21st Century Work Life

Join Pilar and Lisette for a much longer virtual coffee than usual, recapping some of 2014's work stories and picking some of the trends. Our starting point was a series of articles, which you can find in www.wlpodcast.com. Do share with us your thoughts by commenting on the post with episode 10 or connecting via Twitter: @PilarOrti for myself and @lightling for Lisette. We wish you all the very best for 2015! 00:30 Lisette shares with us what she's been up to and her plans for next year. 04:50 Some buzzwords and concepts that became mainstream this year, including Working Out Loud. 12:25 Work-life fusion. 19:00 Telepresence and using video in training. 30:48 Networked organisations. 36:23 Flexible working goes mainstream. 47:19 Third space workplaces. 56:00 Jacob Morgan's article about whether the workplace can keep up

In this episode, Lisette shares her experience of recruiting four new people onto the virtual team of Happy Melly, of which she is part of. 00.30 Pilar gives a brief intro to the podcast, with some reasons of why this episode might also apply to co-located teams.03.50 Virtual coffee starts. Lisette talks through what she's up to, including her workshop at the NoPants Festival, 9 March 2015. 10.18 Lisette talks through the recruitment process for Happy Melly. 23.37 The onboarding process. For the show notes, visit wlpodcast.com

What is a coach and why is coaching an important skill to have at work? Pilar talks to Phil Hayes, Chairman of Management Futures. 00.31 Pilar talks a bit about coaching and how our new attitude to work has enabled this profession to grow. (Transcript below.) 09.10 Phil explains what coaching is. 14.30 How leadership in organisations has changed in the past years and how coaching can become an integral part of management. 21.50 Social value in organisations and inclusivity. 24.35 The importance of self-awareness and values. For more show notes, visit www.wlpodcast.com

00.30 Pilar talks a bit about why sharing our values might help us work better together. 07.46 What is 'ethical blindness'?13.45 Virtual coffee with Lisette Sutherland14.28 Lisette reports back on her experiment on Feedback.18.45 What do we mean by "values"? Why is this important for virtual teams?31.50 Cognitive dissonance.

How can digital skills be employed in the workplace? Sinead MacManus talks about the work that Fluency is doing in London and globally to help young people improve their digital skills.00.30 Pilar talks a bit about Sinead' s work (transcript below)08.00 Sinead talks about her work with Fluency and the blended learning approach17.23 Sinead explains what .io stands for20.35 Are schools (in the UK) addressing this shortage of digital skills in young people? For the show notes visit www.wlpodcast.com

Today’s show includes virtual coffee with the lovely Lisette Sutherland and during our chat we talk about feedback, about giving and receiving feedback and more importantly, about ensuring that feedback is a conversation that all team members have, not just a top down stream of information. 01:09 Pilar introduces the podcast and the feedback loop.03:40 How technology is helping us to give feedback and what it's addressing.11:05 A story from Paul Matthew's Capability at Work illustrating the need for feedback across the organisation.16: 45 Virtual Coffee with Lisette. Why the annual appraisal is not the best place for feedback, especially in virtual teams. 22.25 Written feedback (and some non-written specific points!).28.25 Team retrospectives.31.30 360 degree team feedback. For longer show notes, visit http://www.virtualteamleadership.co.uk/giving-feedback/

Jurgen Appelo is the author of Management 3.0 Workout. I talk to him about motivation in organisations and the story behind the organisation Happy Melly. Jurgen shares with us a couple of the tools he describes in his book, like the Delegation Boards and the KUDO cards. His interview starts around 8:20 mins and before that, I share some thoughts on motivation, which you can also read on the episode4 notes on www.wlpodcast.com

Today the focus is on teams – more specifically on communication in teams. My coffee with Lisette focuses on virtual teams and the things you can do to tune in to each other and keep the conversation going. 00:30 Introduction and the opportunity to change the way we work.06:00 Sandy Pentland and team's research into High Performing Teams 16:12 Virtual Coffee with Lisette - Tune-in your virtual team Enjoy! For extensive show notes visit www.wlpodcast.comPilar Orti blogs at www.virtualteamleadership.co.uk

In this second episode of the 21st Work Life podcast, I visit CreateSpaceLondon, a place for artists and makers in the West of the UK capital. So, today’s episode consists of Rory Gallagher (founder)’s tour and I also I stopped via Atila’s studio and asked him to explain how he made his first guitar. Finally, I chat to Kevin  about 3d printing and what the possibilities are and how it might impact the consumers. He also talks us through the 3d printing process in a small consumer 3D printer and also the different machines around. 00:30 Introduction to CreateSpaceLondon and hackspaces.11:20 Tour around the space and a chat with Rory, founder.23:20 I talk to Atila about making guitars31:20 Chat with Kevin Koekkoek, 3d modeller and designer. We talk about 3d printing. For extensive show notes and photos, visit www.wlpodcast.comPilar Orti blogs at www.virtualteamleadership.co.uk

Welcome to the first episode of the 21st Century Work Life podcast, a show created to look at how the world of work,and our attitudes to work are changing. In this first episode, I reflect on how much how we talk about work has changed - we are now ok with placing the words "happiness" and "work" in the same sentence! I also share with you Mark Trezona's thoughts and some tips on how we can move towards Happiness at Work. (Mark has made this subject his mission and he now delivers a Happiness at Work newsletter weekly.) For the second part of the episode I have virtual coffee with Lisette Sutherland. I met Lisette on the Internet, when she interviewed me for her site (and now podcast!) Collaboration Superpowers. Lisette will be making an appearance in this podcast every other week and in today's episode she shares her tips on how to create the best Work Holiday. Yes, you heard right. 00:30 Introduction02:50 Changes in attitude to work - talking about happiness at work. What does happiness at work mean?11.15 I read Mark Trezona's view on happiness at work and Martin Seligman's PERMA principles.20:40 Virtual coffee with Lisette: Work Holidays Pilar Orti blogs at virtualteamleadership.co.uk