Happy New Year from the seafront!

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Happy New Year from the seafront!

From21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams

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Jan 2, 2024

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A quick happy new year from Pilar, cradled by the sound of the sea.

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Jan 2, 2024

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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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WLP14 Yammer and Enterprise Collaboration Tools: Pilar visits the Yammer offices by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP26 Tripbod: 00:30 Pilar talks a bit about how online communities have helped her build relationships and how many businesses are now relying on communities to sell their products. 07:30 Sally describes what Tripbod is and how the company evolved. 12:25 The... by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
37 min listen
WLP08 Phil Hayes and Coaching: What is a coach and why is coaching an important skill to have at work? Pilar talks to Phil Hayes, Chairman of Management Futures. 00.31 Pilar talks a bit about coaching and how our new attitude to work has enabled this profession to grow.... by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP01 Happiness at Work and Work Holidays: includes virtual coffee with Lisette Sutherland by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP06 Sinead MacManus and Digital: How can digital skills be employed in the workplace? Sinead MacManus talks about the work that Fluency is doing in London and globally to help young people improve their digital skills.00.30 Pilar talks a bit about Sinead' s work (transcript... by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP02 CreateSpaceLondon and 3D Printing: In this second episode of the 21st Work Life podcast, I visit CreateSpaceLondon, a place for artists and makers in the West of the UK capital. So, today’s episode consists of Rory Gallagher (founder)’s tour and I also I stopped via... by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP11 Just Saying Hello: Welcome to a tiny episode of 21st Century Work Life. I was actually just going to release a note saying that there wouldn’t be an episode today, but as I was about to do that, I got thinking about some work life related stuff and I thought, why... by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP10 The World of Work in 2014: Join Pilar and Lisette for a much longer virtual coffee than usual, recapping some of 2014's work stories and picking some of the trends. Our starting point was a series of articles, which you can find in www.wlpodcast.com. Do share with us your... by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP12 Shannon Hughes and Online Learning: 00.30 Pilar talks about MOOCs and the use of technology in learning. 12.43 Shannon introduces Udemy and the story of its founder.16.30 What people are seeking to learn and how the way in which we interact with online learning is changing. 26.00 Udemy... by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP05 Feedback across the Organisation and Team: includes Virtual Coffee with Lisette by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP16 Mike Russell and New Media: The guest in today's episode is Mike Russell, Creative Director of Music Radio Creative, amongst other things. 00:30 Pilar talks about how the world of voiceover has changed and she has some updates. 09:50 Mike talks about Music Radio Creative and how... by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP38 Matt Alder and The Future of Recruitment: 00:30 Pilar talks a bit about how mindset is changing in recruitment. (Script below.)She mentions a and an article about 09:05 How Matt ended up working in Digital Recruitment 16:00 How social media can help you recruit talent.The importance of... by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP17 Productivity: This podcast focuses on working productively from home. 00:30 Pilar introduces the theme of productivity and some blogs. (Transcript in wlpodcast.com.)04:13 Kirstin ODonovan, Productivity Coach has a few words to say.07:15 The importance of... by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP22 Thoughts from the NoPants festival: For more thoughts on this festival and to see the slides from the talk Virtual, not Distant, visit http://virtualnotdistant.com/no-pants-festival-reflections/ by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP25 Remote Working: Blessing or Curse?: A light look at virtual working. by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP09 Recruiting for Virtual Teams: In this episode, shares her experience of recruiting four new people onto the virtual team of Happy Melly, of which she is part of. 00.30 Pilar gives a brief intro to the podcast, with some reasons of why this episode might also apply to co-located... by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
39 min listen
WLP04 Jurgen Appelo and Management 3.0: Jurgen Appelo is the author of Management 3.0 Workout. I talk to him about motivation in organisations and the story behind the organisation Happy Melly. Jurgen shares with us a couple of the tools he describes in his book, like the Delegation Boards... by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP15 Trust at Work: 00:45 Pilar talks about "the problem with trust" at work and the Trust Equation, created by the Trusted Advisor. (for transcript check out wlpodcast.com)10:36 Virtual Coffee with Lisette.11:20 Pilar and Lisette plug the No Pants Festival.... by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP03 Informal Communication in Teams: includes virtual coffee with Lisette Sutherland by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP27 Tracking Results: Monitoring progress in your virtual team by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP19 Team Retrospectives: Today's episode includes a Virtual Coffee with Lisette, where we talk about how to organise and lay down the foundations for useful team retrospectives. (We are borrowing the main aspects from the Agile world.) 00: 30 Pilar has some updates,... by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP18 Mariano Tufro and Global Leadership: 00:30 Pilar recommends a TED talk by Ricardo Semler. (transcript can be found in wlpodcast.com)09:30 Mariano talks about Agility, Mindfulness, Global Teams and Connectivity as four crucial aspects of modern leadership development. 14:20 Reassesing... by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP13 Face to face and Virtual Meetings: includes Virtual Coffee with Lisette by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP07 Values: includes Virtual Coffee with Lisette by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP29 Working in Global Teams: Working across nations by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP23 Collaboration Tools: Helping you choose the tools for virtual team by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP61 Conflict in Virtual Teams: We talk about conflict in virtual teams, the different kinds of conflict, how to prevent destructive conflict from happening and what to do if it does surface. Introduction If you are in London on 1 March 2016, join us here: Find out about our... by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP33 Onboarding in Virtual Teams: First steps in building a virtual team by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP 45 Feeling Disconnected: How to avoid isolation in virtual teams by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
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WLP24 Language Localisation: 00:30 Pilar introduces the podcast, talking a bit about her own experience dubbing e-learning and corporate videos. She has a few tips for you if you're creating products/training to reach your global employees. (For script visit... by 21st Century Work Life and leading remote teams
51 min listen

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Happy New Year from the seafront!

Happy New Year from the seafront!

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