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WLP339 Going Async-First to Promote Inclusivity

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - November 02, 2023 05:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
In this conversation, Pilar and Sumeet Gayathri Moghe delve into the intricacies of remote work, asynchronous communication, and the challenges of global collaboration. Sumeet also shares why he “worked out loud” as part of the process of writing the book “The Async-First Playbook”.  For the ...

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WLP338 What's Going On with Remote Freelancing

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - October 19, 2023 05:06 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
In our previous episode, our guests Tammy and Theresa discussed career progression in remote and global teams. In this episode, Maya and Pilar look at another sector of the working population: freelancers, and discuss what’s going on with remote freelancers and remote workers who want to access ...

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WLP337 Career Progression in Remote Teams - the local and global perspective

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - October 05, 2023 05:48 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Pilar welcomes back Tammy Bjelland, CEO of Workplaceless and Theresa Hollema, author of “Virtual Teams Across Cultures” to talk about career progression in remote and global teams. Tammy covers how organisations can ensure that remote employees don’t miss out on career development in hybrid sett...

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WLP336 What's Going On: Thoughtful Experimentation and Change in Organisations

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - September 21, 2023 05:49 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
We’re trying something different for the next few months for the 21st Century Work Life podcast. Rather than commenting on recent news and articles, Maya and Pilar will look at What’s Going On by commenting and expanding on the themes brought up by the monthly guest-driven episodes. Please let u...

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WLP335 Designing the Hybrid Model at Rabobank

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - September 07, 2023 06:07 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
In today's episode, Pilar talks to Jan Nieuweboer, senior consultant on hybrid work at Rabobank, and spokesperson for the Future of Work and Hybrid Working. He describes how plans for changing the ways of working at Rabobank were accelerated by the pandemic, and how the working model has evolved...

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WLP334 Popping in for a quick hello... and some Shakespeare!

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - August 10, 2023 05:25 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
We're taking a break from our regular schedule this summer, but Pilar couldn't help it and she's popping in to let you know about some of her plans - including some adapted Shakespeare, which you can follow below.  Please share your thoughts through our contact form. https://www.virtualnotdista...

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New Legislation Updates in Ireland - Unpaid Leave Entitlements

The HRLocker Podcast - July 20, 2023 10:00 - 32 minutes
On this podcast episode, we are joined by Terence Morgan, Director of Business Development and Ruairi Guckian, Owner of GHR Consulting.  We run through the new legislation updates in Ireland, focusing on the new unpaid leave entitlements under the work-life balance Act 2023. During this show, w...

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WLP333 Handling Remote Employee Terminations

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - July 13, 2023 04:36 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
In this episode, Pilar talks with Julieta Moreno, an international employment and mobility lawyer. Julieta shares her experiences working with employment of record (EOR) companies, which help businesses employ resources in countries where they don't have an entity, taking care of the administrat...

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WLP332 Whats Going On: Everyone's More Engaged... and More Stressed Out!

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - July 06, 2023 05:06 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
In today’s episode, Maya and Pilar cover the State of the Global Workplace 2023 report by Gallup and the Forbes article Our Changing Psychological Contract at Work, by Keith Ferrazzi. Pilar introduces a concept from a book "No Hard Feelings," by Liz and Mollie, which discusses reasons why emp...

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WLP331 Navigating Conflict to Strengthen Collaboration

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - June 22, 2023 05:43 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Lech Guzowski, a workplace culture facilitator, emphasizes understanding individual needs and responses to conflict for effective workplace communication. He uses the Thomas Kilmann conflict model to explain different ways people respond to conflict based on their levels of assertiveness and coo...

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WLP330 Creativity and Productivity: The Upside and Downside of Remote Work Trends

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - June 08, 2023 05:17 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
This episode covers recent research on three different aspects of new and established ways of working: the effect of asynchronous work on folk music creation, the trends in use of online tools and productivity global productivity in the “work from anywhere” economy. (Oh, and we’ve thrown in some...

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WLP329 Principles of Asynchronous Communication

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - June 01, 2023 04:05 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
In this bonus episode, Pilar introduces the Five Principles of Asynchronous Communication:  Team interactions work best when they have one focus: co-ordination, collaboration or connection. Teamwork happens in stages, and these can happen asynchronously or synchronously. Designing togethe...

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Navigating Challenges, Driving Change, and Measuring Success in the Future of Work

The HRLocker Podcast - May 29, 2023 14:00 - 56 minutes
In this podcast episode, we speak with Siobhan Sweeney, Senior Global Director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Element. We explore the key challenges that companies face when embarking on DEI initiatives and discuss effective strategies to overcome them. As well, we approach the role of ...

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WLP328 The Complexity of Hybrid Culture

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - May 25, 2023 05:39 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Our guest this month is Wayne Turmel, also co-host of Long Distance Work Life. Wayne has been studying remote work for almost 20 years. He now works within the Kevin Eikenbery group helping leaders in organisations. The word “remote” is becoming redundant as working with remote workers is now ...

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WLP327 What's Going On: It's Messy, It's Complicated and It's Evolving Fast

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - May 11, 2023 05:58 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Coming out of the forced-remote period is getting messy: mandates to return to the office, forced working from home, diversity at a global level in how remote work is regulated, plus the ever-evolving technology! Recorded on 19 April 2023, this episode also includes guests Guy Van Leemput and ...

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WLP326 Solar Spotlight on the Startup Spirit

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - April 27, 2023 05:06 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Today we are joined by Sergey Fedorov (co-founder and CTO) and Tatiana Ivanova (Business Manager) from A1 SolarStore. This is an unusual kind of organisation for us to feature on the podcast because they deal with physical products, and real-world customer installations - but new ways of working...

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WLP325 Who's Up for "Head of Remote"?

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - April 13, 2023 05:14 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
A special episode, as it was inspired by a message from one of her listeners, who wanted to find out about more about the role of Head of Remote. Pilar reached out to Tyler Sellhorn, a teacher-oriented technologist who maintains the website headofremote.xyz. For the full show notes, head over ...

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WLP324 What's Going On: Control the Tech before it controls you!

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - March 30, 2023 05:31 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
In this What’s Going On episode, Maya and Pilar talk about the range of features in collaboration technology that could affect the way in which we work together, without us even noticing. Recorded on 23 March 2023, you can find the show notes over at  https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/podcasts...

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Empowering your people in the Connected Workplace

The HRLocker Podcast - March 20, 2023 11:00 - 53 minutes
In this episode, we are joined by Shane Conneely to discuss remote, hybrid and flexible working, the return to the office full-time, recent layoffs and how management styles may have to change due to the ever-changing workforce. Shane Conneely is the Director of Policy and Communications at Cha...

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WLP323 Grow Your Company through Growing Your People

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - March 16, 2023 06:43 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Pilar welcomes returning guest Robert Glazer to talk about helping people develop and thrive in an organisation, the subject of Robert’s latest book “Elevate Your Team: Empower Your Team To Reach Their Full Potential and Build A Business That Builds Leaders.“ You can check out the full show no...

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WLP322 What's Going On: Shifting our Work Time and Third Places of Work

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - March 02, 2023 06:39 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
In this What’s Going On episode, Maya and Pilar discuss recent research into what people do with the time they save not having to commute to work, why people use third spaces of work and other tech updates. Recorded on 22 February 2023. Below are some time codes to guide you through the episod...

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WLP321 Leadership Visibility and Transparency in Remote Organisations

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - February 16, 2023 06:11 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Pilar talks to returning guest Mark Kilby about the different ways in which leaders can gain visibility in remote organisations, the need for pervasive and transparent communication, as well as the benefits of visualising our work. Check out Mark’s book: From Chaos To Successfully Distributed A...

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WLP320 What's Going On - Trends According to Humans and ChatGPT

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - February 02, 2023 06:04 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
In this What’s Going On episode, Maya and Pilar take inspiration from a post (not a very sophisticated one) generated by ChatGPT about the challenges facing those working from home this year. They also review articles by humans, on the future of work and the future of office spaces. Recorded on ...

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WLP319 Lessons Learned from Scaling a Remote Business

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - January 19, 2023 06:10 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
In this episode, Shannon Teague shares her story scaling a remote business, and some of the things she learned along the way. For the full show notes visit  Links: You can find Shannon and her course over at www.scalingupsimplified.com - and she’s got a free course on hiring remotely to ...

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Management Café Repurpose: Tackling the Asynchronous Environment

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - January 12, 2023 06:23 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
We'll be back to our normal programme next week, but in case you're looking for something to listen to around leading remote teams, here's a conversation between Tim Burgess and Pilar Orti on tackling the challenges of the asynchronous environment as managers/leaders. This is episode 38 from Man...

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WLP318 How Things Changed This Year in Organisations and for Freelancers

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - December 20, 2022 06:51 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
In this What’s Going On episode, Maya and Pilar review how new ways of working have landed in organisations and how the freelance landscape is evolving - mainly in relation to remote work. Recorded on 5 December 2022. They cover the following articles: Is it time to revisit unproductive fle...

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The future of business is Employee Experience (EX) with Belinda Gannaway

The HRLocker Podcast - December 13, 2022 09:00 - 36 minutes
In this ever-changing world, the experience that your employees have during their employee lifecycle in your organisation has never been more important.  Great employee experience is built on trust, support, and collaboration and most of all, communication, in a meaningful, productive way. We ...

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WLP317 The Shift towards Asynchronous Operations

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - December 08, 2022 06:11 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Today's guest is Daphnée Laforest, who is also helping organisations adopt asynchronous practices to make remote work sustainable.  Daphne is the host of the podcast The Remote First podcast, which started during the pandemic to help companies adopt remote work, and now it focuses on optimisin...

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WLP316 What’s Going On: Remote Education, the Unexpected Consequences of WFH and Tool Convergence

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - November 24, 2022 06:35 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
In this What’s Going On episode, Maya and Pilar talk about how online education is evolving and what this means for the future workforce, the rise of births linked to remote work, as well as a couple of news around tech and our community.  Recorded on 15 November 2022. The beginning of the ep...

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WLP316 What’s Going On: Remote Education, the Unexpected Consequences of WFH and Tool Convergence

21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams - November 24, 2022 06:35 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
In this What’s Going On episode, Maya and Pilar talk about how online education is evolving and what this means for the future workforce, the rise of births linked to remote work, as well as a couple of news around tech and our community.  Recorded on 15 November 2022. The beginning of the ep...

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