Rethinking Remote: Go Beyond “Dialing In”

March 14, 2020 MJ Petroni

As many of you know, Causeit helps leaders get ready for the digital age.

While we normally focus on the far future, today’s circumstances with COVID-19 mean that many people need to work from home, move major events online and find new ways to communicate with clients—and need to get that set up right away! We figured we’d do our part by helping our network rethink what ‘remote’ can mean.

As cyborg anthropologists and mindset transformation leaders, we’re very aware that working remotely isn’t as simple as hopping on a conference call. And not all kinds of work can be done remotely. The good news is that there is a slew of new thinking and new technologies ready to help. And how you rethink ‘remote’ during this crisis may well help transform your workplace for the better, forever.

Starting Monday, Causeit is offering a free webinar and content series called Rethinking Remote.

The series is designed to help you think through the shift from physical to online work (and events) so you can minimize the impact of social distancing and travel bans on your ability to collaborate.

Every few days in the coming weeks, we’ll post a new article on how to succeed with remote working, virtual offices and online events. Follow @causeit on Medium, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to stay in the loop—and please share these articles with your networks if you find them helpful.

Everyone is welcome to join. We think these sessions will be especially relevant for:

Professionals whose work relies on communicating and collaborating with distributed teams
Managers whose teams are (or may soon be) shifting to remote work without much time to plan or prepare
Individuals who are “working remote” for the first time
HR leaders who are responsible for creating, communicating, or deploying remote work and social distancing plans
Consultants, event producers, and public speakers
Visit www.causeit.org/events for details and registration links or see below.

Each session will include:

Key mindsets for successful remote work
Steps you can take now
Recommended tools and best practices
Prompts for conversations with your colleagues, clients and partners

Please share this email with your networks. This is an opportunity for all of us to level up our thinking with new ways of working together that will continue to be valuable long after the current crisis has passed.

See you soon, and take care of yourselves, your families and your neighbors.

MJ, Jessica and the rest of the Causeit team

Upcoming Events (if no events shown, check below)

See this gallery in the original post

Recordings will show up on YouTube.com/causeitinc — follow there to stay up to date

CREATE YOUR REMOTE WORKPLAN—AND COMMUNICATE IT (RIGHT AWAY) March 16 @ 1PM PT:
Register for webinar | article coming soon

COVID-19 MEANS RETHINKING ONLINE EVENTS: Going beyond "dialing in" March 17 @ 9AM PT:

Read more about rethinking online events in our article here: https://medium.com/@causeit/covid-19-means-rethinking-online-events-going-beyond-dialing-in-1c70b7f0de44

SHIFTING OUR THINKING FOR REMOTE WORK March 18 @ 1PM PT: Register here:

CREATING YOUR ONLINE OFFICE: RETHINKING 'REMOTE' March 19 @ 1PM PT

HOW REMOTE WORK IMPACTS COMPANY STRATEGIES AND GOALS March 20 @ 1PM PT

HOW TO BE GREAT AT REMOTE WORK WITH THE TOOLS [YOU MAYBE DIDN'T KNOW] YOU ALREADY HAVE register for webinar (date TBA) | article coming soon