21st Century Work Life

The Virtual not Distant episodes will be released daily for a week. Today's episode looks at appreciation in virtual teams. For more information on the course for managers and leaders of virtual teams, check out www.virtualnotdistant.net For any feedback on these episodes, use the contact form on that website. I hope you enjoy the series! Pilar

The Virtual not Distant episodes will be released daily for a week. Today's episode looks at learning in virtual teams. For more information on the course for managers and leaders of virtual teams, check out www.virtualnotdistant.net For any feedback on these episodes, use the contact form on that website. I hope you enjoy the series! Pilar

The Virtual not Distant episodes will be released daily for a week. Today's episode looks at team identity and culture. For more information on the course for managers and leaders of virtual teams, check out www.virtualnotdistant.net For any feedback on these episodes, use the contact form on that website. I hope you enjoy the series! Pilar

The Virtual not Distant episodes will be released daily for a week. Today's episode looks at team identity and culture. For more information on the course for managers and leaders of virtual teams, check out www.virtualnotdistant.net For any feedback on these episodes, use the contact form on that website. I hope you enjoy the series! Pilar

The Virtual not Distant episodes will be released daily for a week. Today's episode looks at team identity and culture. For more information on the course for managers and leaders of virtual teams, check out www.virtualnotdistant.net For any feedback on these episodes, use the contact form on that website. I hope you enjoy the series! Pilar

The Virtual not Distant episodes will be released daily for a week. For more information on the course for managers and leaders of virtual teams, check out www.virtualnotdistant.net For any feedback on these episodes, use the contact form on that website. I hope you enjoy the series! Pilar

visit www.virtualnotdistant.com Pilar talks to Laura Troyani, from TinyPulse, a company that helps to keep the conversation going within organisations to address employee engagement. "Peers are the #1 motivator for going the extra mile at work." 00:30 Pilar thanks @BernieJMitchell , @DJ_Motorteufel, @gdbeaulieu @tonyjreeves 06: 40  Laura shares the story behind TinyPulse. Asking and pulsing your team every week, to see how happy/frustrated your team is. 12:55 People analytics and data. 14:06 How TinyPulse works in practice. 17:30 Anonymity in employee feedback. How it helps the employee and the manager. 21:10 The different organisations using TinyPulse. 27:10 Laura's role as Director of Marketing. Using TinyPulse in other areas apart from engagement. 30:30 The #1 reason for people going the extra mile at work. www.tinypulse.com/2014-employee-engagement-organizational-culture-report If you're interested in engagement in teams, especially in virtual teams, check out the episode including a Virtual Coffee with Lisette on Engagement at Work. Virtual teams: Higher levels of engagement in people working out of the office for 20% of the time. 39:15 Peer-peer recognition. Appreciation at work. How can organisations foster a culture of honest, open communication. Check out the TinyPulse blog for a range of articles on employee engagement and company culture. Laura Troyani twitter handle: twitter.com/lauratroyani Looking for a course on leading and managing virtual teams? visit www.virtualnotdistant.net

00:30 Pilar is experimenting with a new set up with the microphone and being more spontaneous (Post-podcast: It worked very well!). 10:30 Lisette shares her learning shot experience. 13: 50 Feedback on Twitter. Is it useful? (Pilar and Lisette got a tweet that brought up lots of points and questions.) Pilar learned loads from it. How a group in FB dealt with conflict. Reflections on team identity, check out our previous episode. 24:50 Learning is not just about gathering information, need to get feedback regularly. Kolb's cycle. Learning through discussing and by being accountable to others. We introduce the Jurgen alert. (Listen for the special offer.) 33:15 How do we prioritise learning and share information? Individual vs Team learning. Creating a bank of knowledge and then doing something with that information. 39:20 Conquering fear.   "Learning is uncomfortable." 41.50 Is "learning" work? The role of personality in wanting to learn. Learning together helps to build our team - we share common points of reference and language. 48:25 Can different ways of structuring and organisation help learning? Holacracy. www.thefutureorganization.com/holacracy-what-how-and-why/ Learning in the team: retrospectives. 52:35 Lisette has a book (Jurgen Appelo's Workout) to give away! #jalert 55:30 Lisette mentions the Celebration Grid http://noop.nl/2015/06/success-and-failure.html and Are we creating the right conditions for learning? Learning from failure and mistakes. Openly. 01:02:30  Wrapping up and some specifics for those people ready to be conscious of learning together. Creating learning guilds. Lisette mentions the book Borrowing Brilliance.   "Learning is about adapting to change and being excellent in my own way."

Pilar speaks to Adam Isle, who shares how he adapted to working from home after many years of working in an office. 00:30 Is it more difficult to make the transition from office-based to home-based work than to start off in a virtual team? (And Pilar talks a bit about Virtual, not Distant...) 07:00 Adam shares his role at the CIPD, working from home, liaising with clients and meeting at head office. "When you're staring at four walls, you don't get much feedback." 12:25 How you have to consciously make the effort to keep informal communication going and what Adam and his colleagues did to address this. You need to consciously make the effort to stay in touch. 19:95 Changing your process and managing your time. Freedom and structure. Visibility. 22:55 Face to face adds depth to client relationships. The difficulty of knowing when to be formal or informal if you've never met someone face to face. Cues we take from in person interactions. Making virtual introductions more personal, before meeting them in person. 27:15 Adam and Change. 32:25 Career aspirations and working from home... Getting too comfortable. 37:35 Adam refers to episode 38 when he mentions how Social Media changed recruitment. Connect with Adam on LinkedIn (he's not on Twitter... yet!).

Visit www.virtualnotdistant.com In this episode, Pilar shares what she has observed a wonderful director she's working with at the moment as he directs an animation series. The team only comes together once every two months, for a couple of days. Pilar also shares why she's decided to stick with helping virtual teams through Virtual, not Distant. Get in touch through askingpilar@gmail.com