21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams

Pilar has a go at translating this great summary of the world of work, written by the Spanish organisation Future for Work Institute.  You can have a look at the original article here:  Don't forget to visit  for more on remote work. ...

Pilar and Lisette review the last year and look forward to see what 2018 might bring. visit “Leadership in Remote Teams” online course 12 – 23 Feb 2018 Why Lisette won’t be joining us for the first two months of 2018. The difficulty of...

Maya Middlemiss shares her experiences as a freelancer and joining Virtual not Distant and Management 3.0. visit Check out our new open course Leadership in Remote Teams, starting in February 2018. We also deliver in-house. Find out more about the...

Pilar hops on the microphone for this Fickle Friday episode:  Reflections on one of my jobs today as a voiceover. No personal stuff, no quick round robin of how everyone was feeling or any "chit chat". And yet we did a cracking job. So, why do...

In this episode, Pilar talks about the fears that arise around the use/overuse of technology when we introduce a remote setup. visit In this episode, Pilar talks about the fears that arise around the use/overuse of technology when we introduce a...

Pilar talks to Elise Keith, co-founder of Lucid Meetings. We talk about why “training how to run meetings” often fails and why you should take a holistic approach when trying to improve meetings in your organisation. visit Pilar mentions the new...

A short rambling by Pilar on how the word "learning" is usually used to mean information-absorption or acquiring new skills, rather than the broadest meaning, whereby we are constantly adjusting our behaviour and changing how we do things.  ...

Working out loud takes effort and energy – and it becomes really hard to do when we are struggling with the work or when we are afraid of breaking the “good vibe” of the team or of not being a “positive team member”. Links mentioned in the...

Morgan Legge from Convert.com shares the company’s journey adopting a “holacratic approach”. visit What Convert does and what the original team looked like. Why the company decided to go down the Holacracy route: “to give people the freedom...

There are many ways of learning from others in our remote team: through asking for feedback and running activities where we can learn from each other. A few updates: Lisette is looking for beta readers and there will be a range of ways in which to...