21st Century Work Life

In today's episode, Pilar talks to Anish Hindocha, who, after working as a change consultant for over 20 years, now helps organisations improve their culture. They talk about what organisational culture is, whether it has changed in organisations during the pandemic - and how - and the opportunities to make the world of work a better place. You can connect with Anish here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anishhindocha/ And you can find more detailed show notes over at https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/podcasts/culture-conversation

Brought to you by Virtual Not Distant in London (https://virtualnotdistant.com) Maya has recently published "Finding Your Edge: Establishing And Maintaining Boundaries When You Work From Home", reflecting on issues on many minds right now as we all strive for balance between work and the rest of our lives. Pilar and Maya discuss integrators vs segmenters, using daylight and other sensory input as boundaries, and keeping tasks and roles in place when we work from home. 23.00 What's Going On Interesting articles: I'm socially anxious, and working from home has been life-changing. Spain to launch trial of four-day working week. and 38:20 Tech updates: Being in a BBC virtual studio audience recording, How to use Slack emoji to simplify work (and cut out noise), Taming the hybrid work chimera: Tips from Slack, WordPress, & Salesforce chiefs; Why Microsoft wants Discord 59.45 Our community: Take a look at the conversations and our question of the month, over on our LinkedIn page https://www.linkedin.com/company/virtualnotdistant

Brought to you by Virtual Not Distant in London, today's episode explores mindset issues for new remote managers, and some changes which people new to this role may need to explore. (https://virtualnotdistant.com) The episode is structured around Pilar's article Key mindset changes for the new remote manager and covers the need to: (4.09) 1. Adopt a coaching mindset (8.09) 2. Embrace delegation and avoid interference (10.04) 3. Make friends with your technology (Including an interview with agile coach Mark Kilby (at 18.24), about how data visualisation can help explore issues of disengagement in remote teams) (44.13) 4: Get Intentional (47.14) Finally, 5: Don't make yourself indispensable

Brought to you by Virtual Not Distant in London, where we help teams work together better online, https://virtualnotdistant.com In today's episode Pilar and Maya take their regular look at what's going on in the remote work and collaboration space (which goes beyond work to include education and other spheres now using the same technology), and then explore the theme of social connection in remote teams. 04.00 What's Going On - a focus on education Pilar took part in a panel at PA2021 for Project Access International with Bernie Mitchell (Episode 158), and Niklas Huppmann from Human Aid and Covid Africa. It's so interesting how the tech is changing the way we learn, hopefully leading to greater opportunity for everyone. Despite technical challenges ( likeSingle Sign-on for Programmable Video), the panel predicted that a hybrid approach blending online and face-to-face is what to expect in future, with interesting implications for building professional networks. Pilar has also been working with BeNext on virtual leadership, and exploring the strengths of cohort based learning - a great strength of the online space, as People Matters agrees: Article: Ten reasons why cohort-based programs are the future of skilling — People Matters. 21.57 Socialisation in the online space People talk about missing social interaction when forced to work from home, and often the solution seems to be to arrange specific out-of-work opportunities for this. But this is to imply that social interaction at work only takes place in the pub afterwards! Which isn't how it works in the colocated workspace - so why should it be online? Recent episodes with Chris Coladonato (262) and Goncalo Silva (264) have some great ideas of how to do this well, and there's also episode 170 with Jochen Lillich on the DIRECTT framework (Decision, Insight, Result, Emotion, Contact, Troubles, Thanks) for working out loud - all ways to weave engagement and sociability throughout your day to day interactions. How are you making space for sharing and connecting in your organisation? Don't forget to let us know, and maybe our in-house podcasting service could help, if you want a new way to relate to one another in your online team. 43.51 Our community With everything segueing beautifully today, this takes us into our LinkedIn question of the month, Now that you're not working in an office together, how are you capturing the learning in your team that happens away from each other? generating fantastic and insightful responses from friends like Bart Van Roey (episode 261) - we'd love to know what you think too.

In this episode, Pilar talks to guest Francisco Corzo about the future of the workplace in Guatemala and the concept of Working Near Home. You can find the full show notes over at https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/podcasts/near-home-in-guatemala Links to articles we refer to: Pilar and Francisco talk about the recent Forbes article: From Work from Home to Work Near Home, the beginning of a new office trend. Pilar's article on LinkedIn from a few years ago called Sharing Office Spaces across Organisations

Brought to you by Virtual Not Distant in London, where we help those working apart rom each other feel closer together: https://virtualnotdistant.com 5:21 Today, Pilar talks to Jennifer Riggins about the upcoming Aginext conference, (and why they're using the Spatial Chat app for their networking sessions), and then: 19.21 We share a panel recorded at Agile Tour London, October 2020, featuring: Beth Maguire from Hubspot Gonçalo Silva, CTO at Doist Marcus Wermuth, engineering manager at Buffer, Morgan Legge head of sales and success at Convert.com Discussing personal learning styles, embedding learning in organisational culture, practices for sharing and reflecting on learning - and much much more. Enjoy!

Brought to you by Virtual Not Distant (https://virtualnotdistant.com) in London, in today's "what's going on?" series Pilar Orti and Maya Middlemiss discuss: 02:08 The state of remote work right now Pandemic working is not remote working But this wasn't what I meant, when I said working from home was great! Older employees are adapting to remote work better than younger workers 17.10 Location independent lifestyle Hawaii's Remote Work Program Comes With Free Flights Repeople (Nomad City) 23.38 New tech for remote 'Moodbeam': A wristband that tells your boss if you are unhappy. The Future Of Trello Is On The Horizon: Take a Sneak Peek and Going Beyond The Board: A Whole New Trello Is Here. Healthy Happy Homeworking mailing list: Don't be a Zoom Zombie!) The launch of Microsoft Viva - the 'employee experience platform'. 45.37 Virtual not Distant news A LinkedIn discussion which became a blog post, Making the Most of Virtual Facilitation: Using the Asynchronous Space Maya's community for homeworkers: Healthy Happy Homeworking Facebook group, Richard MacKinnon's WorkLifePsych.club These are not Virtual Not Distant communities, but we're always listening to you too.

Hello and welcome to episode 262 of the 21st Century Work Life podcast, brought to you by Virtual Not Distant in London. Before we dive in the interview a quick reminder about our Podcasting for Connection service - podcasting is a great asynchronous tool that can help maintain a sense of belonging. 04.29 Chris Coladonato Chris Coladonato works in learning and development at a large insurance enterprise, and is a great advocate for remote work. She is very active on social media and we've long enjoyed the insightful content she shares and discusses, from virtual commutes to networking and connection. 17.00 Teamwork and staying connected 35.45 External social media Connect with Chris on LinkedIn, Twitter and her blog. Speaking of LinkedIn, we had a great conversation over on our own page, about getting started with working remotely… And if you love podcasting as much as we do, you'll want to follow Adventures in Podcasting, for news about a new book from Pilar coming soon.

A special bonus episode, of this podcast brought to you by Virtual Not Distant in London (http://virtualnotdistant.com), Today we talk to Bart Van Roey and Viviane Kock about their new book "Beyond New Ways of Working" - 'dialogue book' in Dutch, which is extending the conversation about remote work and the future of work in more ways than one. Contact Viviane via her own website at Formation et consultance en télétravail - NestYourDesk and Bart at ihop : for people and business,

Welcome to our first recording of 2021, brought to you by Virtual Not Distant in London. https://virtualnotdistant.com 2.39 We share and discuss a great message from a LinkedIn connection in Guatemala, Francisco Corzo. 10.09 Tech round-up: apps offline, Hey for work, Deaf people and online meetings, and MSTeams updates. 20.24 Communications and collaboration in 2021 36.10 Community news, including Minds at Work and our own Podcasting for connection service. Do keep in touch and let us know 'what's going on' in your remote work world.