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How and When to Use Video Messaging at Work
Unlike a video meeting, video messaging doesn’t require your recipient to be present to consume your message. In other words, you can express nuanced and complex ideas whenever it’s most convenient for you — no need to bog your day down with endless context switching or feel pressure to articulate your ideas in real time.
How to Build Company Culture With Video Messages
Video messaging isn’t just for more effective work (although it’s great for that, too), but exchanging looms has become a critical part of how we have fun and build camaraderie among our teams.
How Brandwatch Uses Video to Build Remote Work Culture
Video is key to creating a communication-centric work environment. This is especially true at Brandwatch, where we are transitioning from global offices where everyone came to a physical workplace to being a remote work-optimized culture. As government guidelines continue to shift and it’s not advised for people to come into the office, most of us are working from […]
How Asynchronous Communication Improves Synchronous Meetings
As the team behind Hugo, the leading meeting notes platform, you won’t be surprised to hear that we love meetings. But what may surprise you is that one reason we love meetings is because we don’t have many. Using asynchronous communication instead of real-time meetings can dramatically improve the efficiency of your company, but how […]
11 Effective Communication Skills in the Workplace
As a company that spends a good deal of time thinking about effective communication, we’ve compiled our top, practical, real-world takeaways for interacting in the workplace.
Quick Tips From Loommates: Capture High-Level Details In Short Video Messages
When teams grow fast, it can be hard to keep tabs on what everyone works on from each week. As a brand designer, along with trying to catch up on what design projects my teammates have in progress, I also want to stay connected with them and our broader design cohort in an increasingly digital […]
20:VC Podcast: 3 Key Rules To Operate Remote Teams Successfully
After listening to many of his episodes and feeling like I knew him, I had the pleasure of finally meeting Harry Stebbings. What a gem of a human. We got to have a chat for his podcast, The Twenty Minute VC. Check out the episode here. We covered a range of topics, including: The 3 rules to […]
A Curated List of the Best Remote Work Websites & Resources
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are struggling to make the shift from co-located offices to remote work environments — a transition that under normal circumstances, would take a year or so to implement. Needless to say, these are hardly normal circumstances. Most people and organizations who are offering advice about remote work right […]
3 Steps to Improve Communication in the Workplace
Communication is an under-supported aspect of our workplace interpersonal dynamics, often dismissed as a nebulous “soft skill.” Many job descriptions, for example, state a preference for “excellent communication skills,” which can carry an abundance of meanings, or call for proficiency in written and verbal communication. This doesn’t do much to acknowledge the nuanced nature of […]
11 Tweaks to Fine-Tune Your Remote Work Routine
The internet does not need another remote tips round-up. Those of us who have been thrust into full-time remote work are well aware we need to schedule breaks to avoid burnout, practice good Slack and Zoom etiquette, and take measures to separate work life from home life when working from home. Thank you. Yes. We’re […]
How & Why Loom Adopted Asynchronous All-Hands Meetings
Although the term “asynchronous meeting” may sound like an oxymoron, how many meetings have you sat through that could have just as well been a Slack message or email? Probably too many, considering how much much meeting time is spent on one-to-many information dissemination. More than 31 hours per month are spent in unproductive meetings, and […]
How to Explain Complex Ideas
How do you explain a complex idea — simply and so anyone can understand it? While you’ll find plenty of existing resources on how to break down complex concepts in a way your audience can understand, it’s harder to come by advice about which channel is best for communicating your message in the first place. Should […]
Why Trust is the Key to Your Remote Work Strategy
At different points in my career, it’s felt like there exists an underlying belief that “time in office” correlates to “work effort” — such as one manager’s guidance to “be aware of the bad optics of leaving before five” or leaders suggesting that “the people who tend to get into the office earliest are usually […]
How to Build Better Relationships With Your Remote Coworkers
It’s no secret that building positive relationships with your coworkers will make your job more enjoyable and help you succeed professionally. But like any relationship, developing trust, respect, and a shared understanding with your team doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time to establish a rapport with coworkers, and it can be an even greater challenge […]
How to Make Onboarding Remote Employees Personal and Scalable
The hunt for your next talented teammate is done! They’ve signed the offer and you’re feeling good because all the hard work is now over, right? Well, it might not be time to put your feet up quite yet. Training your new hires is critical to ensure their success. Over the past 3 months, we […]