21st Century Work Life - WLP106 Communication and Motivation in Virtual Teams

WLP106 Communication and Motivation in Virtual Teams

01/19/17 • 54 min

In this episode Pilar and Lisette review some of the latest news in the world of work and offer some guidance on how to review your communication infrastructure in your virtual team.

Pilar introduces this episode and she mentions this book (well, she mentions Tim Harford but can't remember the title!) Messy: How to be creative and resilient in a Tidy-Minded World

She mentions this episode from Evidence Talks about the Right to Disconnect law in France. http://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/4994834

Let us know what you think of this format: http://virtualnotdistant.com/contact-us/

The Conversation with Lisette and Pilar

Oh, man, the book... What Lisette has learned about her writing process.

We talk about Trello's aquisition by Atlassian and the comments in Michael Pryor's blog post. http://blog.trello.com/trello-atlassian

Are we getting used to tools being free?

Pilar has discovered a new feature in Zoom which could help more people jump on video calls. Listeners: Does it bother you to see yourself on the screen during video calls?

Pilar is co-hosting a new podcast. http://www.futureworkcentre.com/what-we-do/education/evidencetalks/

How CEO's can lead the transition from office-based to virtual and encourage people to use tech mindfully. http://digitalworkplacegroup.com/2016/06/16/im-working-weekends-but-ignore-my-ceo-habits/

France's new law, the right to disconnect. Do we need legislation to encourage conversation? https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/dec/31/french-workers-win-legal-right-to-avoid-checking-work-email-out-of-hours

Have a listen to the More or Less episode: Does Sweden Really Have a Six Hour Day? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04kt3p6

The Teaching Bit - Building a Communication Infrastructure for your Virtual Team

around 30mins mark Pilar talks about the PIC framework to help you build a communication infrastructure for a virtual team and how you can cross-check it with self-determination theory of motivation, to make sure you're not dampening intrinsic motivation.

Personal information Information - documents Collaboration

When you're designing processes and choosing tools, and role-modelling behaviours , also keep an eye out that you're not squashing any of the three components of intrinsic motivation: autonomy, competence and relatedness.

Tools mentioned: Linoit http://en.linoit.com/ Trello Do get in touch! http://virtualnotdistant.com/contact-us/

In this episode Pilar and Lisette review some of the latest news in the world of work and offer some guidance on how to review your communication infrastructure in your virtual team.

Pilar introduces this episode and she mentions this book (well, she mentions Tim Harford but can't remember the title!) Messy: How to be creative and resilient in a Tidy-Minded World

She mentions this episode from Evidence Talks about the Right to Disconnect law in France. http://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/4994834

Let us know what you think of this format: http://virtualnotdistant.com/contact-us/

The Conversation with Lisette and Pilar

Oh, man, the book... What Lisette has learned about her writing process.

We talk about Trello's aquisition by Atlassian and the comments in Michael Pryor's blog post. http://blog.trello.com/trello-atlassian

Are we getting used to tools being free?

Pilar has discovered a new feature in Zoom which could help more people jump on video calls. Listeners: Does it bother you to see yourself on the screen during video calls?

Pilar is co-hosting a new podcast. http://www.futureworkcentre.com/what-we-do/education/evidencetalks/

How CEO's can lead the transition from office-based to virtual and encourage people to use tech mindfully. http://digitalworkplacegroup.com/2016/06/16/im-working-weekends-but-ignore-my-ceo-habits/

Have a listen to the More or Less episode: Does Sweden Really Have a Six Hour Day? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04kt3p6

The Teaching Bit - Building a Communication Infrastructure for your Virtual Team

Personal information Information - documents Collaboration

Tools mentioned: Linoit http://en.linoit.com/ Trello Do get in touch! http://virtualnotdistant.com/contact-us/

Previous Episode

WLP105 Observing Humans at Work

In today's episode, Pilar chats to Curtis James, who observes people at work and gives visibility to those jobs that are often invisible.

visit www.virtualnotdistant.com

An incredibly short introduction. Pilar is actually back after the conversation, to add some comments. Remember to check out these other two podcasts: Management Café and Evidence Talks.

The Conversation with Curtis James

03:45mins Curtis's journey working in organisations.

http://www.wearefieldwork.com/

Impartiality when working in an organisation, documenting the workforce.

How Curtis documents the workforce. How they recreate smells; exhibition workshops.

"All companies are going to have good and bad stuff happening in them. The very fact that they're embarking on this kind of work is something that they should be proud of, because it's about being transparent, and this should be the beginning of finding new ways of working."

The importance of having collaborators during this type of work.

What Curtis has learned about himself and how he's changed as a practitioner. (How he's allowed his work to change him and how he's changed to change the work. )

How BeyondWork and Fieldwork sit alongside each other.

Beyond Work Radio.

How do we end up doing what we're doing?

http://www.thisisbeyondwork.com/work-journal/2017/1/6/beyond-work-radio-show-4http://www.thisisbeyondwork.com/work-journal/2016/12/8/beyond-work-radio-show-2

Working outdoors. Looking for "those whose jobs are often invisible".

The multiple reasons why workers are treated badly.

Fulfillment vs Happiness. http://virtualnotdistant.com/on-happiness-at-work/

Further questions you could ask after knowing whether your people are "happy".

Call to action: share what you do at work and ask others too!

Pilar's Conclusions

42:30mins Don't send people on training, when they don't want to go!

(I found following the potato funny.)

Happiness at work and work life balance.