Guest speaker: Sacha Connor, Founder of Virtual Work Insider

On Working from Home

Burnout is more of a concern than lack of productivity.

Virtual Meetings

• Make sure it is really necessary
• Avoid tourists in meeting – include only people that need to be there
• Pre-work – what can be done in advance to make the meeting take the shortest time possible
• Video (versus audio-only) is better for facilitation
• Inclusivity
  • Ice-breakers – giving everybody a voice in meetings
    • E.g., what luggage are you bringing in this meeting? What’s going on outside of your camera?
  • Encourage participation from everyone
• Once the meeting ends, how do we communicate?
  • Have common agreement regarding which channel to communicate on regarding a particular concern
  • For example, if something needs to be documented, use email for paper-trail
• Who are the key stakeholders internally, externally
  • Find out which is a good time to engage with them

On Creating Boundaries

• Allow for heads-down work – for productivity
• Allow for people to get things done when it fits around their lives and schedule
• Don’t be strict in 8 hours work
• Balance life with kids, pets, etc.

Lastly

• Don’t wait up to “go back to normal” before planning for things—adapt!
• Balance of both People and Productivity

Influence: rule one: have something to say worth paying attention to.

An audience comment

Links from the Audience’s Comments

• https://figma.com/
• https://www.loom.com/
• http://moodmeterapp.com/
• https://mural.co/
• https://remo.co/
• https://shape.space/
• https://slack.com/
• https://sprintbase.io/

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