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The concept of working from anywhere isn't new. The COVID-19 pandemic has just made it more popular now.
This week Slack hosted a great webinar “Navigating the disruption of work” which was essentially Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield chatting with Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes.
What a privilege it was to hear these 2 leaders talk!!!
If you jump at everything that moves, then you’ll eventually get to a point where all you’re doing is jumping.
How much time do you waste or see being wasted reacting when a better approach would be being selective at what gets responded to?
This is the classic quandary a conscientious busy person finds themselves in.
The knock-on effect of the WHO declaring COVID-19 as a pandemic is significant.
While many businesses are telling staff to work from home, the reality is everyone doesn’t do it well. For instance, research from Cardiff University report 39% or remote workers work longer hours to complete their work!!!
“Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work” – Seth Godin
Justin (not his real name) was a great guy who got along well with his colleagues.
What was undermining Justin though was he had the dangerous combination of being super conscientious and a people pleaser…
“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities” – Stephen Covey
At some point any parent will undoubtedly have been asked:
Are we there yet?
When will dinner be ready?
It’s apparent from an early age we want clarity. Young children often struggle to comprehend when there isn’t alignment between their expectations and the response. Whereas, adults are better at understanding this.
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light” - Aristotle
In the workplace, hard skills are qualifications and specific occupation technical skills that determine our degree of fit to particular job roles. Whereas, soft skills are what we use to function, interact, connect and communicate. While it’s necessary to have specific hard and soft skills, it’s the soft skills that are more important to our life skills.
“If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.” – John C. Maxwell
You have too much work to do. The impact from this has you working long hours, yet you still seem to miss the occasional deadline because the volume of work is so monotonous. You have the option of delegating some of your work, but you don’t because you’re too busy to do so. Why don’t you leverage the power from delegating effectively?
“A lot of times people don't know what they want until you show it to them” – Steve Jobs
Proactive employees are self-starters who are inquisitive problem solvers. While it might be aspirational to behave like this, the stark reality is a large percentage of employees find it difficult to do so in a technology-driven world. Instead, it’s easy to get caught up in a reactive loop responding to demands that impede the ability to be being proactive.
