I love coffee. And I happen to drink a lot of it while working next to my laptop (which isn't too smart, I know). So I've been looking for a good spill proof coffee cup for a while now. I’ve had a few close encounters over the last few years that almost completely ruined my PC. In fact, I had to throw out my external keyboard once because it drowned in my cafe latte. So the other day, when I came across an awesome spill proof coffee cup, I had to buy it. It’s called the Mighty Mug ... Read More
Why the Future of Work is Virtual [Video]
I believe the future of work is virtual. I work from home, and this is the story of how I got my current job at Cisco Systems. The talk is about "The Future of Work," which I gave at the NewCon conference in South Africa to explain the trend of both working and learning from home. I couldn't present at the conference live due to the timezone difference between Boston & South Africa (I was scheduled to talk at 2:30am my time - which would have been a disaster!), so I pre-recorded the ... Read More
10 Inciting Questions That Bring Remote Teams Together
This is a guest post by David Hassell, the founder and CEO of 15Five It’s no secret that remote work arrangements have become more prevalent in the last decade. In fact, remote work has increased by 50% over the last five years. With this rise, companies are facing new communication challenges, along with keeping relationships strong, and aligning objectives. In a survey 15Five conducted this year, we found that the top reasons managers are allowing remote work include ‘better ... Read More
15 Awesome Team Building Quotes that Inspire Your Team
Whether you're a manager at a Fortune 100 company or an entrepreneur, you need a great team to succeed. This is a given fact, but most people take it for granted. So it's important to keep reminding your team members of the importance of collaborative teamwork. To help you out, I put together a list of team building quotes that help inspire your team to keep them motivated. I divided the team building quotes into two categories. The first is a list of 6 quotes that I personally found ... Read More
Quick Summary of “Don’t Reply All” on SlideShare
The following 20-slide SlideShare presentation is a quick summary of my latest book "Don't Reply All." If you already bought a copy, then you can download the presentation as a PowerPoint file (there's a link inside the book that you can click on to download it). The PowerPoint file is fully modifiable and you can use it with your own team to share some of the best practices during a project kickoff. A few entrepreneurs and managers have sent me shout-outs that this was quite valuable ... Read More
How to Facilitate a Meeting [Includes FREE Meeting Agenda Template and Meeting Minutes Template]
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
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
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