Remote Working Part 2 – Effective working styles
The key reason people fail to succeed at working remotely is they fail to recognise the need for first class organisation and sustainable self discipline.
I have been operating remotely for more than six years since I first uncovered Quickbooks online an ‘on demand’ small business accounting software web application and was struck by the fact that if you can perform accounting online then why shouldn’t it be feasible to perform other key types of of work remotely?
Whilst working remotely has significant advantages there are numerous traps that people easily fall into which lead to issues that result in lower work output and lower motivation. The major reason for low work output from remote employees is distraction and it is a verified and well known fact that it can take a professional up to 20 mins to return to their original productivity level after experiencing a disturbance.
Deeper insights reveal that persons who are consistently subjected to disruptions are more likely to be susceptible to lower memory power and are prone to developing mental health problems in later life. We exist in an over communicated era and it is critical that you recognise the issues this causes before you decide to work remotely. When working remotely you have to do everything feasible to eradicate the probability of being distracted.
Here are the essentials:
1, Get a habit, tell everyone about it and rigidly adhere to it!
Good examples are a fixed time of day when you check or write and send mail and make or take telephone conversatiions. Before I began working remotely I used to get well over two hundred electronic mails over a period of twenty four hours. Now I think I am unfortunate if I get in excess of 4. To ‘restart’ my electronic mail experience I changed my e-mail address and tenaciously took precautions to protect the details being passed on to anyone. I then made sure everybody who I gave my e-mail address to, to use it with special care. I also set up an automatic reply that swiftly informed anyone sending me mail at what time of day I would be processing mail and if an e-mail required my immediate consideration to mark it as ‘Urgent’.
2. Get rid of alerts.
Disable absolutely everything that can send you a interruption. This includes mobile and
conventional phones and types of alerts from electronic mail such as visual alerts, warning sounds, display changes to your inbox list and of course facing a window. Get a door on your work place and put up a ‘do not disturb’ sign on it.
In ‘Remote Working Part 3 – Basic Toolkit’ I will reveal my favourite tools and software.
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