remote work

Pivoting For Remote Work Success

Remote work has been a hot topic since the beginning of the pandemic. Many businesses transitioned to remote work to comply with social distancing measures. However, as the world continues to recover, remote work remains a trend as organizations contemplate how to continue to address this transformative movement. In this blog, we discuss the shifts that need to take place to ensure remote work success, including how to mentor and sponsor in a remote environment, build connections, and increase p

Nurturing a Company Culture With a Fully Remote Team

Over the past seven years, I’ve remotely managed a team of 12. I’ve also consulted with hundreds of business owners, helping them to build their own remote teams. As you can imagine, I’ve picked up quite a few tips and best practices from my work.

It’s Not Where You Work, It’s How You Work: Team Dynamics in a Hybrid Environment

Since the widespread shift to working from home, some teams are struggling to manage hybrid environments while others are thriving more than ever. What makes the difference for the 40% that have increased productivity in this new landscape?

Work From Home Burnout: What It Means and How to Stop It

It has been six months since most companies officially sent employees home for what many thought would be a few weeks and has now become months, stretching on for the foreseeable future. The flexibility to work from home has long been part of the trend toward flexible work arrangements aimed at attracting and retaining talent in an ever more competitive market. However, half a year working from home has had the opposite effect on work-life balance for many and instead of feeling less stressed, p

The Three Most Important Steps You Can Take to Make Any Job Your Dream Job

Do you experience the "Sunday night scaries," dreading the thought of another Monday morning? Or count down the hours until you can log off? Or wonder if you will ever find the work-life balance you want and need in this new world of online work? Overwhelmed, burned-out, and tired of Zooming all day, every day, it's easy to throw in the towel and resign yourself that work sucks and that you're stuck in this job forever. There is another option. You can make your current job work for you. Here ar

What to Do When You Are Missing Your Work BFFs While Working From Home

Why is work the number one place where adults make most of their friends? Because consistency is one of the three relationship requirements, and there's nowhere we're more consistent in our lives than where we're paid to show up regularly. Work is to adults as school is to kids: the best place to interact frequently with the same people. But what happens to all those work friendships—whose consistency relied upon sharing a breakroom, sitting beside each other, chatting in the hallway, or connect

Communicating with Employees Will Be Key for Successful Remote Work Post-COVID

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies were resistant to implementing remote work for a variety of reasons such as concerns about technology and infrastructure, a lack of trust that employees would get their jobs done, the longstanding (and understandable) bias in favor of face-to-face interactions, or some combination of these factors. However, not only has the COVID-19 pandemic forced many companies to switch to remote work despite their reservations, it's clear at this point that it's g

Here's The Secret To Efficiently Managing Your Remote Team

Under any circumstances, managing a remote team requires an over-emphasis on communication, a deep understanding of flexibility, and a variety of ways to maintain touch points with your teammates. Now, with so much uncertainty, fear, and sickness, we need to have even more compassion so that people have time to heal, adjust, and find their anchor within this "new normal."

How I Built My Business While Traveling The World As A Digital Nomad

I went from struggling to take vacation time as a first-time PR worker to working wherever and however I wanted.

How I’ve Created A "New Normal" During The Coronavirus For My Company, My Son, And Me

The coronavirus outbreak has required everyone to abruptly adjust their entire lives with little to no warning or time for preparation. Schools across the country closed in a matter of days, many businesses were suddenly forced to work from home until further notice, and individuals everywhere were left wondering how to get the basic daily necessities. As the founder and CEO of a company as well as the mother to a young boy, creating and sticking to this new normal has been quite an adjustment a

Please Don't Call Me During "My Commute"

I find myself closing my eyes and imagining... The sweet scent of a Starbucks grande chai latte. The familiar aroma of my faded car air freshener. The smell of a half-eaten banana tossed onto the passenger seat… Yes, I miss my commute.

Please Don't Put Yourself On Mute

During a recent meeting on Microsoft Teams, I couldn't seem to get a single word out.

How Remote Work Is Becoming The New Corner Office

Amusing Truths About Working From Home, As Told By The Self-Employed