561: The Ultimate Guide to Working Remotely with Lisette Sutherland
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 9 April 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
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.
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— 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 Needs
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 561. |
| 0:22.0 | Are you doing some more remote working these days? |
| 0:25.8 | Well, there's a lot of that going around by necessity. Hope you're staying safe, |
| 0:29.2 | and healthy and well. And Lissette has some real excellent pro tip. |
| 0:34.2 | She's been doing this for decades, |
| 0:36.2 | researching the tools and building the tools |
| 0:38.7 | and codifying and sharing knowledge |
| 0:40.6 | and winning awards for her books |
| 0:42.0 | that share the knowledge about remote work. |
| 0:44.0 | So we hunted her down. |
| 0:45.2 | She was in the Netherlands and we had a great chat. |
| 0:47.8 | So I think you will appreciate her wisdom. |
| 0:50.9 | You'll learn one, the remote worker hierarchy of needs. |
| 0:53.4 | Two, smarter alternatives to online meetings. |
| 0:56.0 | And three, three tips for managing distractions |
| 0:59.0 | while working remotely. |
| 1:00.6 | And if I may, you'll also learn just a boatload of tools in terms of hardware, software, |
| 1:04.7 | tools, gadgets, peripherals, things that can make things work better, even though it's not all |
| 1:10.3 | about the tools, which we discussed that too. |
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