Podcasts about collaboration superpowers

In this episode Lisette Sutherland talks about remote working and how you get the best out of it. Lisette authored the Work Together Anywhere Handbook, is a TEDX speaker and runs the company Collaboration Superpowers. Show Links Ben LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/benpthoughts/ Tech World Human Skills Home - www.techworldhumanskills.com Lisette LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisettesutherland/ https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/

Maya and Pilar discuss some of the ways in which remote workers are networking. And very special guest Matt Ballantine shares his experiment “100 coffees”. Recorded on 21 March 2024. To get in touch, head over to https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/contact-us  Maya shares a recent event she ran as part of Remote Work Europe, with Ali Meehan on “speed networking”. Someone else organising networking-type events is Lisette Sutherland from Collaboration Superpowers, who is running virtual coworking sessions: https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/workshops/schedule/?type=1112 Maybe this kind of event is something organisations could run, instead of assuming the best way for people to connect is through face to face social events? 12.25mins Special guest Matt Ballantine tells us about his relationship building experiment: 100 coffees. Read about it here: https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/category/projects/100-coffees/ Connect with Matt on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattballantine/ Listen to his previous episode on this show: https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/podcasts/collaboration-in-organisations Listen to the WB40 podcast, or even, book a coffee time with Matt: https://calendly.com/matt-ballantine 27.15mins What about online communities? Belonging to a public group and a private one, and a free one versus a paid one, are very different experiences. Remote Work Europe has a public, open group on Facebook, and a private community, over at https://www.remoteworkeurope.eu/connected Communities and relationships can exist both online and off: we mention Social Now as a conference about the digital workspace: 16th and 17th May in Lisbon, and also the online community Asynco. And relationship building can be synchronous or asynchronous. Virtual Team Talk, set up back in the day by Pilar and Lisette, is still around! 43.15mins And Social Media? How's it going over on LinkedIn? If you want to become active on the platform, join the RWE challenge: https://www.linkedin.com/events/levelupyourlinkedinspring2024-a7175914652218834945/comments/ Or, you might want to join Alison Jones' Book Proposal Challenge. And being part of a challenge itself is a great way of meeting new people with whom you have something in common! 52.30mins In the absence of people, can generative AI bots help? A cheeky transition into some resources we have around generative AI: Maya has created the course: Generative AI Secrets For Remote Work Search Success And Pilar is now blogging about her artistic projects with and without genAI over at Spiralling Creativity, where her latest post ponders on whether genAI is a Clown .

In this episode of the Collaboration Superpowers podcast, we hosted esteemed guests David Horowitz, Esther Derby, and Diana Larsen. The conversation dived into the essence of conducting a successful remote agile retrospective, highlighting the importance of clear goals, structured feedback, and the engagement of all team members. Our guests shared common pitfalls in organizing retrospectives, such as lack of preparation and inadequate follow-up on action items. They reflected on their journey of writing and updating their seminal book on agile retrospectives, noting the adjustments made in the second edition to address changes in the agile landscape and incorporate new learnings. For more stories of remote teams doing great things, visit https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com.

Pilar and Tim are back having a conversation about conversations. Following on from #66 which covered 1:1 conversations, in this episode they dive into group discussions. Facilitating a group adds another layer of complexity - for example giving more time to one person means less time for everyone else. And people behave differently in group conversations. There are more people to be mindful of, more rapport to build, more status to be won and lost. And for managers it is a challenge. There is lots going on within the group dynamic - and in our own minds. We have to be aware of our own habits and those of our people, and even reassess our idea of the many forms worthwhile contributions and engagement can look like in a group. 00:10 mins Through her career in facilitation and leading groups Pilar has learnt that some people need time or a few attempts to get their point across. These people are hard to manage in a group conversation because if you want them to contribute to the conversation you have to make enough space for them. 4:00 Pilar suggests talking with them separately before the group conversation. If you understand what they want to communicate then you can use that in the larger discussion. For example, you can gently bring them to their point or help them by paraphrasing their thoughts. Sometimes when people don't feel understood they keep trying different ways to get their point across. Which can take time! 5:45 Tim proposes bringing them later into the discussion, after some of their points have already been covered, so they don't need to say as much. This can be a win-win if you get them to buy into this plan. By letting others contribute early on, engagement will increase throughout the discussion. And so if your "long talkers" are able to wait, their later contribution will have a greater impact because everyone is more engaged in what they are saying. 7:45 As someone who has orchestrated a lot of large group discussions online, Pilar has seen the good and bad of breakout rooms. One benefit is conversations can happen in parallel. Splitting the group for part of the time can be a useful in-person tool too. 9:00 Tim confesses that he gets a thrill out of being the lead in a big group discussion. Breakout rooms mean a smaller audience! Pilar reassures him that it's ok to enjoy that spotlight. As leaders we need to meet some of our own needs as well as the needs of our team. And we can still get joy from aspects like setting direction, bringing people back together and summarising for the group. 11:45 In-person meetings have logistical challenges to breakout discussions. It can be hard enough to book one meeting space for the time you need, let alone if you want to include several breakout spaces as well. 13:00 We can overcome some of the logistics by looking beyond the idea that a discussion has to be a large group all in a meeting room together at the same time. Smaller groups can meet beforehand, information can be shared in different mediums or distributed at different times, parts of the discussions can even be asynchronous. This can give opportunity to those who need time to digest information or those who don't want to talk in front of a large group. 15:30 Leaders will sometimes need to focus on their own contribution to a discussion. At times like these it's super helpful to have built capacity for others in the team to be able to run the meeting. 16:00 We can also think about how our people's traits might be helpful. Opinionated people can help start a discussion or the person who thinks out loud can run through the agenda. 16:50 When a group discussion gets close to an outcome, Tim can get overexcited and lose his balance. 18:00 The great Lisette Sutherland from Collaboration Superpowers taught Tim that if people don't speak in the first 5 minutes of a meeting they are significantly less likely to speak for the entire rest of the meeting. He tried to resist the thrill of being the first person to say an idea. Instead he found a new pleasure of holding back to see if, after everyone had made their contribution, he still had a unique contribution to make. 20:30 Pilar shares a story of a time she got her desired result just by waiting and letting the other people speak. This is a great skill to build in individual and group situations. What about you, dear listener? What do you find hard with group conversations? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch through our Contact Form https://managementcafepodcast.com/contact/     

Lisette Sutherland is an expert in remote collaboration, not just remote work. With a rich international background, Lisette brings a unique blend of experiences to the table. She's lived in Germany, the United States, and now calls the Netherlands home. Lisette is also the host of the Collaboration Superpowers podcast, where she explores the nuances of remote work with experts from around the globe.

Today's guest is Lisette Sutherland, host of the Collaboration Superpowers podcast, a show about people doing great things remotely. (And she was also Pilar's first co-host on the 21st Century Work Life podcast, back in 2014!)You can find the full show notes over at https://www.adventuresinpodcasting.com/ep36/If you're thinking of starting your own podcasting adventure, I recommend Buzzsprout as host - click here for my affiliate link, which also gets you a little discount, and Riverside FM for recording, which you can access through this other affiliate link.

086: Lisette Sutherland is a remote-working, German-born, Dutch-American, living in the Netherlands – who is totally jazzed by the fact that it's possible to work from anywhere. She authored the Work Together Anywhere Handbook, hosts a regular podcast featuring interviews with remote-working experts, and facilitates workshops on a variety of remote working topics like hybrid working, better online meetings, and virtual leadership. She has given presentations at a wide range of events, from conferences and events all over the world, to podcasts, online meetups, telepresence events, virtual reality, and then back to earth for a TEDx talk in Kaunas, Lithuania. For 7 years (2013-2020), Lisette served as the Remote Office Manager for the 100% remote company, Management 3.0, focused on helping organisations implement modern leadership strategies. She is currently serving as a member of the EU/US Transatlantic Expert Group on the future of work brought together by Bruegel and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Her company, Collaboration Superpowers, provides individuals, teams, and managers with a roadmap of how to work together anywhere – successfully through online, interactive workshops given by professional licensed facilitators all over the world. ‌ Website: https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/ Book:https://www.amazon.com/Work-Together-Anywhere-Successfully-Individuals/dp/1119745225/ https://www.amazon.com/Work-Together-Anywhere-Successfully-Individuals/dp/1119745225/ Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-collaboration-superpowers-podcast/id931999061 TEDx talk: https://lisettesutherland.com/tedx/  Super kit: https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/superkit/ Tools for remote workers: https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/tools/ Toogl: https://toggl.com/

In this episode, Richard interviews Lisette Sutherland. Lisette is an author and keynote speaker, helping people work remotely successfully. She's also the founder of the online community Virtual Team Talk, the host of the Collaboration Superpowers podcast, and the founder and director of the Collaboration Superpowers consulting firm. Lisette tells us about the importance of personal connections in the workplace and how to foster them in remote teams. When you finish listening to the episode, check out Lisette's website, visit collaborationsuperpowers.com, and give a listen to her podcast. You can read the transcript of the entire episode at https://kasperowski.com/podcast-87-lisette-sutherland/.

Welcome to Episode 73 of The Future of Work, the podcast that looks at every aspect of work in the future, featuring industry experts and thought leaders discussing how work is changing and evolving. The Future of Work is NOW.This week we turn the focus of our conversation to collaboration and the Future of Work. Our guest is Lisette Sutherland, Director of Collaboration Superpowers, a company that helps people work together from anywhere through online workshops. She is the author of the Work Together Anywhere Handbook, the host of a podcast featuring interviews with remote-working experts, and a facilitator of workshops on a variety of remote working topics.  Finally in Episode 73, we start by looking forward to what collaboration might look like before consolidating things with some practical applications of collaboration and some of Lisette's favorite researchers in this area.

Welcome to Episode 72 of The Future of Work, the podcast that looks at every aspect of work in the future, featuring industry experts and thought leaders discussing how work is changing and evolving. The Future of Work is NOW.This week we turn the focus of our conversation to collaboration and the Future of Work. Our guest is Lisette Sutherland, Director of Collaboration Superpowers, a company that helps people work together from anywhere through online workshops. She is the author of the Work Together Anywhere Handbook, the host of a podcast featuring interviews with remote-working experts, and a facilitator of workshops on a variety of remote working topics.  In Episode 72 we look at the evolution of collaboration from 5 years ago to what it is today, including a cool look at the advancement of Augmented Reality.

Welcome to Episode 71 of The Future of Work, the podcast that looks at every aspect of work in the future, featuring industry experts and thought leaders discussing how work is changing and evolving. The Future of Work is NOW.This week we turn the focus of our conversation to collaboration and the Future of Work. Our guest is Lisette Sutherland, Director of Collaboration Superpowers, a company that helps people work together from anywhere through online workshops. She is the author of the Work Together Anywhere Handbook, the host of a podcast featuring interviews with remote-working experts, and a facilitator of workshops on a variety of remote working topics.  In Episode 71 we explore the definition of collaboration, and how it can be measured, and if we should be measuring it.

We've reached Episode 300 on the Collaboration Superpowers podcast! In this episode, I highlight 6 of my favorite segments from the last 50 interviews. Featuring: Rebecca Seal (How to Work Alone), Carlos Valdes-Dapena (Corporate Collaboration Resources), Darren Murph (GitLab), Dan Manian (Donut), Karim Reed (Suddenly Hybrid), and Rowena Hennigan (RoRemote). For more stories, visit www.CollaborationSuperpowers.com.

Overview Tune in for Ep.6 of Employer Branding: The Inside Podcast, Season 4! In this episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Lisette Sutherland about the #FutureOfWork, the hybrid workforce, and the importance of building boundaries when working remotely. Lisette is the founder of @Collaboration Superpowers and the author of the book “Work Together Anywhere”. Throughout the podcast we also talked about productivity, the importance of building boundaries when working remotely, how the function of the office is changing, and so much more. Enjoy! What you'll learn by listeningRemote work: once a luxury, now a standard! What does the future of work hold?Living in the hybrid workforce Understanding productivity: “twilights” vs “night owls”The office 2.0: how the function of the office is changing Useful tips for working together efficiently from anywhereCreating a team “creed”: the holy grail of effective collaboration in a remote world The importance of building boundaries when working remotely Where do companies go wrong when it comes to remote work?About the companyThe mission of Collaboration Superpowers is to provide individuals, teams, managers, and owners a roadmap of how to work together anywhere — successfully.Amassed from interviews with more than one hundred workers and manager/owners, Collaboration Superpowers provides a treasure trove of advice and action lists; tips, tools, and solutions; and personal reports of individuals and teams engaged in doing great things from wherever they happen to be.

Valentina trabaja en la facilitación de equipos y organizaciones para inspirar el cambio, entregando herramientas útiles que permitan transformar la manera en que colaboramos e interactuamos en el mundo laboral, integrando diferentes marcos de trabajo como: sociocracia, Management 3.0, LEAN Change Management, Organizaciones Exponenciales (ExO Sprint), Collaboration Superpowers y Google Design Sprint. Valentina parte de la lucha por Reinventar el trabajo, para construir organizaciones más humanas, valientes y con sentido.

Lisette Sutherland is the director of Collaboration Superpowers, a company that helps people work together from anywhere through online workshops. She also produces a regular podcast featuring interviews with remote working experts highlighting the challenges and successes of working with virtual teams.Episode 225 “What not to wear when working remotely”https://open.spotify.com/episode/6s6DV270GQEJnbl1IaTesP?si=LYCd5ItjSPeJuxE8dvSH6ACollaboration Superpowershttps://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/Podcasthttps://lisettesutherland.com/podcasts/From Lisette's toolboxhttps://www.mmhmm.app/--------If you enjoy this micro podcast, please subscribe and leave a review.You can find me on Twitter @CSMToolboxDon't forget to use the hashtag #CSMToolbox if you find an upcoming mobile or web app that can help us improve and enhance our customer engagement.Connect with Isabel Ruiz  https://bit.ly/2NDfOvyJoin our CSM Toolbox LinkedIn page https://www.linkedin.com/company/csmtoolbox/

Lisette Sutherland is a Netherlands-based facilitator, author, podcaster, and speaker. She is an advocate for remote working, which is quite popular right now for obvious reasons. She is such a fan of remote working that she formed a company around it, Collaboration Superpowers. We spoke about her degree in a field I’d never heard of before, Watershed Science, her transition to self-employment, and her plans for Collaboration Superpowers. Learn more about Collaboration Superpowers at https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/. DOWNLOAD THE EXCUSE ASSESSMENT tool - prioritize solutions based on severity of excuse. download.teachthegeek.com TEACH THE GEEK - public speaking for engineers and scientists teachthegeek.com anchor.fm/teachthegeek @teachthegeek (FB, Twitter) @_teachthegeek_ (IG, TikTok) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Read the full Show Notes and search through the world’s largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website. In this episode, we talk about the focus destroyer and the 5 characteristics that successful PO’s share.  The Great Product Owner: 5 characteristics of successful PO’s We talk about  5 characteristics that great Product Owners have. From the ability to listen to the team and customers to their focus on measuring the impact of their ideas/product on the customer. The Bad Product Owner: “Everything is a priority” anti-pattern “Everything is a priority” is a phrase that points to a PO that can’t make decisions, or is unaware of the priorities that matter for their customers. However, there’s where the anti-pattern starts. There are many more consequences from that perspective/attitude like the team losing focus and not being able to finish the things they started.  Are you having trouble helping the team working well with their Product Owner? We’ve put together a course to help you work on the collaboration team-product owner. You can find it at: bit.ly/coachyourpo. 18 modules, 8+ hours of modules with tools and techniques that you can use to help teams and PO’s collaborate. About Nikoletta Tátar Nikoletta is an Agile Coach who is passionate about creating an environment where teams and individuals have the space to grow, deliver awesome products to customers, and have fun doing so. She is also a Collaboration Superpowers facilitator holding workshops online about remote working and collaboration.  You can link with Nikoletta Tátar on LinkedIn and connect with Nikoletta Tátar on Twitter.

Read the full Show Notes and search through the world’s largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website. Do you have a culture of appreciation in the Scrum team? That’s one of the signs of a team that is jelling and on its way to success. We also discuss tips on how to help the team spend more time and effort highlighting the best things that happen, with the goal of building energy and achieving a more positive work atmosphere.  Featured Retrospective Format for the Week: Mad/Sad/Glad, with a Kudos card section We’ve discussed the Mad/Sad/Glad Agile Retrospective format before, but in this episode, we talk about adding a Kudos card section to that format. The Kudo card section adds higher energy to the retrospective and helps motivate the team. Do you wish you had decades of experience? Learn from the Best Scrum Masters In The World, Today! The Tips from the Trenches - Scrum Master edition audiobook includes hours of audio interviews with SM’s that have decades of experiences: from Mike Cohn to Linda Rising, Christopher Avery, and many more. Super-experienced Scrum Masters share their hard-earned lessons with you. Learn those today, make your teams awesome!  About Nikoletta Tátar Nikoletta is an Agile Coach who is passionate about creating an environment where teams and individuals have the space to grow, deliver awesome products to customers, and have fun doing so. She is also a Collaboration Superpowers facilitator holding workshops online about remote working and collaboration.  You can link with Nikoletta Tátar on LinkedIn and connect with Nikoletta Tátar on Twitter.

Read the full Show Notes and search through the world’s largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website. Change management is primarily an exercise in managing expectations among all stakeholders. In this episode, we talk about the role that “small changes” have in that process. We also discuss how to find the motivation / needed changes by working with the teams we support. Nikoletta shares many tips on how make change thrive and overcome change resistance.   About Nikoletta Tátar Nikoletta is an Agile Coach who is passionate about creating an environment where teams and individuals have the space to grow, deliver awesome products to customers, and have fun doing so. She is also a Collaboration Superpowers facilitator holding workshops online about remote working and collaboration.  You can link with Nikoletta Tátar on LinkedIn and connect with Nikoletta Tátar on Twitter.

Read the full Show Notes and search through the world’s largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website. This particular team acted more like a set of independent individuals. While trying to figure out why Nikoletta found out that they were missing a common goal and purpose. On top of that, their individual goals were set up in a way that led to conflict. Nikoletta set about working with the team to understand why that was the case and to help them overcome the lack of shared goals with the aim of helping them collaborate better.  In this episode, we refer to the concept of “holding the space” and the “Personal Maps” tool that helped Nikoletta understand better the team members and their motivation. Featured Book of the Week: Coaching Agile Teams, by Lyssa Adkins Nikoletta was recommended Coaching Agile Teams by her mentor, and the book helped her understand the role of the coach and how Scrum Masters must evolve towards a coaching role as they help the teams.   About Nikoletta Tátar Nikoletta is an Agile Coach who is passionate about creating an environment where teams and individuals have the space to grow, deliver awesome products to customers, and have fun doing so. She is also a Collaboration Superpowers facilitator holding workshops online about remote working and collaboration.  You can link with Nikoletta Tátar on LinkedIn and connect with Nikoletta Tátar on Twitter.

Read the full Show Notes and search through the world’s largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website. An Agile transformation is not an easy goal to achieve. In this episode with Nikoletta, we discuss what are some of the “must-have” conditions for the Agile transformation to have a chance to succeed. We also talk about how Scrum Masters can help organizations find the right reason for change while working with both leadership and the “doers”.   About Nikoletta Tátar Nikoletta is an Agile Coach who is passionate about creating an environment where teams and individuals have the space to grow, deliver awesome products to customers, and have fun doing so. She is also a Collaboration Superpowers facilitator holding workshops online about remote working and collaboration.  You can link with Nikoletta Tátar on LinkedIn and connect with Nikoletta Tátar on Twitter.

Welcome back to the Teammate Apart Podcast. Today’s special guest is a remote work expert and industry staple, Lisette Sutherland. Lisette is a facilitator, author, speaker, and remote-working champion for individuals, teams, and managers. She is the founder of Collaboration Superpowers — a remote work consultancy that bridges the gaps between people and companies — and the author of the best-selling book “Work Together Anywhere.”Lisette was kind enough to have featured me on the Collaboration Superpowers podcast back on episode 254, and here allowing me to return the favor with an amazing discussion about the impact of COVID-19 on remote business, setting intentions, adaptability, and resilience, and the future of work, please join me in welcoming to the show, the incredible, Lisette Sutherland.  Lisette SutherlandFacilitator, author, podcaster, speaker, and remote-working champion for individuals, teams & managershttps://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisettesutherland/About Lisette SutherlandLisette Sutherland is a remote-working German-born American living in the Netherlands who is totally jazzed by the fact that it's possible to work from anywhere. In fact, she believes, it's not just possible; it's completely, productively workable—if you do it right.From her extensive research and first-hand experience, as well as from interviews with hundreds of workers and manager/owners, Lisette has collected a treasure trove of advice & action lists, pitfalls & solutions, and personal reports of individuals and teams engaged in doing great things—successfully—from wherever they happen to be. She has woven all that into her company, COLLABORATION SUPERPOWERS, which offers its gems in a variety of formats:• Work Together Anywhere: A Handbook on Working Remotely—Successfully—for Individuals, Teams, and Managers (2018/2020)• Work Together Anywhere workshops and webinars• Weekly podcasts featuring interviews with remote working experts• Bi-monthly newsletter• Blogposts• Speaking engagements & presentations===

What is remote-first? In normal times, it's an organization that is built in such a way that anyone can go remote if necessary. “Whether or not you want to allow your employees to go remote, you should have the processes in place to be able to just-in-case because you see transportation problems loom all over the world, weather problems all over the world, sick children at home. There were all kinds of reasons why a business should be putting remote processes into place,” said Lisette Sutherland on this episode of The New Stack Makers. For Sutherland, founder of Collaboration Superpowers remote team workshops, longtime remote work podcast host, and author of A Handbook on Working Remotely — Successfully — for Individuals, Teams, and Managers, we've been technologically ready for a remote-first world for about five years now. And she says there's always been logic in factoring a remote-first mindset into your business continuity planning. Plus, giving the option of remote work often makes for a much more inclusive workplace that in turn empowers a business to hire the best candidate no matter where they live. With remote work, “people can hire people who love what they do, rather than people who are just doing their job,” Sutherland said.

Lisette Sutherland shares expert tips and tricks for working from home masterfully.— YOU'LL LEARN — 1) The remote worker hierarchy of needs.2) Smarter alternatives to online meetings.3) Three tips for managing distractions while working remotely.Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep561 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT LISETTE —Lisette Sutherland is the director of Collaboration Superpowers, a company that helps people work together from anywhere through online and in-person workshops. She also produces a weekly podcast featuring interviews with remote working experts highlighting the challenges and successes of working with virtual teams. • Lisette's book: Work Together Anywhere: A Handbook on Working Remotely—Successfully—for Individuals, Teams, and Managers• Lisette's newsletter: CollaborationSuperpowers.com/newsletter• Lisette's Twitter: @lightling• Lisette's website: LisetteSutherland.com• Lisette's website: CollaborationSuperpowers.com— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — • Technique: Pomodoro Technique• Speed test site: Speedtest.net• Loom• Tool: QC35 Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones• Tool: Autonomous ErgoChair II• Tool: Sennheiser SC 60 headset• Tool: IQair HealthPro plus• Tool: Force of Nature cleaner• Tool: Logitech G Pro mouse• Tool: Kinesis Freestyle 2 keyboard• Tool: AmazonBasics Monitor Arm• Tool: UPLIFT Desk• Tool: Telepresence robot• Virtual Office: Remo• Virtual Office: Sococo• Virtual Office: Workabout Workplace• Book: Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire (Bpg-Other) by Cliff Atkinson• Comic: WiFi Hierarchy of NeedsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We've reached Episode 250 on the Collaboration Superpowers podcast. In this episode, I highlight 5 of my favorite segments from the last 50 interviews. Featuring: Sue Hope (Xero), Magda Ferretti (Magda Ferretti Coaching & Training), Toby Newman (HERE Technologies), Tim Burgess (Shield GEO), and Wade Foster (Zapier). For more stories, visit www.CollaborationSuperpowers.com.

Today’s guest is Lisette Sutherland, remote work advocate extraordinaire and the driving force behind Collaboration Superpowers. Lisette’s superpower is the ability to give multiple options to tackle the most grievous of remote work challenges, and she has compiled them all on her excellent book – “Work Together Anywhere.” Our conversation with Lisette goes from hiring to onboarding to how to get experience in the remote work arena, even veering at times into the weird and wonderful world of video-gaming and virtual reality. All of this with her book as the background.

What does it mean to be “remote first?” Would you drop your new employee, on her first day of work, on an empty cubicle without any instructions and not even a chair? Some companies do the digital equivalent of that, and Lisette Sutherland, the mastermind behind Collaboration Superpowers, talks to us about how to avoid this pitfall and many others!Welcome to the DistantJob Podcast, a show where we interview the top remote leaders, picking their brains on how to build and lead remote teams who win.Today’s guest is Lisette Sutherland, remote work advocate extraordinaire and the driving force behind Collaboration Superpowers. Lisette’s superpower is the ability to give multiple options to tackle the most grievous of remote work challenges, and she has compiled them all on her excellent book - “Work Together Anywhere.”Our conversation with Lisette goes from hiring to onboarding to how to get experience in the remote work arena, even veering at times into the weird and wonderful world of video-gaming and virtual reality. All of this with her book as the background.Want to continue the conversation with Lisette? Twitter: https://twitter.com/lightlingCollaboration Superpowers Blog /Podcast / Resources: https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.comWork Together Anywhere (Kindle E-book/Print) on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2EeORXDAs always, if you enjoy the podcast, we humbly ask that you leave a review on iTunes or your podcast syndication service of choice – and if you could share it, that would be even better!Need that one incredible employee to bolster your team?  Get in touch at https://distantjob.com/contact/  and we’ll find you who you need. 

In Episode 21, we meet Lisette Sutherland, who describes herself as a remote-working German-born American living in the Netherlands who is today jazzed by the fact that it is possible to work from anywhere. Not just possible, but completely, productively workable — if you do it right. Lisette is a public speaker, workshop leader, and the director of Collaboration Superpowers, a company that helps people work together from anywhere through online and in-person workshops.

This week on the If You Market podcast we speak with Lisette Sutherland of Collaboration Superpowers about both managing remote workers and working remotely.  Lisette also shares her least favorite video conference software and much more. Lisette Sutherland is a remote-working German-born American living in the Netherlands who is totally jazzed by the fact that it’s possible to work from anywhere. In fact, it’s not just possible; it’s completely, productively workable – if you do it right.

Former co-host of this show Lisette will be familiar to long-term listeners, who might have wondered where she’d got to – well, wonder no more! She was busy writing “Work Together Anywhere”, which gave us a great excuse to catch up in our featured segment today. And don’t forget to join us over on twitter (@PilarOrti or @Virtualteamw0rk), where one discussion this week has been all about what we call that bit on the screen where our colleague’s head appears. Not as obvious as it sounds! Can you add any suggestions? https://twitter.com/PilarOrti/status/1053025198188965891 Speaking of social media, we were so happy to be included in Geoff Watts’ video about his top 10 agile podcasts – he’s a great entertaining Youtuber and podcaster, and we’re in some great company here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYYxiqUdpp0&feature=youtu.be      The Voice Behind The Book: Lisette Sutherland, author of Work Together Anywhere   It’s been a long time since we had a ‘virtual coffee’ with Lisette, so this was a great trip down memory lane for us both!  We don’t always have this degree of intimacy with our interviewees, at least not to the extent that they admit they started writing their book as an excuse to talk to people who might hire them for a job…  But the director of Collaboration Superpowers soon realised there was a genuine demand for a practical ‘how to’ handbook, to underpin the workshops they delivered. Written over a span of 5 years in the end, the book project morphed from a neon coffee table design vision to a practical, highly-navigable and structured guide, to help readers solve their own problems by being able to find the information they need most in the moment. Lisette’s insight into the collaboration process with her designer and editor will be valuable to anyone embarking on challenge of bringing a book into the world. As well as the practical stuff, Lisette’s work with Happy Melly (and long-term quest for aligning work and personal fulfillment) helps keep the focus on why working flexibly and remotely is so rewarding. In her extensive career helping teams work better together online, she’s seen some changes, including improved acceptance and technology – but sees that there is still a long way to go, and lots of work to do.   But she also reminds us that nothing beats a direct conversation, when working remotely. We shouldn’t be afraid to get on a call – or to try something completely new and different. There are so many blended and creative ways to communicate now, from video messages to picking up the phone, so don’t think about a dichotomy between text and ‘real’ connectivity. Above all Lisette reminds us to keep learning, stay humble, and continually evolve our practice and mindset – so our work can stay fresh and at its best. However many years of remote work experience we might have, we can still grow and develop. We never said remote was easy – but work in general isn’t easy.  With the right tactics and information, we can make it better. And there is no universal formula or single right way of doing this stuff. Personalities, energies and motivations combine differently on every team, however they are located.  As well as the book, you can enjoy Lisette’s podcast https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/podcasts/ (and don’t forget our own archives, talking to Lisette, through to the end of 2017!)   Recommended Tool: Loom A powerful way to share little videos, recording your screen in real time along with narration – and it’s a great way to share learning and ideas in remote teams.  It’s available as a chrome plugin, free, and super-easy to share and distribute. There’s no need for an account to view the videos – in fact you can see one right here https://www.useloom.com/share/91a03bf43a0a49908368e3b1bc0530f7 Wellbeing: Are you a Lark or an Owl?  It’s been a while, and we should not take wellbeing in remote work for granted.  And today Maya and Pilar reflect upon is the tradition of the ‘work day’, and how we can still end up following a habit from the industrial revolution… Could we be more productive, fulfilled and effective, by listening to our own energy levels and circadian rhythms? We talk a lot about the tools we have to collaborate asynchronously with colleagues in different time zones, so perhaps we could use them to work more flexibly with each other, and ourselves? To create a culture where we share stuff like ‘I am going for a walk to clear my head’ or, have a special Slack status to signify a siesta?   Team leaders can take the initiative and make sure that true temporal flexibility is part of your “work day”.      

We've reached Episode 200 on the Collaboration Superpowers podcast. In this episode, I highlight 5 of my favorite segments from the last 50 interviews. Featuring: Dom Price (Atlassian), Nicole Le Maire (The People Engine), Theresa Sigillito-Hollema (Interact Global), Beat Buhlmann (Evernote), and Lily Snyder (Doghead Simulations). For more stories, visit www.CollaborationSuperpowers.com.    

Pilar and Lisette review the last year and look forward to see what 2018 might bring. visit www.virtualnotdistant.com “Leadership in Remote Teams” online course 12 – 23 Feb 2018 www.virtualnotdistant.com/open-workshops/ Why Lisette won’t be joining us for the first two months of 2018. The difficulty of saying “no” and how difficult it is to hear it. Last year’s episode was episode 104 www.virtualnotdistant.com/podcasts/2016-headlines This was the article predicting 2017 10 Workplace Trends You'll See in 2017 http://www.forbes.com/sites/danschawbel/2016/11/01/workplace-trends-2017/#6954cfed3457 What we’ve seen happen in 2017 Skype for Business seems more popular while individuals seem to be moving away from Skype. How “co-working” means different things to different people. If you find it isolating to work from home, you need to be proactive in reaching out. The shift in mindset is slow… The use of technology in recruiting. “Experiences” as rewards. The gig economy. If you would like to know more about this, check out episode 19 of Evidence Talks. What’s been happening in 2017 in our own work lives Virtual not Distant Ross Winter took over the podcast polishing https://podcastpolishing.com/ Maya Middlemiss has joined the company! www.mayamiddlemiss.com Pilar and Lisette co-interviewed, and they also recorded an interview that will never air! Join us for Virtual Team Talk http://www.virtualteamtalk.com Online learning communities Lots more podcasts have been created. Pilar’s doing lots of podcasting, including Word Maze. Tom Petty and Ueli Steck died… Lisette delivered a TedX talk! 2017 Developments in the World of Work Are we working longer hours if we work from home – so what about employment law? Office 365 – the integration of tools More conversation around what is an office space for? ONE SIZE OFFICE DOESN"T FIT ALL https://www.standard.co.uk/business/will-the-traditional-office-exist-in-the-future-a3693196.html?amp At Deloitte, 83 per cent of the consultancy firm’s 16,000 UK employees use agile working — working from home or elsewhere when it suits them, and the business. Companies are also embracing the idea of collaborative working, in which they share office space with each other. Regus, which provides shared and serviced offices, has 300 sites in the UK serving 250,000 businesses including Uber. Clients can pay-as-they-go from £15 per person per day. https://www.wired.com/story/why-wework-is-buying-meetup/ Unlimited Vacation https://hbr.org/2017/11/the-ceo-of-kronos-on-launching-an-unlimited-vacation-policy  Distributed agile Thanks to Heidi Araya - @HeidiAraya on Twitter “Building career lifestyles” Pilar appeared in this Spanish podcast http://www.futureforwork.com/podcasts/equipos-virtuales-pero-no-distantes What We Look Forward to in 2018 Coaching online also works!  https://scienceforwork.com/blog/workplace-coaching/  Talk of how much home and work life should overlap or not. Online meetups and conferences – what will happen in that space? What will be different? An article about trends to look for in 2018: https://www.inc.com/christina-desmarais/22-trends-to-look-for-in-2018.html Automation and of course the books “Collaboration Superpowers” and “Online Meetings that Rock”!

For ages, people have been working from 9 to 5. Every day we commute - some of us for more than an hour each way - to lifeless grey offices, many filled with cubicles. I call them “day prisons”. But of course, they didn’t used to be day prisons. We used to have to go to a specific location in order to access the tools and information needed to do our work. But mobile devices, centralized data, and all kinds of apps and software are helping us stay connected to each other no matter where we are. And the ability to access information from anywhere is making the traditional 9-to-5 grind unnecessary for many of us. For more stories, visit www.CollaborationSuperpowers.com.

"At the end of the day, we are still just people working with other people. So how can we humanize the virtual office?" This is a great question and a driving force in the work that Lisette Sutherland and her team over at Collaboration Superpowers answer. In this episode of Rebel + Connect Radio, R+C co-founder and Director of Program Development Charlie Birch chats with Lisette about how to successfully create “norms” around what's best for your team. How does your team communicate best? How does your team operate as efficiently as possible while still having FUN? What habits, tools and tech are working for you and your team? What's not? How can Collaboration Superpowers help? Take a listen to find out just how incredible Lisette and her team will be for bringing humanity back into your remote team and making the virtual office a place people want to hang out!

In this episode, we talk about the four areas of teamwork you should address in your remote team. Introduction: What Caught Our Eye? RSI and general health when working with so much tech. More or Less 3 Jan Does Sweden Really have a Six Hour Day? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04n7vlg Pilar mentions Companies Without Managers, the episode from In Business that talks about the Buurtzorg model. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03045tx We talk about the introduction of Slack threaded messages and the importance of revising your communication norms; pros and cons for teams and communities. https://slackhq.com/threaded-messaging-comes-to-slack-417ffba054bd#.gx6t5ndmt Lisette mentions this episode 46 from The Future Work podcast https://thefutureorganization.com/forget-work-life-balance-its-all-about-work-life-integration/ If you would like to join Virtual Team Talk: https://virtualteamtalk.com/ Zoom's cash injection: http://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2017/01/17/ceo-announcement-zoom-partners-with-sequoia-in-100-million-funding-round-releases-zoom-4-0/ The Main Conversation: Simulating the office online, how we create the team agreement. What's infopresence? Culture in virtual teams. What is normal behaviour for our team? Diversity in teams. Reference to the earlier episode on Communication in Virtual Teams. http://virtualnotdistant.com/communication-remote-team/ How do we avoid basic misunderstandings by creating team agreements. Hosting pain-free online meetings where everyone contributes. "We're going into a new medium but we're not adapting." Giving and receiving feedback in remote teams. (You can listen to Lisette and Pilar's first ever conversation in Collaboration Superpowers episode 4.) http://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/4-humanizing-remote-work-pilar-orti/ "All mediums are not created equal." We also refer to the last episode on facilitating virtual meetings: http://virtualnotdistant.com/facilitating-virtual-meetings/ Showing appreciation. Find out more about Working from Anywhere: http://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/

Minter Dialogue Episode #220 — This interview is with Lisette Sutherland, an expert in remote work, and Director of Collaboration Superpowers. With her powerful workshop, Lisette helps corporations increase and improve distance work. In this conversation, we discuss the future of work, the differences between cultures in on-boarding remote work, and some of the keys to making the best remote working conditions. Meanwhile, please send me your questions as an audio file (or normal email) to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes to rate/review the podcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

In today's episode, Pilar and Lisette talk about what factors affect motivation in virtual teams - and indeed most teams.    Introduction It's a short one today. Maybe this mentoring group for managers of virtual teams is for you...  http://virtualnotdistant.com/virtual-not-distant-mentoring-group/ Would you like to join Virtual Team Talk? And, of course, many thanks to Saros Research. If you'd like to share your opinion and get paid for it (and you're based in the UK or Ireland), follow this link. https://www.sarosresearch.com/participate/join-saros-research/?id=100243   Virtual Coffee with Lisette: Motivation in Virtual Teams 07:00 mins Our Updates Lisette is going to be on Entrepreneur on Fire!!!! (Yes, you read right!) Meanwhile, Pilar is getting ready to launch two podcasts in August: En clave de podcast with Craig Wealand and 21st Century Management Some stuff that's happening in the Virtual Team Talk Group. (Wink to Mark Kilby and the Sketchtogether guys.) Lisette mentions this popular interview on her Collaboration Superpowers podcast: Leslie Truex's interview on Be a Work at Home Success 27:40 mins Our Conversation This is the article by Liz Ryan (@humanworkplace on Twitter) that inspired today's episode: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-kill-your-teams-motivation-without-really-trying-liz-ryan "Management should be a profession, not a promotion." Should managers be responsible for motivating their team members or should they just get out of the way? You need to know the individual. Self-determination theory and Daniel Pink's adaptation of it. What is at the heart of what motivates us to do a good job? "Motivation is a function of your environment." Technology plays an important part in motivation, as it is a key component of your environment. The role of leadership and management in being visible. Our own relationship with hierarchy. Managers beware... If you want to find out more about Dan Ariely's work on motivation. https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_what_makes_us_feel_good_about_our_work?language=en Visibility of our work in organisations. Barriers to making decisions and how to ask others for help.

Pilar Orti, the Director of Virtual, Not Distant, uses technology to strengthen connections between people. Lisette Sutherland is based in The Netherlands and is the Director of Collaboration Superpowers, a company that helps teams work together from anywhere. Lisette is also the remote team manager for the all-remote freelance team at Happy Melly.

Pilar Orti, the Director of Virtual, Not Distant, uses technology to strengthen connections between people. Lisette Sutherland is based in The Netherlands and is the Director of Collaboration Superpowers, a company that helps teams work together from anywhere. Lisette is also the remote team manager for the all-remote freelance team at Happy Melly.

Virtual Team Talk with Pilar Orti and Lisette Sutherland Pilar Orti, the Director of Virtual, Not Distant, uses technology to strengthen connections between people. Lisette Sutherland is based in The Netherlands and is the Director of Collaboration Superpowers, a company that helps teams work together from anywhere. Lisette is also the remote team manager for the all-remote freelance team at Happy Melly. You may connect with Pilar and Lisette at VirtualTeamTalk.com or via Twitter – @PilarOrti and @LightLing. Virtual team talking and co-working Pilar and Lisette started their collaboration through the 21st Century Work Life Podcast, a podcast on working in virtual teams. They started on another collaboration, Virtual Team Talk, a group of people from all over the world […] The post Virtual Team Talk with Pilar Orti and Lisette Sutherland appeared first on New Media Europe.

Podcasts about Podcasting and related. The Audacity to Podcast The Feed The Fizzle Show Rainmaker Authorpreneur Podcast Answerman Podcasters Group Therapy Podcasters Round Table She Podcasts Smart Passive Income New Media Europe and of course, shout out to Collaboration Superpowers!

Join the Blab debate on Social Collaboration, with Vanessa Shaw from the Human Side of Tech and Pilar on 23 Sept. Here's the link to the event. https://blab.im/ilbzla Pilar introduces the show and the question: can team members working in the office also feel isolated? Lisette shares how she's been receiving feedback on her book - another truly collaborative process! - and how she's been invited to speak at Agile Vietnam! (We mention the Virtual Coffee with Lisette promo, which you can check out at the beginning of one of the Collaboration Superpowers podcast.) Lisette loves working on her own so she finds this issue puzzling...   Working from home, not alone... Is socialising part of teamwork? Does social chat help make asking for help and feedback easier? http://www.lisettesutherland.com/2014/02/working-from-home-not-alone/   Social chat helps us understand each other and makes communication easier. One-one relationships need to be strong to combat isolation: find a collaboration partner. We mention this article by Sebastian Bailey: How to Beat the Five Killers of Virtual Working. http://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastianbailey/2013/03/05/how-to-overcome-the-five-major-disadvantages-of-virtual-working/ We don't always need video. The importance of having a process that brings you together.   You need a process OR an enthusiastic champion.   Can interdependent tasks prevent isolation? (Pilar mentions her Visibility in Virtual Teams Kindle book.)   There's no innovation if there's no communication.   The team can also become isolated from the business or organisation. Can this be prevented? Working Out Loud. How can we replicate not just the team talk around the water cooler, but also in the lifts, the canteen etc... Team agreement. Who's afraid of the big, new tools? Making sure everyone knows how to use (and is comfortable with) communication technology. Understanding your role in the team's achievements. Tips to combat isolation for those working from home. (Pilar refers quite a bit to this podcast on working from home.) What do we do when people just can't work from home?   Joke of the week: What's another word for Thesaurus?

Jeffry Hesse is an Agile Coach working at Sonatype. He is responsible for working with a fully distributed software development team of 40+ people, helping them to adjust their team process and iron out kinks along the way. Jeffry does this while traveling all over the world. We discuss what the team struggles with and how they make it work. For more stories (and to pre-order the Collaboration Superpowers boo) visit CollaborationSuperpowers.com.

Mario Lucero is an Agile Coach in Chile working with remote teams in the US. We talk about how important interaction, communication, good equipment and generosity are. He also tells us how it's the little things than can drive the biggest changes. For more stories (and for more information on how to pre-order the Collaboration Superpowers book), visit www.CollaborationSuperpowers.com.

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. http://www.nopantsfest.be/13:00 Lisette talks about her Collaboration Superpowers workshop. 14:30 Trust at work19:15 Why does video help to build trust? Likeability and the power of small gifts.27.40 Should we use "tricks"?30:48 Trust starts with ourselves. 33:40 Propensity to trust and our own experiences. 39:40 Retrospectives and addressing the breakdown of trust. LINKShttp://www.thefutureorganization.com/future-work-podcast-episode-4-charles-h-green-trust-future-work/http://www.apaexcellence.org/assets/general/2013-work-and-wellbeing-survey-results.pdfhttp://trustedadvisor.com/articles

00:30 Pilar talks about why meetings might be going wrong. ( 08:30 Virtual Coffee with Lisette. Lisette talks a bit about her book Collaboration Superpowers. 12:55 Facilitating Online Meetings and distributing responsibility to make the meeting succesful. 15:30 What can we do to make online meetings succesful? 24:36 Having a back channel to communicate. 32:11 Why are people not "present" in meetings? Engagement. 40:50 Does everyone read the handouts?   We mention a very funny video from 2014. Here's a link: http://virtualnotdistant.com/why-you-should-keep-conference-calls-down-to-a-minimum/ http://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/about-the-book/ http://virtualnotdistant.com/using-yammer/ https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/surgeons/surgical-standards/professionalism-surgery/gsp/documents/good-surgical-practice-pdf

Welcome to the first episode of the 21st Century Work Life podcast, a show created to look at how the world of work,and our attitudes to work are changing. In this first episode, I reflect on how much how we talk about work has changed - we are now ok with placing the words "happiness" and "work" in the same sentence! I also share with you Mark Trezona's thoughts and some tips on how we can move towards Happiness at Work. (Mark has made this subject his mission and he now delivers a Happiness at Work newsletter weekly.) For the second part of the episode I have virtual coffee with Lisette Sutherland. I met Lisette on the Internet, when she interviewed me for her site (and now podcast!) Collaboration Superpowers. Lisette will be making an appearance in this podcast every other week and in today's episode she shares her tips on how to create the best Work Holiday. Yes, you heard right. 00:30 Introduction02:50 Changes in attitude to work - talking about happiness at work. What does happiness at work mean?11.15 I read Mark Trezona's view on happiness at work and Martin Seligman's PERMA principles.20:40 Virtual coffee with Lisette: Work Holidays Pilar Orti blogs at virtualteamleadership.co.uk