Why The Way We Work Doesn't Work - Tara Powers

In this episode, we welcome Tara Powers as our guest. Remote work and home office have become quite a thing during 2020. But guess what, it isn’t new at all. Tara could be called already a Virtual Teams Veteran as she has worked on this scheme of work for decades. With her book “Virtual Teams for Dummies” she was in the bestselling charts long before the pandemic hit us, and many of us were forced to work this way out of the blue when offices and physical workspaces were shut down. Today, I talk with Tara about her new book Working from Home, how to establish an authentic connection in a remote working environment, and what it means to have permission to be fully human at work. QUESTIONS AND VIEWS HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS EPISODE Personal challenges for Tara Powers during 2020 How remote work will look in the near future Can we establish an authentic connection in the virtual space? The human part in work is widely ignored Boundaries & Availability while working remotely How to detect, tackle, and overcome conflict within virtual team settings Change behavior for real habits Well-being as an economic driver EXCERPTS YOU MIGHT WANT TO JUMP IN [00:00] Intro [07:20] What hast change working remotely in 2020? [29:13] Permission to be fully human at work [46:10] Taking out the guesswork when it comes to human relations [56:00] How to work with intercultural tendencies Flash Hub provides tools, workflows, and skills to hire freelance experts and set up your first team in a matter of days. Develop virtual leadership skills, solve the digital agency hamster-wheel issue, and build freelance teams with ease. We have selected best practices and the most helpful skills you need to work smart, less, and grow a digital business that is easy to sustain you can work on from virtually anywhere. Visit FLASH HUB to get free access to the virtual business builder training. Learn how to build, grow, and scale your business with virtual teams and global freelancers in this free training. For our English-speaking community. This is an English episode and you can find the transcript of this conversation now in more than 20 languages, on our Blog, at HappyScribe Public, or watch the video with subtitles for this episode on our YouTube Channel. You'll find all the links in the show notes below. 🔗 LINKS & HINTS IN THIS EPISODE Find out more about her newest publication Working From Home For Dummies Get your copy of Tara’s Book Virtual Teams For Dummies Visit Tara’s consulting company Powers Resource Center Follow her on LinkedIn Follow us on Facebook and engage in our daily discussions: ✅ FACEBOOK: Connect with us on LinkedIn: ✅ LINKEDIN: Support Virtual Frontier show on Patreon: ✅ PATREON: Find the transcripts to this episode on Happyscribe: ✅ HAPPYSCRIBE: Drop us a message: ✅ PODCAST EMAIL: [email protected] ✅ BLOG: