Remote, Inc. by Robert C. Pozen

Author:Robert C. Pozen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harper Business
Published: 2021-03-05T00:00:00+00:00

If you move around throughout the day or week, match your work environment to the task at hand by thinking through the types of spaces you have available, and the types of work suited to each one.

Build a remote work wardrobe that supports your professional image, as well as your physical and mental well-being. Consider separating it into “home,” “video call,” and “office” wardrobes.

Part IV

Essential Skills for Remote Workers

Most professional work consists of some combination of three major activities: meeting, reading, and writing. Musical theater stars are known as a “triple threat” if they excel at singing, dancing, and acting. You can be a triple threat in your own career if you excel at all three of your core activities.

And yes, all three are learned skills that you can develop and master. If you are great at leading online meetings and making the most of the meetings you attend, you’ll have stronger relationships, better access to information, and more time available for other work. As a remote worker, reading and writing are your essential tools for communicating with your boss, your clients, and your colleagues. If you are a consistent and efficient reader, that will be a significant comparative advantage for your Business of One—you will stay informed about your organization and field, and develop your own knowledge and expertise. Similarly, your Business of One will be greatly enhanced if you are a clear and compelling writer—you will be more persuasive and influential in your company and beyond.

In this part of the book, each of the three chapters grounds you in a fundamental professional skill, with basic best practices that apply to any context (though we focus on the setting of remote work). Next, we move on to the particular challenges and requirements that emerge when you’re working from home.

We then help you adapt your skills to these challenges by looking at meeting tactics that mitigate the problems of Zoom fatigue, a reading system that harnesses the rhythms of the work-from-home day, and writing techniques that tap the power of online collaboration with remote colleagues.

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