EP003 - How to adapt your company to remote work with Iwo Szapar of Remote-How Academy
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How to adapt your company to remote work with Iwo Szapar of Remote-How Academy
About the episode
In this episode, we discuss remote work and how a company can adapt remote work policies to ensure remote work is a viable option for their employees. To discuss this, I invited Iwo Szapar from Remote First, a company specializing in remote work training for companies.
About the guest
Iwo Szapar is a Remote Work Advocate & Co-founder of Remote-how, the world’s leading platform for remote professionals powered by and for the community of 25,000+ people from 128 countries. Through various initiatives like Remote-how Academy or Virtual Coworking, together with the world's top remote companies like GitLab, Prezi, or Doist, Remote-how is on a mission to help everyone achieve freedom of choice where and when they work.
He has been featured by BBC, Forbes, or Bussiness Insider while advocating for the #remotework revolution. In his downtime, Iwo loves to write, follow global politics (which he tries to replace with cooking), and play with dogs.
Connect with Iwo on LinkedIn.
About the host
My name is Peter Benei, founder of Anywhere Consulting. My mission is to help and inspire a community of remote leaders who can bring more autonomy, transparency, and leverage to their businesses, ultimately empowering their colleagues to be happier, more independent, and more self-conscious.
Connect with me on LinkedIn.
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Quotes from the show
The difference between a leader and a boss is more apparent in a distributed team. There is a lot of groundwork to do in your management style next to transitioning to tools and processes.
One thing is for sure, that micromanagement is not the way when it comes to remote work. Not to mention the Zoom fatigue – people are sitting in meetings all day long and have limited time left for their actual work. In essence, the traditional office workways (which are also exhausting, by the way) will not work in a remote work environment.
Old school management style utilized tools such as phones, calendars, e-mails. These are just a few things from the legacy coming from the traditional office environment that needs upgrading.
You can combine the traditional and remote work locations in limitless ways.
Still, selecting the tool stack is the easiest part of your transition to remote work. There is plenty of work on the mindset, on the general level of trust, processes, and policies.
In the long run, even the most hart hatted managers will need to bow to the new waves of employment not to lose talented employees.
Process management and project optimization comes with one huge benefit: working less but smarter.
Remote work thought us how to manage projects online, how to collaborate online, and how to motivate our team online. All of these have one single benefit: increased productivity.
The goal for us now is to make sure we will keep this momentum for the long-run.