21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams

Brought to you by Virtual not Distant, the 21st Century Work Life podcast looks at leading and managing remote teams, online collaboration and working in distributed organisations. Join Pilar Orti, guests & co-hosts as they shine the spotlight on the most relevant themes and news relevant to the modern knowledge worker.

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Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 48m. Bisher sind 403 Folge(n) erschienen. Jede Woche gibt es eine neue Folge dieses Podcasts.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 12 days 14 hours 41 minutes

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episode 141: Psychological Flexibility


In today’s episode, Richard A. MacKinnon explains the concept of psychological flexibility and how we can change our behaviour to be values-led rather than emotion-led. If you enjoy this episode, check out the ten episodes of the Management Café...


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 October 5, 2017  48m
 
 

episode 140: FIckle Friday: Employees feel monitored because of need for speed


Further reflections after yesterday's episode on how employees are being tracked so that customers can get better service.  I also came across this article to complement our short discussion on the nature and future of education:  Who's...


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 September 29, 2017  7m
 
 

episode 140: Sensors in the office, LinkedIn Data and more!


Visit In this episode, Pilar and Lisette discuss five articles that have caught their eye in the last few months. (1) Scraping data from LinkedIn to get insights into your employees. Hmm… “The law's authors could not possibly have envisioned...


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 September 28, 2017  51m
 
 

episode 139: Episode Appearances


Before contacting me to appear in the podcast, or on behalf of a potential guest, please listen to this episode.  If you are a listener, go ahead just sent me a note, we don;t have to record a full episode, anything will do. Just email me and...


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 September 27, 2017  5m
 
 

episode 139: How to Stop Worrying About Whether People Are Getting the Work Done at Home


Just touching base with you today while I catch up with the backlog of conversations. Here's a little blog post that was quite popular last month: "How to Stop Worrying about Whether People are Getting the Work Done at Home". If you prefer to read the...


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 September 21, 2017  5m
 
 

episode 139: Don’t Ditch Those Update Meetings… Yet


In this episode, Pilar explains the benefits of having regular update meetings with your remote team. visit Pilar mentions this article by Amy Edmondson and Bror Saxberg Putting Lifelong Learning on the CEO Agenda. (We cover Psychological Safety...


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 September 14, 2017  27m
 
 

episode 138: Cultural Differences in Virtual Teams


In this episode Pilar talks to Nancy Settle-Murphy about the challenges of working with people based in other countries. visit In the introduction, Pilar shares the different reasons why people might not be acting on feedback, or asking for...


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 September 7, 2017  40m
 
 

episode 137: Under New Management


In this episode, Pilar talks to David Burkus, author of “Under New Management”, an overview of those organisations experimenting with new ways of leading teams and managing people. visit If you would like to be a Beta Reader of “Online...


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 August 31, 2017  56m
 
 

episode 136: Engineering Happiness at Automattic


Have we got a treat for you today. In this episode, both Lisette and Pilar talk to T Briseno, Happiness Engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. visit T. shares what her job as Happiness Engineer entails and how she interacts...


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 August 24, 2017  44m
 
 

episode 135: Going Remote in Your Organisation


In this episode, Pilar talks about the importance of thinking holistically about introducing “remote” into an organisation: how will it change a company’s culture? How will it challenge people’s identities? Visit   It’s the summer, and...


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 August 17, 2017  30m