I am sure you’ve experienced it too: it is that time of the year, and during that meeting where everybody is invited, beautiful slides are presented with the new vision and the even newer strategy; it looks great, but you hear that voice in your head: “it’ll never happen”. Or what’s even worse, you look […]
Author: Andrea Lamelas Puga
I have been thinking about it for a while now: how can we make remote onboarding easier, more effective and more impactful? It is not an easy task. If your new onboarding strategy is “let’s do what we did but with video calls”, it will not work. Even if you throw the “let’s check in […]
I am sure you are feeling more nervous than usual, wondering if you made the right choice and playing in your head over and over how it will go. It is very brave to start a new job during these times, no matter which circumstances brought you here. Feel proud about it, because it takes […]
After the blog post about remote meetings, I got several questions about how to run remote workshops and questioning their efficiency. There are indeed many differences between meetings and workshops, but I do believe that it is possible to run both remotely in an efficient way. Meetings have the main purpose of sharing information, monitoring […]
Management itself is an art. And these days we all need to be masters. From one day to another, just like that, your team and you are not sitting in the same place. With no time to prepare we are pushed to be more more efficient and creative on the way we manage our teams. […]
Remote meetings can be challenging. But these days, remote meetings are tough. Usually the main challenge is to keep people focused and interested. Nowadays, we need to add the self-isolation conditions to it. And this is not about tools. What you need are great facilitators who can keep the focus and energize everybody; people who […]
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Tips for empty offices times
Choosing to work from home is NOT the same as the situation we are in. We need more than tools to make this work. Studies suggest that the main issues we will encounter are being unable to unplug, loneliness and increased difficulty in collaboration and communication. Tips for you, as a leader Allow flexibility in […]
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It is time to define Operations
During the last 10 years working in Operations, in several organizations at different levels, I found myself quite often explaining what Operations actually means. I’ve been asked many times what it really brings to the table and how to measure its impact. To be honest, I didn’t completely understand what it meant when I was […]