by Joanie Connell | Mar 8, 2020 | Blog, Flexible Work, Leadership, Remote Management
How do you lead your employees who work from home? How do you manage a virtual team? What are the best virtual communication hacks? Two important challenges arise when we ask our employees to work from home. First is the technology challenge and...
by Joanie Connell | Oct 24, 2019 | Blog, Communication, Employee Engagement and Retention, Leadership
Remember when computerized communication technology first came into being? If you’re too young to know what that was like, it was magical! We went from waiting impatiently for the mail carrier or staying near the phone to receiving emails and texts in minutes or...
by Joanie Connell | May 29, 2018 | Blog, Technical Leaders
As an engineering student, I missed out on certain parts of the education that my friends seemed to get in college. I took the requisite number of core courses, like English and social studies, but my curriculum was mostly filled with science, math, and...
by Joanie Connell | Apr 7, 2015 | Blog, Leadership, Remote Management
A colleague told me just today that a client paid for him to travel to have face-to-face meetings because they believed the results were much higher quality than phone meetings. After he flew all the way across the country for a few hours of meetings, he said it was...
by Joanie Connell | Oct 21, 2014 | Blog, REAL Life Skills, Remote Management
It’s really becoming clear how unhealthy it is to sit at your desk all day and type on your computer. “Sitting is the new smoking” I’ve heard on more than one occasion. Do I want sitting to cause me to have an endlessly miserable old age? Right in the center of middle...