Remote Working & Meetings: A Compilation of Tips and Advice
Remote Working & Meetings: A Compilation of Tips and Advice
Remote Working & Meetings: A Compilation of Tips and Advice
& Meetings
A compilation of tips and advice
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Working from home
Go to “work” Set up a workplace Regular work hours Stop working!
Set the alarm. Create a nice and tidy area Set specific, regular, work When your working day is
Eat breakfast. where you can focus on hours. And communicate over - let work be.
Watch the morning news. work. those to your team.
Brush your teeth. Chill.
Get dressed. Don’t work where you Take a proper lunch break,
normally relax (such in the don’t eat in front of the Do something else.
Do a fake commute - take a sofa or in your bed). laptop.
walk around the block
Summarize your plans for your Get off social media. Or at least Get yourself a timer. Write a list Make sure to take breaks for
day in your team’s slack turn off notifications from of things you want to do today, lunch, coffee etc. as you would
channel. This will help you sort Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, sort them by importance. normally do when you are at the
out your own prioritizes and to etc. office.
increase your own focus on the Set the timer on 25 minutes
most important things. Scroll your feeds during your (one Pomodoro). When it rings, When you’re having a break -
breaks, or save them to your celebrate with a 5 minute break. stand up. Move. Walk away from
Update your team throughout fake commute home :-) Before resetting the timer, your laptop.
the day as you finish your tasks. check your list. You might want
to change priorities. If you run Pomodoros, take a
longer break after top 3-4
Pomodoros.
Today,
my plans
are to...
Good conversations in bigger For long meetings, pausing and Focusing drains energy. Don’t Try using hand-signals or cards
group is hard, even more so summarizing and review what’s forget to take breaks for long for participants to participate
when having them through been discussed and agreed meetings. without speaking.
video. upon so far. This can be valuable
and help everyone be on the
Increase energy, engagement same page.
and depth of conversations by
allowing for timeboxed
breakout-sessions. Distribute air time
For problem solving, ideation, When it’s not possible to meet Slack and email is great for: Online collaboration tools such
debating and creative face-to-face we resort to video - Coordination as Jira, Confluence, Google
discussions, meeting face to conferences. - Announcing news Docs, Jamboard, etc are perfect
face beets everything else. - Sharing information for:
With proper shared workspace - Asking questions - Planning
Conversations flow easily, tools, more discipline (and a - Tracking progress
everyone can gather in from of little bit more patience) video - Document decisions
the whiteboard and it’s easy to can be as great for problem - Policies and Guidelines
read the expressions of others. solving and discussions. - Knowledge base
Have a video link open to a Schedule social activities over Don’t forget to have those silly Share photos of your home,
friend or to your team, just for video. For example, have a video random social conversations your cat, your coffee mug, your
the sake of company. It also fika/coffee break together about nothing and everything. odd pair of socks, etc. in your
makes it easy to reach out to everyday at 3 pm. team’s slack channel.
each other if you have questions Create dedicated “frivolous”
or want to bounce ideas. slack channels for social Don’t forget to have some fun :-)
mucking about.