by Riya Sander As businesses grow to achieve an international presence, more daunting challenges are presenting themselves on the table for workers and managers alike. Managers are particularly finding themselves unable to cope with the challenges of managing remote employees. On the other hand, workers are being forced to adopt the concept of being remotely...
Read moreby Molood Noori Alavijeh Should remote teams be discouraged or tolerated?! As I work with IT companies most of the time, I get asked this question a lot by managers in those companies, especially if the company is transforming to agile ways of working. To those of you who know me and/or have attended the...
Read moreby Devin Morrissey Remote work and flexible working arrangements are gaining traction in the mainstream workforce. Previously labelled unconventional or alternative, remote work arrangements are forcing businesses to reimagine what normal looks like and change the way teams are managed. Unfortunately, not all businesses are providing programs of the same quality. In some environments, remote...
Read moreby Mary Walton How many times during your career have you heard that communication is the key to success? Working in an office, this is all well and good, but when it comes to managing remote teams, how can you boost communication when you’re never in the same room together? Today, we’ll explore seven keys ways...
Read moreby Lisette Sutherland Technology is making the traditional 9-to-5 grind less necessary. Mobile devices, centralized data, and all kinds of apps and software are helping us stay connected wherever we are. So naturally, this creates new possibilities for increased work–life freedom, as more and more of us can work remotely. In the past, when we...
Read moreby Louise Brace Our colleague and friend, Lisette Sutherland of Collaboration Superpowers is an expert on the subject of working from anywhere. She demonstrates through her podcasts and workshops, just how easy it is to work outside of the traditional office environment with all of today’s super tools we have at our fingertips. As it becomes...
Read moreEditor’s Note: This blog was written when Management 3.0 was under the umbrella company called Happy Melly One (HMO). Any reference to HMO is from that time and does not apply to today. by Pilar Orti Trello has become a very popular project management tool with both collocated and virtual teams. I have been using...
Read moreby Louise Brace So I’ve been working on this remote working team for nine months now and our team is pretty tight. Some of us are more online and virtually engaged than others, but we all get together at least once a week, normally twice and that includes our weekly Kitten Talk, where we drop...
Read moreby Jurgen Appelo Editor’s Note: This blog was written when Management 3.0’s parent company was called Happy Melly One and when we had launched an experimental project called Happy Melly, which focused on happiness at work. Today Happy Melly has been absorbed by Management 3.0, which is part of the Happy Melly Group. No matter...
Read moreby Lisette Sutherland Last week, the Management 3.0 Team had a team retrospective… remotely, of course. We recently changed the way we organize ourselves–from a team of nine that met regularly to splitting into four different crews that met at different times. We did this because we need to scale, and even though we’re a...
Read moreby Lisette Sutherland Each team has a unique way of communicating. And each team has a particular combination of personality types. Just like an orchestra tunes up before a performance, or an athlete warms up before a practice, tuning a virtual team helps get everyone on the same page. In many of my interviews with...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins Just like reality TV killed the video star, the rise of flexible working, if welcomed with open but skeptical arms, is likely to kill the nine-to-five office grind. Except for surgeons, construction workers, beauticians and a couple of other hands-on jobs, why is it mandatory to be at a certain place at...
Read moreby Vasco Duarte Happy Melly is a worldwide network of businesses and we always like to work with the best. If you’re committed to our purpose, you can even live on Antarctica for all we care. (Or Honolulu of course) As you can imagine, we do a lot of our communications virtually. Skype calls, Hangouts,...
Read moreby Vasco Duarte Last week my ghostwriter and I had a heated discussion about offices. On this blog we always write about remote working, and we tell people that work is ‘something you do, not a place you go to’. (Our lovely board member Lisette even wrote The Ultimate Recipe For Remote Working) And then that loser...
Read moreby Vasco Duarte This weekend I did some research on remote working. (One of the advantages of being fictional; you don’t need time to relax in the sun or silly stuff like that) On Infoq I found a great article called ‘Remote Working Works’ by Tom Howlett who works at a company called Biomni. Since Happy...
Read moreby Vasco Duarte I just finished reading a blog post by Lisette Sutherland where she talks about celebrating success. Important because, in her words, it ‘acknowledged an important milestone and gave us a chance to assess the work that was done’. She compares celebrating success with climbing a mountain. Looking forward it seems endless, but...
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