Archive for the ‘Productivity’ Category

The Top 10 Strategies for Managing Mobile Workers

Posted by Meikah Delid March 12th, 2009

First the facts: According to IDC: U.S. mobile workforce expected to grow to 73% of total U.S. workforce in 2011. Across the world 30.4% of the workforce will be mobile in 2011. [Source: IDC, Worldwide mobile worker population 2007-2011 forecast, Doc #209813, December 2007] According to Nemertes: Nemertes estimates that the number of virtual workers [...]

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Managing with Differing Systems

Posted by Meikah Delid March 12th, 2009

Yet another challenge in managing people is the different systems of PC. This is not a problem with workers in an office because all PCs and equipment in the office are usually of the same specifications. Even the ISP is not an issue. Differing systems become a problem when your people or teammates are working [...]

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The Buck Stops Here!

Posted by Meikah Delid February 17th, 2009

As a project manager, or any other kind of  manager for that matter, this is always the case. You hold responsibility for everything even the shortcomings of your team. So whenever somebody questions the performance of any member of my team, I feel defensive. That is because I feel that I have been remiss in [...]

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Time Warp?

Posted by Meikah Delid November 7th, 2008

Time and time difference: two factors that can make a big impact on a remote work setting. You and your team live apart from each other. You work independently. A team member may work on his tasks by himself in the little corner of his house, in the park, in a coffee shop, or wherever [...]

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Using “Capture Tools”

Posted by Meikah Delid October 20th, 2008

Have you also been told to write down your dreams or wishes for them to come true? Well, it’s true. Somehow when you put down all your ideas, see and read them on paper, you get a vision of them and the ideas become doable or achievable. This is what David Allen, productivity consultant and [...]

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