Leading to Fulfillment - Episode Zero
Adventures in Businessing
While there will not be new episodes of Adventures in Businessing, we are excited to announce a brand new podcast. Here is a sneak peek with our episode zero. Leading to Fulfillment is a weekly 30 to 40 minute podcast that highlights the impact of People-First leaders and teams where fulfillment is the true measure of success.. In each episode James Laws has conversations with leaders, entrepreneurs, and other thinkers from all walks of life and kinds of businesses to find out how they think & lead differently and make decisions that lead to fulfilling work and fulfilled teams.
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Parting on Good Terms
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How to Get the Most out of Business Events
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The Importance of Business Events
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Planting, Protecting, and Propagating Your Culture
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Discovering Purpose
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What is Company Culture
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- [0:00:00] Episode Summary | Intro
- [0:02:25] Remote Work: Pros/Cons
- How we’ve done it, and how you can learn from our mistakes.
- There are options.
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- The pandemic has made a huge portion of people realize their jobs can be done from home.
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- Not everyone is going back to the office, and for valid reasons.
- The pros far outweigh the cons.
- Comfort and convenience go a long way toward being productive.
- [0:06:40] Why We Chose Distributed
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- We started as a completely co-located business.
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- Think 1/3rd....or 1/10th of Silicon Valley and you have the right idea.
- In late 2019 we decided it was time for a shift.
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- Being pre-pandemic, the thing that made us kick-off a new normal was quite simply that our office became less desirable.
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- And inconvenient parking (aka no parking) led to distributed considerations...seriously.
- We were always remote friendly, but more people started working off-site: from local coffee shops, gastro-pubs, their homes.
- We misunderstood business for productivity.
- Being co-located was actually instigating poor communication.
- Jeremy’s 15+ years of Distributed Work Experience
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- How his experience encouraged a dramatic change in where and how we conducted business.
- We also brought on a new team through an acquisition, which only further exemplified the need for this change.
- We chose distributed over hybrid for a reason.
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- We did attempt a hybrid approach for a brief time, but we were slowly learning that even it wasn’t the best People First fit for our business.
- [0:18:34] ...and then the pandemic happened.
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- Converting processes, communication, and our approach to clarity and collaboration had to be rethought and reconsidered from almost every angle.
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- And we continue to refine and iterate even now.
- There was a huge mental shift for James and Kevin in how they had to think about what they were doing, and how to lead a distributed team-- simply how to make it work.
- The dangers of the hybrid space stem from communication issues.
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- The people not co-located often pay for this by not receiving the clarity and collaboration that co-located team members were.
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- The answer was moving to 100% distributed.
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- Which we’ll unpack in the next episode of Adventures in Businessing.
- [0:24:31] Closing Thoughts, and one additional thing to NOT do if you plan to shift to distributed work.
- Don’t jump the gun, and try to plan out a timeline for what going distributed could/would look like, and how it might affect individuals, and teams, for better and worse.