The Digital Workplace Podcast
by TheDigitalWorkplace.com
Work is changing faster than ever. New digital tools have enabled the hope of a better future. But that future isn't promised. First, we have to put in the hard work. We must completely redefine 5 core elements of work: technology, collaboration, productivity, leadership, and culture. The Digital Workplace hosts conversations that help your journey to become a Level 5 Digital Workplace. We need all of us to get much better at work.
Episodes
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Sheela Subramanian - How the future works
The future of work is on your doorstep. Accepting it brings all sorts of changes, but they lead to a better world of work.
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Ali Greene - 5 things the experts disagree about for remote work
Ali Greene is the co-author of Remote Works and has been a remote manager since 2014. She and Neil talk about 5 things that even the experts don't fully agree on.
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Ana Neves - You’ve got cash just laying around your workplace
Knowledge management has changed as the workplace has gone digital, and it's become even more important
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Liam Martin - More collaboration is not the answer
We've been taught that more collaboration is always better. But that's making digital work very noisy. Should we have a different goal?
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Phil Simon - This is what life after email looks like
Email dominated digital collaboration for two decades. What will work look like after email isn't the king?
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Chinedu Eleanya - Can you plan serendipity? Can you afford not to?
Serendipity happens automatically in an office, but not in a digital workplace. What can leaders do to create the conditions for serendipity to occur?
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Mary Beth Oakes - The future of office furniture is more interesting than you think
The office isn't dead by a long shot. It may have fainted, but it has a chance for a great rebirth.
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Luke Thomas - Building a new home for digital work
Digital work is great, but it doesn't have a centering home like the office. Luke Thomas tells us how Friday looks at the core objects of work and supports digital teams.
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Lara Hogan - A new kind of manager for the digital age
Lara Hogan is training managers for a new age. Old expectations and mindsets for managers in the office won't work anymore, and managers need new skill sets to support the humans around them.
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Steven Rogelberg - Great meetings as a competitive advantage
Meetings don't just have to the cost of doing business. If we approach them as stewards of time and prepare and close well, they can give you a great advantage.
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Chase Warrington - Why Doist built Twist
Do async teams always need tools that support their async practices?
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Danielle McDowell - Co-working space isn’t just for startups anymore
How should digital workplaces reorient the way they use physical space? Why do people need to be together in the same location? A peak into the future of space in the digital age.
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Sarah Devereaux - How good is your team at collective decision making?
Most teams either freeze up and delay decisions, or defer to one person's call. There's a much better approach out there, but you may not be ready for it yet.
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Daphnée Laforest - What do nearly all leading remote work companies have in common?
There's a reason that companies like Automattic, Gitlab, and Elastic have mastered distributed work.
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Kartik Mandaville - The journey to become an asynch company
When the pandemic hit, shifting to Zoom wasn't enough. In fact, it was worse. Kartik Mandaville took the next step to build a better digital culture.
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Darrian Mikell - You aren't using audio for all it's worth
Audio is often skipped over in collaboration. But it's actually one of the most human options we have.
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Brett Caldon - Reducing the noise of the digital employee experience
An employee's digital life is full of lots of noise. What direction should you be moving to make it more seamless?
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Stephen Hoelper - Virtual brainstorming isn't all that bad
Stephen Hoelper has been in global companies long enough to know the actual problems of digital work, and they aren't what you think
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Jana Axline - Everyone’s a digital project manager now
Project management isn't just a skill that a few people need. Everyone needs to upgrade their approach to digital projects.
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Stefan Behrens - The opportunity for stand-out digital companies
There's quickly going to be a large divide between companies that say they are hybrid, and those that really do digital well.
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AJ Loiacono - No one can break the company, and other lessons in trust
AJ Loaicono is on his third stint as an entrepreneur, and he can see beyond the muck that most people face. Learn how he's adapted to create a great digital workplace.
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Nicky Hoyland - The goal of digital is experience + personalization
Digital tools offer a great chance to offer a personalized experience, but we often end up with one-size-fits-all drudgery.
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Alison Martin - Unlocking mentoring for a digital workplace
Unstructured mentoring doesn't reach the people it can really help. Mentoring in a digital workplace can bring people closer together.
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Sahin Boydas - How to make the leap to remote teams
Remote work is en vogue, but it hasn't become any easier. Sahin Boydas has been optimizing for remote work for years.
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Erik Nicolai - The big challenges of a modern workplace
Centralized apps or decentralized? In-office or remote? Strong or distributed leadership? Erik Nicolai walks us through the big challenges.
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Randy Herbertson - The linear nature of digital conversations
When all communication moves online, it changes the way we interact with each other. Randy Herbertson explores ups and downs.
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Vonda Page - The many ingredients for the perfect change
Digital changes can create whiplash for many if you aren't careful. Vonda Page has been walking people through change since the fax machine.
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Robin Rosenberg - Virtual reality is next level training
To build true empathy and understanding you need to walk a mile in their shoes. Or Oculus headset.
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Bob Pulver - The constant challenge of upskilling
There feels like a permanent chasm between the skills we need on a team and those we have. Bob Pulver has a plan to bridge that gap.
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Crystal Washington - How agile are your team’s digital skills?
Keeping up with tech trends is tough for anyone, but especially for a whole organization. How can you keep your team up to speed?
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Ray Wang - Digital transformation won't get you there
Looking to the future, just digitizing your databases and processes isn't enough. You've got to see the big picture.
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Alpha Zhang - Can Google Workspace be the now and the future of work?
Google's office tools brought us into the present. Will they be the ones to carry us into the future?
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Jason Averbook - The now of work, not the future
The issues we think are the future of work are actually very present. Jason Averbook says we need to start with now.
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Nick Turner - It takes a community to build a company
Nick Turner started DeliverEnd to help make personal deliveries safer. But to scale it, he had to build a full community.
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Mary Miller - Find the future of work in janitorial services
Tech companies don't corner the market on where the future of work should go. JANCOA is a leader with their human-first approach.
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Laurie Ruettimann - A new way to look at employees and bosses
The employee-boss relationship hasn't changed a lot since the early 1900s. Laurie Ruettimann shows us what needs updated.
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Lindsay Tjepkema - Think like a marketer for internal communication
We stress a lot over how we communicate with customers, but what about our teams? There's more options than ever, and leaders need to think like marketers.
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Tanmay Vora - The challenges awaiting digital leaders
Leadership wasn't easy before the pandemic. But in a digital age, new problems require new solutions.
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Joey Camire - Designing for cognitive diversity
As we redesign the workplace, remember that not everyone thinks like you. We need a diversity of tools to make everyone feel at their best.
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Humphrey Chen - What do we do with all this video?
Businesses create more video content than ever before. And yet we never watch it. What if we could make video more user-friendly?
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Heidi Hanna - Stress is out of its cage
Stress is healthy when it's restricted to certain places and times. But when everything around us is stressful, we can't recover.
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Dan Jimenez - Overhauling your approach to PTO
Unlimited PTO is great. Except that no one takes it. Learn about Chatbook's experiment with MTO.
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Dana Brownlee - What if my boss is the problem?
Digital teams are just as dependent on the personality and weaknesses of bosses as any other. Dana Brownlee helps us think through how to adapt and also confront racism as a team.
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Christina Hynes Mesco - Are you ready for the digital version of sexual harassment?
Sexual harassment is alive and well in the digital age. Are you prepared to deal with the new challenges?
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Henrik-Jan van der Pol - You have to work hard for strategy alignment
It's hard to get a digital team aligned without a lot of clarity around the purposes and strategy of the team. Perdoo founder Henrik Jan van der Pol weighs in.
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Nina Hersher - Digital wellness is a real thing
As we cozy up with technology around the office, we need to recognize good digital hygiene and help team members thrive in a digital world.
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Paul Datta - The unintended side effects of digital tools
A digital workplace is not about the technology, it's about the people. How have we messed this up, and how can we fix it?
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Vivian Chan - Building a team of high caliber talent
Working with highly talented people doesn't mean managing egos. You can still be a good human and be amazing.
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Kaleem Clarkson - Is that hybrid? Or telecommuting? I'm so confused.
As people slowly go back to the office, there are a lot of issues to sort out. But it's even harder than it looks.
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Deidre Paknad - Growth drag in a digital workplace
A digital workplace should be moving at a quick pace. If you notice that you've got some drag, the first place to look is your alignment.
About this show
Work is changing faster than ever. New digital tools have enabled the hope of a better future. But that future isn't promised. First, we have to put in the hard work.
We must completely redefine 5 core elements of work: technology, collaboration, productivity, leadership, and culture.
The Digital Workplace hosts conversations that help your journey to become a Level 5 Digital Workplace.
We need all of us to get much better at work.
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