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Living on both sides of this as a remote worker to my team and having to manage my remote team, here are my thoughts.
Start each day as if you were going to travel to an office. Set a start time for yourself and try to stick to it even on those '5 more minutes in bed' days.
End each day around the same time if you can, and make yourself stick to it. Once you start out of hours email replies and commits, people notice and that will become the new normal for you as far as they are concerned.
Stay in constant awareness of what is going on with the rest of the team. If you use agile and have daily standups then this gets a lot easier, but we use Slack all the time so it should always be open.
Be sure to reach out and connect with team members, there is nothing wrong with a little digital water cooler conversation now and again for everyone to feel connected.
Keep distractions to a minimum, don't be afraid to isolate yourself from everything around you even when you are home alone. It is too easy to see the mailman and run to the box, it can wait.
Pomodoro is indeed a wonderful thing for training the brain to stay focused regularly without burning out.
If you are at home, designate a place to be the office and don't let work stray out of it for too long, for example, leave the laptop there and don't take it with you at the end of the day to the couch.
If you manage people, schedule a recurring meeting once a week to just tag up with them in person as a one on one. That's what I do, that gives everyone a chance to discuss anything they want in a private conversation whilst at the same time keeping a scheduled discipline in place.
These are just a few thoughts.
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Living on both sides of this as a remote worker to my team and having to manage my remote team, here are my thoughts.
Start each day as if you were going to travel to an office. Set a start time for yourself and try to stick to it even on those '5 more minutes in bed' days.
End each day around the same time if you can, and make yourself stick to it. Once you start out of hours email replies and commits, people notice and that will become the new normal for you as far as they are concerned.
Stay in constant awareness of what is going on with the rest of the team. If you use agile and have daily standups then this gets a lot easier, but we use Slack all the time so it should always be open.
Be sure to reach out and connect with team members, there is nothing wrong with a little digital water cooler conversation now and again for everyone to feel connected.
Keep distractions to a minimum, don't be afraid to isolate yourself from everything around you even when you are home alone. It is too easy to see the mailman and run to the box, it can wait.
Pomodoro is indeed a wonderful thing for training the brain to stay focused regularly without burning out.
If you are at home, designate a place to be the office and don't let work stray out of it for too long, for example, leave the laptop there and don't take it with you at the end of the day to the couch.
If you manage people, schedule a recurring meeting once a week to just tag up with them in person as a one on one. That's what I do, that gives everyone a chance to discuss anything they want in a private conversation whilst at the same time keeping a scheduled discipline in place.
These are just a few thoughts.