launched a "Fun Virtual Team-Building Activities" book that includes 18 easy games you can play on Zoom or Webex with your team (no special apps needed & includes downloadable templates). I'm donating some of the profits to COVID-19 efforts. Click here to learn more. Virtual teams can feel very lonely. Remote employees are typically focused on their own silo, and rarely interact informally with their peers and managers like they would in a regular office. Meetings in particular can ... Read More
Webinar Replay: Building Trust in Your Virtual Team
I had a great conversation with a team of experts about building and increasing trust in your virtual team. Here is the webinar replay if you missed it (click play on the YouTube video below to watch it). I highly recommend you watch it, especially if you work as part of a virtual team or manage a remote workforce. Dr. Howard B. Esbin of PlayPrelude, and Lisette Sutherland, of Collaboration Superpowers hosted the webinar on Google Hangouts. The panel also included Alexey ... Read More
A 60-Second Overview of “Influencing Virtual Teams”
If you didn't get the chance to read my "Influencing Virtual Teams" bestselling book, or if you have read it and would like a simple refresher of the 17 tactics presented in it, here's a quick 60-second overview on SlideShare. I hope you find it helpful! Hassan P.S. - Can I ask for a quick favor? If you've read the book, would you take 1 minute to review it on Amazon? I would love to hear your feedback (I read every single review), and it would mean the world to me. Click here to ... Read More
Why Work from Home & The Perfect Home Office [INFOGRAPHIC]
The folks at TinyPrints released this cool infographic about why you should work from home, and how the perfect home office should look like. The infographic highlights some nice tips and statistics, including having a separate room for your home office and outlining what the business savings are for a company that allows its employees to work from home. Click on the infographic below for a larger version. Hope you found this helpful! Cheers, Hassan P.S. - If ... Read More
I beat Tim Ferriss’ “4-Hour Work Week”?
I had to blink a few times when I saw this yesterday: My "Influencing Virtual Teams" book hit the #1 spot in a category right next to Tim Ferriss’ “4 Hour Work Week” AND Jason Fried’s “Remote: Office Not Required.” I'm super-stoked about that. Tim and Jason are not only two of my favorite best-selling authors, but they're also among the most successful entrepreneurs on earth. I was also honored to see that the #1 reviewer of ALL TIME on amazon gave my book the following 5/5 star ... Read More
I’m Writing a Book (and I need your help :-) )
I finally decided to write a book about virtual teams (Update 7/14: The book is now published on Amazon Kindle) I've been playing around with the idea for a while now, especially after publishing my latest course, but I kept delaying it. Why? Because writing a book is hard. I know how much work it takes because I've done it before. For my first book (published back in 2006), I remember spending every single weekend for a FULL YEAR at a local Starbucks in Michigan typing away on my laptop while ... Read More
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