I’M THUMBING THROUGH pages of notes and hours of audio recordings that I compiled during the Grow Remote Ireland 2023 Summit. It’s refreshing and invigorating.
I’M THUMBING THROUGH pages of notes and hours of audio recordings that I compiled during the Grow Remote Ireland 2023 Summit. It’s refreshing and invigorating.
I’m posting this short blog to thank Tracy Keogh, John Riordan, and a score of volunteers to making the Summit a top class event.
It will take me several days to unpack an assortment of images, videos, and transcripts I have from the event in Portlaoise. I wrote key thoughts in my Traveler's Notebook and used a Rode Wireless Go microphone (the black plastic device with the fuzzy windshield covering in a previous post) to record snippets during many of the talks and panel discussions.
I've easily a half day's work ahead of me if I lean into the assortment of handwritten notes, photos, audio clips, and transcripts from the day. I think I'll take that deep dive because I want to contribute to and feel the energy of Grow Remote Ireland.
I left the marvelous venue thinking I should do more to add my voice to the grow remote chorus. I'm going to start doing that with local media and internally through our university news network. I expect to have 20 pieces of content shared in my Grow Remote Ireland photoset.
This blog post is a scratch space for me to transpose some of the discoveries Otter.ai surfaced from several hours of recordings I made while listening in the audience. Here are some of those high points, generated by artificial intelligence, that I believe should be refashioned into a series of posts about the value of remote work in Ireland.
Running a remote office
Who are the people most attracted to remote work?
The decision to hire locally and internationally.
The impact of collaboration on performance.
Hiring for different roles.
Dealing with positive feedback.
Optimization at the cost of empathy.
The challenges of remote sales and onboarding.
How to remove the barriers to employment.
Flexible working in general.
How to keep employees engaged.
Remote working vs in-office promotion.
The size of the company and the remote working policy.
How often do you go into the office?
What are people missing in the workplace?
How do we set up moments of connection?
Challenges for Ireland
Challenges and opportunities for Ireland as a global destination for remote working.
Rural Ireland is dying and the government don't care.
How to remove the barriers to employment.
Building more housing.
Offering stronger tax breaks.
The political dimension
How do politicians feel about remote working?
Brussels’s perspective on remote working.
Rural areas and their opportunities.
The problem with the housing situation.
Investing with employers and tax breaks.
The progress made in Ireland.
Ireland has gone from a protected closed economy to an open free market economy.
The importance of focusing on indigenous entrepreneurs.
Empowering remote workers and real estate.
The long-term solution to the problem of space.
Things we need to focus on in the budget.
The size of the company and the remote working policy.
Enhancing Grow Remote Ireland
How to become a Grow Remote volunteer
Educate the next generation about remote work.
How to keep employees engaged.
Remote working vs in-office promotion.
People need knowledge, skills and resources.
How to make remote work more accessible.
The importance of having a local planning committee.
The importance of being a community person.
Connecting rural communities with remote work.
How do you build a network?
How to create good communities that welcome people.
Building resilience into the community.
Getting involved in the local community.
Bringing the team back together.
I plan to offer separate posts on each of these main topics. But first, I'm exploring a treasure trove of information inside the Grow Remote Slack Channel. It's much more vibrant than when I joined it in 2020.
[Bernie Goldbach teaches digital transformation on the Clonmel Digital Campus for the Technological University of the Shannon. Tracy Keogh is pictured handing out voting arrows to a discussion panel.]