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What has work been? What is work now? What could work look like? Control to Integration | Telling to Learning | Competing to Cooperating | Silos to Coalescence Every time I talk to Stelio Verzera - I feel energized, I learn something new, my mid opens to new ideas and challenges. Stelio's view of the world of work is expressed differently. He is not alone in looking at things from a systemic, ecoistic point of view, but the way he is bringing this into the world is unique. This conversation takes us to many places – from anti-fragility to surfing emergence and rediscovering ourselves. We look at technology, polycentricity and sense-making. We talk about the future, how the world of work will move from control to integration, from telling to learning, from competing to cooperating, from silos to coalescence across boundaries. Stelio Verzera is an Evolution Coach and the Co-Founder of Cocoon Pro. Cocoon Pro Cocoon Pro is a last-generation company devoted to fostering real value creation in the world-wide work ecosystem. It's been designed to be effective, emergent, open and adaptive in the journey of generating and scaling-up mastery. Her customers are organizations longing for deep evolution in order to stay relevant, resilient and resonant. Here you can find out more about: - Stelio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiver/ - Cocoon Pro: -https://cocoon-pro.com/ -https://medium.com/mozaic-stories/a-story-you-need-to-know-299a72d63f5 - Care4Live: https://care4.live/ - Ohana Meet-up: ❤️Help spread education for a resilient future! ❤️ Support the Skills for Mars podcast here: ➜www.youtube.com/skillsformars (subscribe for free) ➜www.podhero.com (subscription fees are shared with content creators) ➜www.patreon.com/skillsformars (donations) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars www.skillsformars.com Support this podcast

I know a lot of people who had to #reskill and carve out new career pathways for themselves. It is very difficult! When the education is there, employers are not. When the employers are willing, governmental support is missing. We have tons of amazing free online education. But it is not recognized by businesses. There are incredible people who took the leap, learned something totally new. They need work experience to get started, but an internship is only for “fresh” graduates. And while we are complaining about talent shortages, we are not really willing to employ someone who has so drastically changed their career. Let someone else try first… Today's podcast is about #reskilling, #education and #meaningfulcareers. My guests are two amazing people who are passionate about changing the world of work. They provide education, identify career pathways and support the transition of those who are experiencing major career shifts: ➔Jamie Albers, the co-founder of Mento (https://www.mento.co/about) ➔David Timis, the Global Communications Leader at Generation (https://www.generation.org/) To get in touch with them: - Jamie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiealbers/ - David: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidtimis/ We will talk about: ➔ The impact this past one and a half year has had on the job market ➔ The harsh realities of career transitioning for the re-skilled ➔ Transforming education to allow for multiple and diverse pathways throughout our lives ➔ The 4Cs needed to succeed in the world of work ❤️Help spread education for a resilient future!❤️ Support the Skills for Mars podcast here: ➜www.youtube.com/skillsformars​ (subscribe for free) ➜www.podhero.com (subscription fees are shared with content creators) ➜www.patreon.com/skillsformars​ (donations) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars www.skillsformars.com Support this podcast

➔ Can you envision "Zero Trauma Transformation" for your organization? ➔ How and when would you engage in deep change, without the need to do so? ➔ Once successful, how do you avoid the "Resilience Paradox"? My guest today is Liisa Välikangas, professor of Innovation Management & Leadership at the Technical University of Denmark. This time, our resilience quest, is to learn to run before the lion starts chasing us and to do so with as little pain as possible. The journey is not predefined and there is no magic wand. So, we will talk about - Rehearsal for change - Building cognitive flexibility - Scenarios and experimentation - Courage and serendipity - Jesters, the Resilience Paradox, and the ideal “Zero Trauma Transformation” are also part of the discussion. Through this podcast, we are bringing Resilience Research and Practice closer to you. If you enjoy the content - don't forget to LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and share your thoughts in the comment section below. Your views and your feedback are extremely important to the development of the podcast. Enjoy our conversation! Support this podcast

Today we will see the world of work through the eyes of the world's first industrial philosopher– Cristina di Giacomo. Following a successful corporate career, Cristina spent over 10 years studying the ideas and practices of the greatest thinkers. She has bottled up the magic of their philosophy and is enabling leaders to find and use their wisdom in the world of work. We will talk about: ➜ Wisdom as the ultimate skill that will drive resilient careers ➜ The 4-step process of achieving wisdom ➜ Various practices of wisdom ➜ Her book – WiseUp at work! You can find Cristina here: https://cristinadigiacomo.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristinadigiacomo/ And her book: https://cristinadigiacomo.com/wiseupatwork ❤️Help spread education for a resilient future!❤️ Support the Skills for Mars podcast here: ➜www.youtube.com/skillsformars​ (free) ➜www.podhero.com (subscription fees are shared with content creators) ➜www.patreon.com/skillsformars​ (donations) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars www.skillsformars.com Support this podcast

➜ Is there more to Autonomous Vehicles than a transportation solution? ➜ How does this innovation affect Systemic, Societal Change? ➜ And what does resilience have to do with all this? Roland Kupers is going to take us on a captivating journey of climate change, complex systems and their resilience. Roland Kupers is a theoretical physicist by university training and he has spent the first 20+ years of his career working for major corporations. Since 2011, he is acting as an advisor for Cities, NGOs, Think Tanks, Corporations and Government on topics related to Energy Transition, Complexity and Resilience He has published widely, including in HBR, on Project Syndicate and co-authored: ➜The Essence of Scenarios – Learning from the Shell Experience (with A. Wilkinson – Amsterdam 2014) ➜Complexity and the Art of Public Policy (with D. Colander – Princeton 2014) ➜A Climate Policy Revolution (Harvard 2020) Roland was a co-author of a report commissioned by the German Government on a New Growth Path for Europe. In 2013 he was the Director for the inception phase of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. For those who are interested in contacting Roland: - https://www.rolandkupers.com/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/roland-kupers-3575734/ Here is a direct link to Roland's latest book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674972124 ❤️Help spread education for a resilient future!❤️ Support the Skills for Mars podcast here: ➜www.youtube.com/skillsformars​ (free) ➜www.podhero.com (subscription fees are shared with content creators) ➜www.patreon.com/skillsformars​ (donations) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars www.skillsformars.com Support this podcast

We have chosen HYBRID as the new way of work. HYBRID is challenging and faces the risk of inheriting the worst of the two worlds of work. HYBRID opens up concerns about Power - Fairness - Trust - Performance. Can we address them? Mark Mortensen (INSEAD) is joining me today, for a 2nd round of discussions, exactly 12 months after we have recorded together an episode of the Making Remote Work series. We go through the research that has been conducted this past year and talk about hybridity – power and fairness, trust, performance and adaptation. Most importantly, Mark will share his insights and tips so that the hybrid world we are walking towards will be successful for both individuals and organizations For those who want to access Mark's latest publications: ➔ https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/are-your-team-members-lonely/ ➔ https://knowledge.insead.edu/leadership-organisations/teams-in-evolution-and-revolution-after-the-pandemic-15876 ➔ https://hbr.org/2021/02/making-the-hybrid-workplace-fair ➔ https://hbr.org/2021/02/wfh-is-corroding-our-trust-in-each-other Mark Mortensen is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD. His area of expertise is organisational collaboration, with an emphasis on two increasingly prevalent ways of organising that do not fit traditional models of team dynamics: globally distributed (virtual) and project-based work. Mark's research has been recognised by the academic community through awards including the William H. Newman Award, Organisational Behaviour Division Best Dissertation-Based Paper Award, and Runner-up OCIS Division Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management; and the Best Paper Award Finalist nomination by the Interdisciplinary Network of Groups Researchers. His research has been published in top peer-reviewed academic journals including the Organization Science, Management Science, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behaviour, and International Journal of Conflict Management. His works has been featured in multiple edited volumes, practitioner journals such as the MIT-Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review Online, and IESE Insight; and in media outlets including the Economist, The Boston Globe, and The Globe and Mail. ❤️Help spread education for a resilient future!❤️ Support the Skills for Mars podcast here: ➜www.youtube.com/skillsformars​ (free) ➜www.podhero.com (subscription fees are shared with content creators) ➜www.patreon.com/skillsformars​ (donations) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars www.skillsformars.com Support this podcast

➜Are there facets to Organizational Resilience? ➜Can we learn how to proactively adapt to sudden changes? The answer is YES! And there is a Framework, a Tool and a Methodology to do so! My guest on this episode is Heidi Askin, the Director of Culture and Transformation at Bel, an INSEAD EMBA graduate and a passionate of Resilience and Complexity Science. Heidi set out to study Organization Resilience a few years ago and her research led to: ✔️ A framework of Organizational Resilience ✔️ A description of the 8 axes on which Organizational Resilience can be built (inclusive of strategic, operational, social and human components) ✔️ The concrete factors that can be used to assess the current level of resilience All of these, including a case study, will be discussed in the episode. We hope this will provide a useful, practical tool to start building your Organizational Resilience today! For those interested in reaching out to Heid: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidi-konzen-askin-5453233/ ❤️Help spread education for a resilient future!❤️ Support the Skills for Mars podcast here: ➜www.youtube.com/skillsformars​ (free) ➜www.podhero.com (subscription fees are shared with content creators) ➜www.patreon.com/skillsformars​ (donations) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars www.skillsformars.com Support this podcast

LET'S START A CONVERSATION! I am looking forward to your comments! - What is the change that you would like to see in the world? - What would you do make this change happen? For this episode, my guest is one of the though leaders on the topic of Social Impact - Samira Khan.

Ordinary people achieving the extraordinary! This is an inspiring story showing how curiosity can be the spark for systemic educational transformation. Agastya International Foundation has started an educational movement in India driven by a "simple" mission - educating children by fuelling their curiosity and creativity. In 2020, through extreme conditions, they not only managed to reach the 15 million children in remote villages, but they managed to bring education to a different level. Seemingly ordinary people, a great deal of personal initiative, passion for their calling, care, friendship and true leadership - have transformed an organization into a movement. This is a must watch episode of the Building Resilience series hosting: - Ramji Raghavan - Founder and Chairman of Agastya International Foundation - Phanish Puranam - Professor of Strategy and Organizational Design at INSEAD To work with and learn more about Agastya International Foundation: - https://www.agastya.org/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramji-raghavan-26736b3/ ❤️Help spread education for a resilient future!❤️ Support the Skills for Mars podcast here: ➜www.youtube.com/skillsformars​ (free) ➜www.podhero.com (subscription fees are shared with content creators) ➜www.patreon.com/skillsformars​ (donations) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars www.skillsformars.com Support this podcast

Today we are looking through the lenses of sociology and psychology to answer two questions: 1. How can organizational culture act as a shock absorber & help companies rebound from adversities? 2. What makes individuals resilient? Together with Huggy Rao, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at Stanford Graduate School of Business, we will: ✅ Discuss how "cultural protections" enable people and organizations respond to shocks ✅ Provide examples on how to activate the "best self" in each individual and how this will lead to increased resilience ✅ Emphasize the need to move from "a room called fear" to a "room called hope" for both individuals and organizations ✅ Moving away from Planning towards building the CARE-SHARE-DARE muscle in Organizations

Half of the world today still does not have access to the internet! Understanding and using some of the latest technologies is out of their reach. Inclusive, transparent, and just AI solutions cannot be achieved without their contribution. My guest today is Elena Ardelean, a social change maker, the founder of AI for Development Agency. AI for Development Agency (AI4DA.com) is a Global NGO whose mission is to advance AI literacy to the unconnected and most vulnerable communities globally. We will dive deep into AI education, what AIDA does to support; the role NGOs, businesses, and governments play in enabling tech awareness for everyone. For those who want to reach out to Elena and work with AI4DA.com:

Confinement. Isolation. Mental Fatigue. We feel like rebelling the system. Even conspiracy theories seem tempting. At the end of last year, I had the great opportunity to talk to Marc Jurblum – a psychiatrist and an expert in the “Psychology of Isolated Environments”. His passion is to study and find solutions to the exact problems we are all facing today. Join us today for a discussion on Mental Health in Confined spaces. We will discuss:

The Future is Now. How ready are we to travel to, set base, and inhabit a new planet? Rocket Boosters, Reusable Orbital Vehicles, Dragon, Perseverance & Curiosity. 2020 has been a year of intense discovery, innovation, and achievement in space travel. Technology seems to be getting close. Are we prepared? Who will be the people chosen to take on this amazing feat of strength? How are we training to face the long journey to the Red Planet? Mounir Alafrangy, NASA Analog Astronaut and Space Exploration Program Lead at MOSAIC ATM, and I have been chatting along the lines of our favorite subject – space travel. The focus is on analog missions and their contribution to learning more about us, the humans.

We keep hearing the phrase: “this is the new normal” and the subsequent question – is your organization ready to face it? ⛳️But what is this new normal and what should we be prepared for? ⛳️What is the mindset that will make us resilient in this new world of unprecedented disruptions? ⛳️How should we deal with the increasing complexity of your organization and its environment? ⛳️How do we motivate our people to fight multiple, consecutive, and even overlapping fights at our side? Today, my guest is Costas Markides, the Chair of Strategic Leadership at London Business School Costas is recognized as one of the world's foremost experts on strategy and innovation. His work explores how companies can create a culture of continuous innovation and the role that individual managers play in making a company more innovative. His forthcoming book – Organizing for the New Normal – explores the question: “How do you prepare the organization to respond to continuous and overlapping disruptions or one disruption after another in a short period of time?” Welcome to a new episode of Building Resilience the podcast that hosts some of the most brilliant minds who have studied resilience or have tremendous experience in navigating ever-changing waters. Support the Skills for Mars podcast? www.podhero.com www.skillsformars.com www.patreon.com/skillsformars www.youtube.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars Support this podcast

What happens when multiple shocks hit us? Have we reflected on 2020 and what have we learned? Have we identified the cracks in our systems? How can we enable ourselves to be better prepared for the next crisis? ⛳️Uncertainty and complexity are states of nature. ⛳️We will never have full knowledge. ⛳️There are no templates to tell us exactly what to do. ⛳️We will always make mistakes. By acknowledging the above, we allow ourselves to experiment, place early bets, fail fast, and try again. We will acquire the missing information. We will figure out where the holes are and will be able to think ahead. Today, my guests are Rajshree Agarwal and Constance Helfat. RAJSHREE AGARWAL is the Rudolph Lamone Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy and Director of the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets at the University of Maryland. Rajshree studies the evolution of industries, firms, and individual careers, as fostered by the twin engines of innovation and enterprise. Rajshree's scholarship uses an interdisciplinary lens to provide insights on strategic innovation for new venture creation and for firm renewal. She routinely publishes in leading journals in strategy and entrepreneurship. An author of more than 60 studies, her research has been cited more than 10,000 times, received numerous best paper awards, and funded by grants from various foundations, including the Kauffman Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. She is currently the co-editor of the Strategic Management Journal and has previously served in co-editor and senior editor roles at Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and Organization Science respectively. Rajshree is a senior contributor at Forbes, providing insights for leading purposeful lives, strategy, and innovation. She has been featured in major media outlets including the Washington Post, USA Today, Time, and the Baltimore Sun, and has appeared in several video interviews and podcasts. Her op-eds have had over 100,000 reads, and her conversation with David Rubin on “The Rubin Report” drew approximately 25,000 views. Agarwal's ability to put complex thoughts into clear terms led one media outlet to describe her as “an economist who makes things understandable.” CONSTANCE HELFAT is the J. Brian Quinn Professor in Technology and Strategy and Senior Associate Dean for Research Innovation at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Professor Helfat's research focuses on strategic change, with an emphasis on firm capabilities, technological innovation, and top executives. She has published widely in leading academic journals and has written and edited three academic books. Professor Helfat is a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society, received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management, is a Foundations Scholar of the Knowledge and Innovation Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society, and was awarded the Viipuri Prize for outstanding achievements in strategy research and an honorary doctorate from the Lappeenranta University of Technology. She is currently a co-editor of the Strategic Management Journal and has served in editorial roles at Management Science and Organization Science. She also serves on the editorial boards of other academic journals. Welcome to a new episode of Building Resilience the podcast that hosts some of the most brilliant minds who have studied resilience or have tremendous experience in navigating ever-changing waters. Support the Skills for Mars podcast? www.podhero.com www.skillsformars.com www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars Support this podcast

Purpose-driven organizations thrive! Purpose & culture are anchors. They provide a stable platform from which organizations can drive strategic and structural change and successfully face adversities. ⛳️ What is Organizational Resilience? ⛳️ What are thriving organizations doing differently? ⛳️ How can we activate purpose in organizations? ⛳️ What are the enables of resilience? ⛳️ How do we connect individual and organizational purpose and resilience? ⛳️ Thriving through the 2020 crisis ⛳️ Courage as an enable of resilience. These are all questions that Professor Ranjay Gulati will answer in the 1st episode of the new Building Resilience series. Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He is an expert on leadership, strategy, and organizational issues in firms. Professor Gulati was ranked as one of the top ten most cited scholars in Economics and Business over a decade by ISI-Incite. The Economist, Financial Times, and The Economist Intelligence Unit have listed him as among the top handful of business school scholars whose work is most relevant to management practice. He has been a Harvard MacArthur Fellow and a Sloan Foundation Fellow. His research has been published in leading journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Harvard Business Review, American Journal of Sociology, Strategic Management Journal, Sloan Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, and Organization Science. He has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, strategy + business, and the Financial Times. Professor Gulati sits on the editorial board of several leading journals and was a co-editor of a special issue of the Strategic Management Journal on Alliances and Strategic Networks in 2000 and another special issue on Organizational Architecture that appeared in 2012. He also guest-edited a special issue of the Academy of Management Journal on Relational Pluralism in 2014. Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: www.podhero.com www.skillsformars.com www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars Support this podcast

It is too late for me to change my career! Very few succeed in doing this. I could never do it! Indeed, few succeed because only a few try and put in the effort. Changing careers when we are 30-40-50 is not an easy responsibility. Mortgages, children, sick parents, economic uncertainty – will keep someone in a job even if it makes them feel miserable. Adriana Kosovska, the founder of the Zero to Dream Job project, did not even know there is such a thing as “career coaching” when she switched careers. Now she helps people identify their calling so they can stop struggling with a job they do not love. - Are you wondering what a Dream Job feels like? - Should your passion become your career? - How to best time your career change? - Can you make the change successfully even at 40? How about 50? - How do you navigate the uncertain waters and arrive at your desired destination? We hope the conversation will ignite the desire for change in you. It is never too late to find your calling and do what you have always dreamt of! I encourage you to get in touch with Adriana and find out more about the Zero to Dream Job project: - http://zerotodreamjob.com/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriana-kosovska-people-manager-dream-job-coach-463b4253/ If you are interested in the Future of Work - consider subscribing to Skills for Mars: https://bit.ly/3cA2UF1. Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home Support this podcast

#startingremote #skillsformars #futureofwork STARTING REMOTE is a new Skills for Mars series. It is a follow-up to Making Remote Work and it aims to bring forward insights and tools that will help companies and teams who are now starting their remote adventure. It also aims to collect unanswered questions about remote work and put these in front of researchers so they can focus their studies to support those going through the remote journey. In this 1st episode, I have a great pleasure to host Sid Pandiya, the co-founder of Sike Insights (https://sikeinsights.com/). Their product, Kona, is a tool that is already helping hundreds of managers build a better understanding of their teams (who they are, how they feel, how they can be motivated), adapt their leadership and communication styles, grow motivation and engagement levels. - You will see a demo of Kona - Hear from Sid how Kona works in practice - Understand the research that the tool is built on and how the algorithms are checked for accuracy - Get an insight into the Sike Insight business model and their future plans - Get to know Sid personally and professionally If you are interested in the Future of Work - subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home Support this podcast

Are you ready to work remotely? RemotAbility. Assess, benchmark, and manage remote workplaces from one central hub. This week, on Starting Remote, we talk with Deepak Selvaratnam about RemotAbility, a tool built to help organizations and individuals understand if they are ready to enter the world of remote work. It is a legally aligned assessment, checklist & benchmark that can be easily turned into a series of action items. Deepak is the founder and co-developer of Snapshotz & RemotAbility (https://www.cxsnapshotz.com/s/remotability) Snapshotz is an online assessment and benchmarking tool for Contact Centres. Launched in 2009 Snapshotz is being employed by close to 3000 contact centers across Australasia, Africa, the Middle East, North America, Latin America, and China. RemotAbility is built on the Snapshotz platform and experience. A tool supporting organizations to understand their readiness for moving remotely Besides RemotAbility, Deepak is sharing with us: - His experience in working with more than 2800 contact centers around the world - The challenges these contact centers are facing in moving to remote work - Mental Health & Productivity when remote We hope this will be a useful tool for those of you who are looking to understand if you are able to move work remotely. Let us know your thoughts in the comments below. To find out more about Deepak and to get in touch with him: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepak-selvaratnam-b8182a11/ STARTING REMOTE is a new Skills for Mars series. It is a follow-up to Making Remote Work, and it aims to bring forward insights and tools that will help companies and teams who are now starting their remote adventure. It also aims to collect unanswered questions about remote work and put them in front of researchers to focus their studies on supporting those going through the remote journey. If you are interested in the Future of Work - subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars Support this podcast

We all love stories! When we read a good story, we get drawn to it and become part of the character gang – we take sides and have opinions. Our brains release happiness chemicals that keep us craving more. Evolution has primed us for stories. We are inveterate producers and consumers of stories.

Happy Birthday SKILLS FOR MARS Podcast! I am excited to celebrate the 1 Year Anniversary with you – my amazing guests, listeners, and supporters! It has been quite a ride from the 1st episode to the 67th. The learning is steep but very rewarding. Exactly one year ago, my friend and mentor, Alison Grieve, started this journey with me. We spoke about change agility and learning agility - subjects very dear to our hearts. Today, on the anniversary episode, we speak about Team Resilience. Alison Grieve is the co-founder of Management Dynamics (https://www.management-dynamics.com/) and she is an expert in skills assessment and development, team dynamics, immunity to change coaching. You can reach out to her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisongrieve/ If you are interested in the Future of Work - subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home Support this podcast

Getting noticed when we are working remotely is harder than in traditional set-ups. Research has shown that getting the "required" visibility can easily lead to burnout. Ioana Cristea has researched this topic in detail, and the findings are alarming! To make themselves visible, employees in distributed environments mainly revert to online meetings. Their calendars are full to the point that one can wonder - When do they have time to eat? Do they have time for their families or some slack time for themselves? When does work get done? In this episode, we discuss this "virtual rat race" and what can be done differently - at organizational and individual levels. Ioana Cristea conducted this research over a period of 7 years. You can find the full research papers here: https://badm.au.dk/fileadmin/Business_Administration/PhD/Thesis_Ioana_Cristea.pdf. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/orsc.2018.1265 If you want to get in touch with Ioana: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ioanaccristea/. STARTING REMOTE is a new Skills for Mars series. It is a follow-up to Making Remote Work, and it aims to bring forward insights and tools that will help companies and teams who are now starting their remote adventure. It also aims to collect unanswered questions about remote work and put them in front of researchers to focus their studies on supporting those going through the remote journey. If you are interested in the Future of Work - subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home #workingremote #remotehow #skillsformars Support this podcast

Is your company fully prepared to work remotely? Do your leaders have the right skills to manage remotely? REMOTE HOW is building tools, training, and communities to enable remote work for companies and individuals. In this episode, I am hosting Iwo Szapar, the co-founder of Remote How (https://remote-how.com/). We talk about: - how the ongoing discussions about remote work are contributing to a better work environment, overall - remote-first vs. hybrid and how we can identify and address the multiple potential issues of the hybrid set-up (which seems to be preferred by most organizations) - remote-work thought leadership - understanding the readiness of an organization to move remotely and how the Remote-How audit can help - building the right capabilities for remote work - using communities to debate ideas, share best practices, find solutions to burning remote issues - Remote How (history, what it brings to the table, how is it different) If you would like to connect with Iwo, you can do so via the Remote How website or via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iwoszapar/. STARTING REMOTE is a new Skills for Mars series. It is a follow-up to Making Remote Work, and it aims to bring forward insights and tools that will help companies and teams who are now starting their remote adventure. It also aims to collect unanswered questions about remote work and put them in front of researchers to focus their studies on supporting those going through the remote journey. If you are interested in the Future of Work - subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home #workingremote #remotehow #skillsformars Support this podcast

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-Are you looking for a side hustle that can turn into a business and even a career? -Do you think you would fancy writing, even if now, your skills might not be at their best? -Is content creation something you would like to learn? (Course Coupon included below) In this episode, I am hosting Jon Brosio, the founder of Tribe Loyal (https://tribeloyal.com/). Jon found himself without a job early in 2017. He started writing immediately and after 3 years of hard work he managed to turn online content creation into a business. He is now teaching others how to start and succeed in this journey. What I really love about Jon is that he is down to earth and does not promote outcomes that are impossible to achieve (e.g. how to make 100.000 USD in one month of blogging), but rather helps you visualize the path you need to take to become successful, letting you know that, like any other business or career, this will take time, effort, dedication, consistency, discipline. We talk about: ✔️Jon Brosio - who he is and how he started ✔️Blogging vs Article Writing vs News Reporting ✔️Blogging as a business and career ✔️Where should you start with blogging? ✔️How to pick a niche & decide on blogging topics ✔️Quora vs Medium ✔️AI and online content creation ✔️The future of blogging If you are interested in learning how to start blogging and making money online, you can access Jon's Maser Course here: https://tribeloyal.com/blogging-course/. Use this coupon code to get a one-time MAJOR DISCOUNT: SKILLSFORMARS200 If you are interested in the Future of Work - subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home Support this podcast

In this STARTING REMOTE episode, I am hosting Andrew Blain, the Founder of remote:af and Elabor8. Andrew and his team are using their long-term experience in decision-making and agile set-ups to support the companies now considering moving remotely. They have built a modular framework and a library of tools so teams, departments, and organizations can reflect on the transformation and design the right action steps. They are unique on the market, and the toolkit they have created is very comprehensive. We cover: ✔️ The Remote Agility Framework (remote:af) – why, what and how ✔️ How remote:af was started and how they are different on the remote market ✔️ How the framework and toolkit can be used by those considering the move to remote ✔️ The dynamic nature of the remote:af tools ✔️ Successful client implementation cases ✔️ Future developments To find out more about remote:af, elabor8, and Andrew Blain: - https://www.remoteaf.co/ - https://elabor8.com.au/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjamesblain/ To get in touch with Andrew: andrew.blain@remoteaf.co STARTING REMOTE is a new Skills for Mars series. It is a follow-up to Making Remote Work, and it aims to bring forward insights and tools that will help companies and teams who are now starting their remote adventure. It also aims to collect unanswered questions about remote work and put them in front of researchers to focus their studies on supporting those going through the remote journey. If you are interested in the Future of Work - subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home #workingremote #remotenotadrift #skillsformars Support this podcast

In this episode, I am hosting the amazing Meredith Turney. Meredith has a lifetime experience of learning and working remotely, helping leaders grow with a conscious mindset. We discuss - leadership when remote - building and enabling multicultural teams - burnout when remote and how to avoid it - the areas where remote work needs focus and intelligent design so it does not fail - future of work We, of course, put a conscious leadership spin to the discussion :) If you want to find out more about Meredith and reach out to her: - https://www.meredithturney.com/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithturney/ I am subscribed to her newsletter and get great value out of it. Here is the link so you can check it out: https://meredithturney.substack.com/ STARTING REMOTE is a new Skills for Mars series. It is a follow-up to Making Remote Work and it aims to bring forward insights and tools that will help companies and teams who are now starting their remote adventure. It also aims to collect unanswered questions about remote work and put these in front of researchers so they can focus their studies to support those going through the remote journey. If you are interested in the Future of Work - subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home #workingremote #leadingremote #skillsformars Support this podcast

Rodica loves change, constant change, up to the point that she is taking on mind and body challenging endeavors to prove herself that she can learn and do anything she puts her mind to. In this episode of Transitions, we talk about her professional and also her personal journey of change. She constantly breaks out of her comfort zone, refuses to settle, and is looking for new ways to improve. If you want to find out more about Rodica and reach out to her: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodicafarcas/ TRANSITIONS is about transformation and self-reinvention. It tells the stories of people that have made incredible professional and life changes. The ability to change is one of the competencies required for the future of work. My hope is that these discussions will motivate you to forge your own, unique journey, no matter the difficulty. The difference should be that you will know first-hand what to expect and will have higher chances of success because you can prepare. If you are interested in the Career Change - consider subscribing to Skills for Mars: https://bit.ly/3cA2UF1 Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home Support this podcast

In this episode, I am hosting Stelio Verzera, the founder of Cocoon Projects - a company that is simply different. For the past 10 years, Stelio experimented and succeeded with a totally new type of organization, one that anyone can join (yes, there is no selection process carried out by Cocoon Pro, just one carried out by the future collaborator), that promotes full transparency, trust and incentivizes the right outcomes. Besides Cocoon and the LiquidO Framework, we also touch on the current state of organizations, the effects of the pandemic, the future of organizations, and his latest project - Care4Live I hope you enjoy our discussion. Please leave us comments/ questions/ suggestions :) If you want to find out more about: - Stelio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiver/ - Cocoon Pro: -https://cocoon-pro.com/ -https://medium.com/mozaic-stories/a-story-you-need-to-know-299a72d63f5 - Care4Live: https://care4.live/ If you are interested in the Future of Work - subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home Support this podcast

#covid19 #workpractices #workplace COVID-19 has disrupted work and organizations across the globe. During the pandemic, 29 researchers from around the world have joined forces to review prior literature - rooted mainly in work and organizational psychology - and tried to make sense of the implications of Covid-19 for employees, teams, and organizations .(https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2020-58612-001.pdf) They focused on: ✔️ emergent changes in work practices (e.g., working from home, virtual teamwork) ✔️ emergent changes for workers (e.g., social distancing, stress, and unemployment) ✔️ potential moderating factors (demographic characteristics, individual differences, and organizational norms) given the likelihood that COVID-19 will generate disparate effects. This broad-scope overview provides an integrative approach for considering the implications of COVID-19 for work, workers, and organizations while also identifying issues for future research and insights to inform solutions. In this episode, I am hosting Mark van Vugt, Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Jay Narayanan, Associate Professor Management & Organizations at the National University of Singapore. We discussed: ✔️ the literature that was reviewed and the process ✔️ the intended audience of this review article ✔️ the lessons and warnings of the past ✔️ the main effects of the current Covid-19 pandemic on the workplace ✔️ the disproportionate impact this pandemic has on individuals ✔️ the key takeaways for organizations and employees ✔️ the unanswered questions that require further research ✔️ how organizations could support academia to conduct this research and bring back actionable insights If you want to get in touch with Mark van Vugt, Jay Narayanan or Kevin Kniffin for research or further questions, you can reach out here: - Mark van Vugt: mark m.van.vugt@vu.nl - Jay Narayanan: jayanth.narayanan@nus.edu.sg - Kevin Kniffin: kmk276@cornell.edu To access the full-text article: https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2020-58612-001.pdf If you are interested in the Future of Work - subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home Support this podcast

#startingremote #skillsformars #futureofwork STARTING REMOTE is a new Skills for Mars series. It is a follow-up to Making Remote Work and it aims to bring forward insights and tools that will help companies and teams who are now starting their remote adventure. It also aims to collect unanswered questions about remote work and put these in front of researchers so they can focus their studies to support those going through the remote journey. In this 1st episode, I have a great pleasure to host Sid Pandiya, the co-founder of Sike Insights (https://sikeinsights.com/). Their product, Kona, is a tool that is already helping hundreds of managers build a better understanding of their teams (who they are, how they feel, how they can be motivated), adapt their leadership and communication styles, grow motivation and engagement levels. - You will see a demo of Kona - Hear from Sid how Kona works in practice - Understand the research that the tool is built on and how the algorithms are checked for accuracy - Get an insight into the Sike Insight business model and their future plans - Get to know Sid personally and professionally If you are interested in the Future of Work - subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home Support this podcast

I know Rory from Talent Tech Labs (https://talenttechlabs.com/). He was diligently searching for Talent Acquisition technology that could make the lives of candidates, recruiters and hiring managers better. For 3 years he has seen the industry grow, develop new solutions, some that made it, some that failed. There is no one better to discuss Talent Acquisition technology with! Rory O'Doherty is the founder of Olas.io (www.olas.io), an Education Through Experience platform that aims to empower users with realistic insights into the digital career of their choice, equip them with the skills to succeed, and connect them to opportunities. If you want to get in touch with Rory: reach out via email (rory@olas.io) or his LinkedIn page (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rory-o-doherty/) Here is what we touch on in this episode of the Skills for Mars podcast: - TIMESTAMPS - 00:00:00 – Start 00:01:39 – Rory O'Doherty introduction 00:04:20 – Olas.io, a new way of building the work experience and career you want 00:07:57 – How many jobs should you have? Why one career for life is a thing of the past 00:11:15 – Becoming a self-learner with Olas.io 00:14:55 – Building experience through focused tasks designed by potential employers 00:17:00 – Olas.io business model 00:19:57 – Olas.io = education through experience 00:22:49 – Talent Acquisition and the fatigue driven by technology 00:24:17 – The effects of the pandemic on the Talent Acquisition tech market 00:25:42 – Where does Talent Acquisition technology fail? 00:29:07 – How do Talent Acquisition leaders decide on technology? 00:32:02 – Can technology replace the Recruiter and do a better job at hiring? 00:34:12 – AI in Talent Acquisition – a hype? 00:39:30 – The way forward for Talent Acquisition 00:44:47 – The complexity of a Recruiter's job 00:52:15 – How to choose trustworthy Talent Acquisition technology? 00:56:50 – The future of Talent Acquisition technology If you are interested in the Future of Work - subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home Support this podcast

#organizationaldesign #enterprisedesign #teamtopologies Covid-19 has forced organizations to rethink how work is carried out. In this episode, we discuss the organizational issues surfaced by the pandemic and then move on to more practical advice on organizational (re)design that supports working remotely in all its forms. We touch on the learnings that organizations should embrace from the ad-hoc communities that were formed in this period, innovation and transformation when remote, organizational purpose vs values vs culture, and the successful organization of the future. My guests are distinguished Organizational and Enterprise Design practitioners: Naomi Stanford, Matthew Skelton, and Milan Guenther. https://www.linkedin.com/in/naomi-stanford-54373b2/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewskelton/?originalSubdomain=uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/milanguenther/ Dr. Naomi Stanford is an organization design practitioner, teacher, and author. She is the author of six books: Organization Design: The Practitioner's Guide, Organization Design: Engaging with Change, Organization Design, the Collaborative Approach, The Economist Guide to Organisation Design, Corporate Culture: Getting it Right (also an Economist publication) and Organizational Health: an integrated approach to building optimum performance. Naomi also writes articles, speaks at conferences, and tweets regularly on organization design: https://naomistanford.com/ Matthew Skelton helps organizations to be more effective at building and running software systems, with a focus on fast flow and operational excellence. He provides consulting, training, and writing on digital technology strategy & engineering practices to organizations around the world. Co-author of the acclaimed book Team Topologies (IT Revolution, 2019), Matthew Skelton has been building, deploying, and operating commercial software systems since 1998. Head of Consulting at Conflux, he specializes in organization dynamics, Continuous Delivery, and operability for software in manufacturing, e-commerce, and online services, including cloud, IoT, and embedded software: https://confluxdigital.net/ Milan Guenther is a partner at Enterprise Design Associates, a global curated network of practitioners, where he works with organizations of all shapes and sizes on innovation and transformation. He wrote Intersection, a book introducing the Enterprise Design Approach for systemic and holistic design in complex enterprises. Milan is one of the organizers behind the INTERSECTION Conference series, and worked extensively with Design Sprints to achieve significant impact with limited time and resources, and was among the first Google-certified Design Sprint Masters. He is teaching Enterprise Design as part of a Master's Program in Digital Innovation and Transformation at SciencesPo Paris: https://www.enterprisedesign.io/ MAKING REMOTE WORK - is a limited series led by the ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN COMMUNITY and hosted by SKILLS FOR MARS. It is a public service video-podcast in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will host 20+ researchers and practitioners in the field of distributed work. They will share their insights and knowledge to support companies and employees who are making this transition. If you are interested in the Future of Work - consider subscribing to Skills for Mars: https://bit.ly/3cA2UF1 Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars - TIMESTAMPS - 00:00:00 – Podcast start 00:01:20 – Introductions 00:06:18 – Organizational issues surfaced by Covid-19 00:15:00 – Organizational design for remote work 00:26:30 – Purpose vs Values vs Culture 00:29:54 – Organizational (re)design for companies moving remote 00:37:00 – Innovation & transformation by... Support this podcast

In this episode of Making Remote Work we discuss the benefits of Mindfulness when working remotely, the importance of this practice/state on keeping a balance between work and family in testing times. My guests are Tammy Allen of the University of South Florida and Jay Narayanan of the National University of Singapore. Tammy D. Allen is a distinguished university professor within the department of psychology. Her research is focused on individual, organizational, and societal factors that relate to worker career development and wellbeing, with a particular interest in the intersection between work and family. She uses multiple methods and tools in her research, which has been cited over 30,000 times and has received multiple awards. Dr. Allen has also co-edited and co-authored multiple books. She has been a visiting scholar and guest speaker at universities and organizations across the world. Dr. Allen was the 2018-2019 President of the Society for Occupational Health Psychology and is a past president of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science. ----------------------------------------------------- Jayanth (Jay) Narayanan is an Associate Professor of Management & Organization at the National University of Singapore. He has a PhD from the London Business School. Prior to his PhD from London Business School, Jay was an entrepreneur who founded India's largest assessment company, Merittrac. His studies the influence of mindfulness at work, negotiation and decision making. His work has been published in the top outlets in the field such as Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and Academy of Management Review. He is also on the editorial board of a number of journals in the field. He has led the Negotiation & Influence program and the Emerging Leaders Program at NUS, programs that have consistently received top ratings. Jay has taught across the world to executives in a wide variety of industries ranging from a wide variety of people from industries such as telecom, law, financial services, consumer goods to name a few. He has also taught senior managers and leaders from a wide range of geographies across Asia and Europe. Jay has also won a number of teaching accolades and has been awarded the teaching excellence award at the National University of Singapore. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAKING REMOTE WORK - is a limited series led by the ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN COMMUNITY and hosted by SKILLS FOR MARS. It is a public service video-podcast in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will host 20+ researchers and practitioners in the field of distributed work. They will share their insights and knowledge to support companies and employees who are making this transition. If you are interested in the Future of Work - consider subscribing to Skills for Mars: https://bit.ly/3cA2UF1 Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars - TIMESTAMPS - 00:00:00 - Start 00:01:09 – Tammy Allen introduction 00:03:28 – Jayanth ‘Jay' Narayanan introduction 00:05:30 – Mindfulness & meditation – what they are and what they are not 00:08:55 – Mindfulness and flow 00:10:30 – Covid-19 effects on work-family balance 00:15:35 – Domestic violence during the pandemic 00:17:06 – Using mindfulness to avoid work-family conflict 00:25:28 – Mindfulness in the workplace 00:29:00 – The effects of mindful leaders on team performance 00:31:58 – increasing the prevalence of mindfulness in the workplace 00:34:58 – When mindfulness is harmful... Support this podcast

Sheryl L. Bishop, Ph.D. is an Emeritus Professor at the UTMB. As an internationally recognized behavioral researcher in extreme environments, for the last 25 years Dr. Bishop has investigated human performance and group dynamics in extreme, unusual environments, involving deep cavers, mountain climbers, desert survival groups, polar expeditions, Antarctic winter-over groups and various simulations of isolated, confined environments for space, including a number of missions at remote habitats (e.g., Mars Desert Research Station, Utah, and FMARS and the Mars Project on Devon Island, Canada). Dr. Bishop is a founding member, Board of Trustee member and Senior Editor for the Journal of the Society of Human Performance in Extreme Environments, Contributing Editor for Life Sciences for Habitation (formerly the Journal of Life Support and Biospheric Sciences) and Review Editor for the Journal of Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine among numerous others. MAKING REMOTE WORK - is a limited series led by the ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN COMMUNITY and hosted by SKILLS FOR MARS. It is a public service video-podcast in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will host 20+ researchers and practitioners in the field of distributed work. They will share their insights and knowledge to support companies and employees who are making this transition. If you are interested in the Future of Work - consider subscribing to Skills for Mars: https://bit.ly/3cA2UF1 Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars - TIMESTAMPS - 00:00:00 - Start 00:00:50 – Sheryl Bishop introduction 00:03:50 – Isolation & confinement during the Covid-19 pandemic 00:06:25 – How does a new lockdown affect us psychologically? 00:12:32 – Depression during Covid-19 00:17:14 – How to recognize the effects of isolation & confinement 00:20:12 – The long-term psychological effects of the pandemic 00:23:14 – Quick tips to deal with isolation & confinement 00:27:32 – Applying the research in extreme environments in organizations 00:30:20 – Building better “work from home” environments 00:35:48 – Work-family balance when working from home 00:43:04 – Building resilience for similar future situations 00:46:43 – Mindfulness & meditation to deal with stress 00:49:00 – Final thoughts Support this podcast

Working from space gives you a unique perspective on work, teams, leadership, and the future. In this episode of Making Remote Work, Luca Parmitano offers us a glimpse of how work is carried out remotely from space. We talk about communication, teamwork, leadership, autonomy, confinement, the opportunities that remote work could bring in the future. Luca Parmitano is an Italian engineer and astronaut in the European Astronaut Corps for the European Space Agency (ESA). He was selected as an ESA astronaut in May 2009. In February 2011, Luca was assigned as a flight engineer to Italian space agency ASI's first long-duration mission on the International Space Station. Luca spent 166 days in space, personally conducting over 20 experiments, and took part in two spacewalks and the docking of four spacecraft during his ‘Volare' mission. He landed safely back on Earth on 11 November 2013. Luca was launched to the International Space Station for his second mission on 20 July 2019 – the 50th anniversary of the first human lunar landing – and returned 6 February 2020. His 201-day mission saw him take on the role of Space Station commander for Expedition 61 – becoming the third European and first-ever Italian International Space Station commander. During Beyond, Luca supported more than 50 European experiments and 200 international experiments in space. Other highlights including performing the first ‘live DJ session' in Earth orbit, addressing world leaders at the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 25, and talking to Nobel Laureates about exoplanets and the chemistry of batteries. MAKING REMOTE WORK - is a limited series led by the ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN COMMUNITY and hosted by SKILLS FOR MARS. It is a public service video-podcast in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will host 20+ researchers and practitioners in the field of distributed work. They will share their insights and knowledge to support companies and employees who are making this transition. If you are interested in the Future of Work - consider subscribing to Skills for Mars: https://bit.ly/3cA2UF1 Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars -TIMESTAMPS - 00:00:00 – Start 00:00:45 – The importance of training & planning to successful remote working (CLIP) 00:04:26 – Coordinating remotely using voice-driven tools 00:05:51 – Dealing with ambiguity coming from various inputs 00:09:58 – Motivating & engaging a crew of different nationalities with different values and views 00:12:17 – Leading a team of great minds to solve the toughest issues in space 00:14:38 – Team conflict in confined space 00:17:27 – Maintaining psychological wellbeing in space 00:19:06 – Autonomy when working on the International Space Station 00:22:03 – Remote work as a driver of education in underserved communities 00:24:46 – Can Covid-19 create opportunities in rural areas through the increase in broadband communication? 00:27:10 – A view on global unrest and ecological change Support this podcast

Børge Obel is a professor at the Interdisciplinary Center for Organizational Architecture, Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark, and professor at EIASM, Brussels. He teaches graduate courses in organizational design and digital transformation. Børge holds a Ph.D. and a Dr. Oecon. from Aarhus University, Denmark. His research interests fall within strategy, management, and organizational design. Børge is the lead expert in EcoMerc on Strategic Organizational Diagnosis and Design. Børge Obel has published several books including Organizational Design: A Step-By-Step Approach, Cambridge University (jointly with Richard M. Burton and Geraldine DeSanctis), second edition 2011, and the third edition with Richard M. Burton and Dorthe Håkonsson. He has published numerous academic papers including papers in Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, ASQ and Management Science. He was the founding editor of Journal of Organization Design. He has served as an advisor to the Danish Government on e-infrastructure. He also serves on a number of company boards. - TIMESTAMPS - 00:00:00 – Podcast Start 00:01:07 – Borge Obel - Introduction 00:05:00 – Virtual vs Distributed vs Remote Work 00:11:10 – Is remote work here to stay? 00:14:40 – Organizational design for remote work 00:18:28 – Remote work and its effect on team coherence 00:21:35 – Opportunism and cheating when working remotely 00:24:35 – Are matrix or functional organizations suitable for remote work? 00:28:18 – Designing better remote organizations with the use of data 00:34:20 – Designing incentives for remote organizations 00:36:40 – Power and promotions when remote: “the virtual rat race” 00:39:57 – Insights on all-remote companies from an organizational design perspective 00:46:13 – Organizational design advice for companies moving or starting remote 00:49:38 – Future organizational design research areas that are driven by the Covid-19 pandemic 00:55:24 – Final thoughts on remote work MAKING REMOTE WORK - is a limited series led by the ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN COMMUNITY and hosted by SKILLS FOR MARS. It is a public service video-podcast in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will host 20+ researchers and practitioners in the field of distributed work. They will share their insights and knowledge to support companies and employees who are making this transition. If you are interested in the Future of Work - consider subscribing to Skills for Mars: https://bit.ly/3cA2UF1 Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars Support this podcast

#skillsformars #remotework #gitlab In this episode, I am hosting the GitLab People Group: - Julie Armendariz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-armendariz-sphr-lssgbc-37677b1/ - Nadia Vatalidis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadiavatalidis/ - Brittany Rohde: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittany-rohde-970964b2/ We touch on very practical topics related to managing more than 1300 people that work across +65 countries, all-remote: - Hiring - Productivity & Autonomy - Performance Management - Total Rewards - Values - Transparency - Leadership Development (CEO Shadow Program) We, of course, also touch on the GitLab Handbook. Here is a link to it for anyone interested in a deep dive on the above topics: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ MAKING REMOTE WORK - is a limited series led by the ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN COMMUNITY and hosted by SKILLS FOR MARS. It is a public service video-podcast in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will host 20+ researchers and practitioners in the field of distributed work. They will share their insights and knowledge to support companies and employees who are making this transition. If you are interested in the Future of Work - consider subscribing to Skills for Mars: https://bit.ly/3cA2UF1 Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home - TIMESTAMPS - 00:00:00 – Podcast Start 00:01:20 – What is the role of the People Function in GitLab? 00:02:14 – Managing day-to-day people activities remote vs co-located 00:06:30 – The importance of planning when collaborating remotely 00:09:00 – How GitLab keeps track of work progress 00:10:50 – The GitLab Employee Assistance Program 00:12:44 – Hiring Remotely @GitLab 00:21:32 – Total Rewards @GitLab 00:24:33 – Performance & Productivity @GitLab 00:27:05 – Autonomy & Responsibility @GitLab 00:30:23 – The “CEO Shadow Program” @GitLab 00:35:25 – Values @GitLab 00:38:57 – The Value of Transparency 00:40:15 – The “Priceless” Value of Remote Working 00:41:45 – The Iteration Process @GitLab 00:44:10 – What is “impossible” when remotely? 00:46:10 – What is the Future of Remote? Support this podcast

#skillsformars #remotework #futureofwork In this episode, we discuss remote from a different angle. We start with eSports and the learnings on remote from this newly booming industry. We then take a turn and discuss organizational design - hierarchies, agility, routines, change management, and designing employee interactions that lead to productivity and wellbeing when remote. Julien Clement (Assistant Professor - Stanford University) studies organization design and its impact on collaboration within and across organizations. He is generally interested in understanding the link between formal organizational structure and informal social relationships: how does an organization's structure affect how its members form relationships and develop routines? How can it help them adapt these routines when environmental demands change? And when can organizations thrive without any formal structure? Julien investigates these issues through a ‘micro-analytic' approach: rather than study organizations as broad aggregates, he starts by observing social interactions among individuals and tries to understand how organizational structure enables these interactions to aggregate into organizational outcomes. His work has relied on a variety of analytical methods (network analysis, agent-based models, big-data analytics) applied in a variety of contexts including the television game-show industry, professional videogaming (e-Sports) and mobile healthcare in Africa. Most recently, Julien started studying how the deployment of artificial intelligence inside organizations may affect collaboration and learning among their members. If you want to find out more about Julien's research or get in touch: https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=ftMdQ9sAAAAJ&hl=en https://www.linkedin.com/in/julien-cl%C3%A9ment-4028b61a/ MAKING REMOTE WORK - is a limited series led by the ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN COMMUNITY and hosted by SKILLS FOR MARS. It is a public service video-podcast in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will host 20+ researchers and practitioners in the field of distributed work. They will share their insights and knowledge to support companies and employees who are making this transition. Subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars https://podhero.com/dashboard/show/474530/ (register, follow & support podcast) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home Support this podcast

#skillsformars #remotework #futureofwork Faethm is a globally unique AI platform that predicts the workforce impact of dynamic forces such as AI, Covid-19 and Robotics on current and future jobs. In this episode, I talk with Greg Miller, Executive Director of Faethm. We discuss the Covid-19 workforce study conducted together with MIT, the Evolution of Work for the jobs that are looking at higher levels of displacement due to AI & Robotics & the Future of Remote Work. If you want to find out more about Faethem, get in touch with Greg or read the Faethm-MIT Covid-19 workforce study: https://faethm.ai/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/millergj/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/30/1000888/covid-19-and-the-workforce-critical-workers-productivity-and-the-future-of-ai/ MAKING REMOTE WORK - is a limited series led by the ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN COMMUNITY and hosted by SKILLS FOR MARS. It is a public service video-podcast in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will host 20+ researchers and practitioners in the field of distributed work. They will share their insights and knowledge to support companies and employees who are making this transition. Subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars https://podhero.com/dashboard/show/474530/ (register, follow & support podcast) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home Support this podcast

#skillsformars #remotework #futureofwork On this episode, I am hosting Liam Martin, the co-founder of Time Doctor and the organizer of the Running Remote Conference. We look at remote with practitioner's eyes and dive into the economic advantages of remote work, the potential failures of Remote, setting compensation & benefits for remote teams, the advantages of hiring talent remotely, and much more. If you want to find out more about Liam, Running Remote or Time Doctor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liammcivormartin/ http://runningremote.com/  https://timedoctor.com MAKING REMOTE WORK - is a limited series led by the ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN COMMUNITY and hosted by SKILLS FOR MARS. It is a public service video-podcast in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will host 20+ researchers and practitioners in the field of distributed work. They will share their insights and knowledge to support companies and employees who are making this transition. Subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars https://podhero.com/dashboard/show/474530/ (register, follow & support podcast) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home Support this podcast

#skillsformars #remotework #futureofwork Roderick Swaab is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD. His research examines the impact of communication structures on value creation in business negotiations and conflict resolution. He also studies the emergence of social hierarchies in teams and how these impact coordination, conflict, and performance. His research has produced interventions that improve negotiation, dispute resolution, and collaboration, and has been published in leading journals, such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Psychological Science. MAKING REMOTE WORK - is a limited series led by the ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN COMMUNITY and hosted by SKILLS FOR MARS. It is a public service video-podcast in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will host 20+ researchers and practitioners in the field of distributed work. They will share their insights and knowledge to support companies and employees who are making this transition. Subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars https://podhero.com/dashboard/show/474530/ (register, follow & support podcast) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home Support this podcast

#skillsformars #remotework #futureofwork What does Evolutionary Psychology teach us about Remote Work? Is our hunter-gatherer ancestry hindering us in virtual environments? How do we deal with crisis situations and what makes a good leader in such times? How will employees behave in the economic downturn that is looming? Join the engaging discussion with Professor Mark van Vugt on Making Remote Work! Mark van Vugt is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, Work and Organizational Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is also a Research Associate at the Department for Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, UK. His expertise is in evolutionary perspectives on human social behavior and in applications of evolutionary psychology to fields such as leadership, business & management, economics, sustainability, health, politics, war & peace.  MAKING REMOTE WORK - is a limited series led by the ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN COMMUNITY and hosted by SKILLS FOR MARS. It is a public service video-podcast in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will host 20+ researchers and practitioners in the field of distributed work. They will share their insights and knowledge to support companies and employees who are making this transition. Subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars https://podhero.com/dashboard/show/474530/ (register, follow & support podcast) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home Support this podcast

#skillsformars #remotework #futureofwork On this episode of "Making Remote Work," I am hosting one of the few people who have studied Remote Work from its early beginnings. We discuss the history of remote, individual differences in adapting to such settings, knowledge creation, organizational identification, and the future of remote work. Sumita Raghuram is the Alan and Lori Kessler Endowed Professor in Human Resource Management. Sumita received her Ph.D. from University of Minnesota in Human Resource Management. She then was a faculty member at Fordham University, New York and at Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania. With over 30 years of teaching and research experience, she teaches subject areas in Human Resource Management at SJSU. Her primary research areas are in virtual work, international human resource management and tech workers. Topics such as employee identity, employee turnover and engagement, well-being and impact of tech work on human resource management are of particular interest to her. She has published her research in journals such as the Academy of Management Annals, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology and Journal of Organization Behavior. Sumita has also been a visiting faculty at international business schools such as Copenhagen Business School, Bologna Business School, and Indian School of Business. MAKING REMOTE WORK - is a limited series led by the ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN COMMUNITY and hosted by SKILLS FOR MARS. It is a public service video-podcast in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will host 20+ researchers and practitioners in the field of distributed work. They will share their insights and knowledge to support companies and employees who are making this transition. Subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars https://podhero.com/dashboard/show/474530/ (register, follow & support podcast) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home Support this podcast

#skillsformars #remotework #futureofwork On this episode of "Making Remote Work" I am hosting one of the veteran practitioners of Remote Work - Darren Murph, Head of Remote for GitLab. We discuss Transparency, Values, Leadership, Communication and, of course, the famous GitLab Handbook. As Head of Remote @Gitlab, Darren Murph works at the intersection of culture, process, hiring, employer branding, marketing, and communication. His job is to ensure that GitLab team members acclimate well to remote, that they embrace the values and operate with remote-first workflows. (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/readmes/dmurph/) MAKING REMOTE WORK - is a limited series led by the ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN COMMUNITY and hosted by SKILLS FOR MARS. It is a public service video-podcast in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will host 20+ researchers and practitioners in the field of distributed work. They will share their insights and knowledge to support companies and employees who are making this transition. Subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars https://podhero.com/dashboard/show/474530/ (register, follow & support podcast) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home Support this podcast

#skillsformars #remotework #futureofwork Sujin Jang is an Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD. Sujin's research examines how people collaborate across various types of boundaries, such as cultural differences, functional divides, and dispersion across time zones. Sujin has received numerous awards and recognition for her research. Her article on Cultural Brokerage and Creative Performance is one of the 5 most downloaded articles in Organization Science. Sujin's research has also been featured in outlets such as the Harvard Business Review, Quartz, Scientific American, and INSEAD Knowledge. Her article on Cross-Silo Leadership appears in HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership (Vol. 2) as one of the most influential articles on leadership from the last decade. On this episode of Making Remote Work we are going to dive deep into pioneering research on cultural and temporal brokers and their role in distributed work environments.  If you are interested in learning how to set-up multicultural teams to prime them for performance and how to deal with team members that work on different time zones – you will have a great time listening to this discussion. MAKING REMOTE WORK - is a limited series led by the ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN COMMUNITY and hosted by SKILLS FOR MARS. It is a public service video-podcast in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will host 20+ researchers and practitioners in the field of distributed work. They will share their insights and knowledge to support companies and employees who are making this transition. Subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars https://podhero.com/dashboard/show/474530/ (register, follow & support podcast) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home Support this podcast

#skillsformars #remotework #futureofwork Srikanth Kannan is an Associate Professor of Strategy at the Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University. Broadly, his research investigates how to design organizations and inter-organizational relationships to be more effective and more innovative. He has studied mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, outsourcing and offshoring relationships, and global product development. He regularly consults and teaches with companies across Asia, Europe and North America. He has received several awards for his contribution to management knowledge, he is a member of various editorial boards, his research has been published in the business press and has been widely presented at research conferences around the world.  On this episode we dissect coordination in remote settings, what are the different types, what works best-when, how to combine coordination strategies for better results. We also discuss offshoring and outsourcing during the current move to forced remote work due to COVID-19, and the short and long term effects diversity can have on team performance. MAKING REMOTE WORK - is a limited series led by the ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN COMMUNITY and hosted by SKILLS FOR MARS. It is a public service video-podcast in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will host 20+ researchers and practitioners in the field of distributed work. They will share their insights and knowledge to support companies and employees who are making this transition. Subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars https://podhero.com/dashboard/show/474530/ (register, follow & support podcast) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home Support this podcast

#skillsformars #remotework #futureofwork Prithwiraj 'Raj' Choudhury is the Lumry Family Associate Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Department at Harvard Business School. His research has been published in numerous research journals, he has been profiled by the BBC and CNBC, and cited by Bloomberg Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Yahoo! Finance, and Inc among other outlets. He is also the winner of several awards granted by prestigious institutions. Join us as we discuss the future of Remote Work after the pandemic, the distinction of working from home vs. working from anywhere, and the benefits the latter can bring in terms of productivity and innovation. We also touch on Raj's research on migrant workers and pro-social behavior in crisis situations. MAKING REMOTE WORK - is a limited series led by the ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN COMMUNITY and hosted by SKILLS FOR MARS. It is a public service video-podcast in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will host 20+ researchers and practitioners in the field of distributed work. They will share their insights and knowledge to support companies and employees who are making this transition. Subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars https://podhero.com/dashboard/show/474530/ (register, follow & support podcast) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home Support this podcast

#skillsformars #remotework #futureofwork Mark worked in non-remote, hybrid, and all-remote environments. In this episode we talk about the differences, the difficulties, and also the exciting parts of all-remote. We discuss leadership – what it takes to lead remote teams and how to recruit for the right leaders. We also touch on remote coordination, reducing isolation, building a culture of care and trust, so everyone can thrive in this environment. Mark Frein is the Chief People Officer for Lambda School (https://lambdaschool.com/). Prior to this, he worked in a similar role for InVision (https://www.invisionapp.com/) MAKING REMOTE WORK - is a limited series led by the ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN COMMUNITY and hosted by SKILLS FOR MARS. It is a public service video-podcast in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will host 20+ researchers and practitioners in the field of distributed work. They will share their insights and knowledge to support companies and employees who are making this transition. Subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars https://podhero.com/dashboard/show/474530/ (register, follow & support podcast) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home Support this podcast