Virtual Teams: Different voices, shared professional practice #PressEdConf19

We are excited to be joining #PressEdConf19 for a session that explores a conversational post format can be used to support reflective practice. We share tips from an ongoing year long project discussing the move to a distributed team and discuss the pros/cons of openness and share ideas to try yourself. The idea for the […]

Virtual Teams: Special #femedtech podcast edition – Promoting equality in a distributed organisation

Hello and welcome to this month’s post on leading a virtual team. In this post (cross-posted here) the two of us, that is Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) and Maren Deepwell (@marendeepwell), continue our series of openly sharing our approach to leadership. If you are new here, you can catch up on earlier posts and podcasts or […]

Curating #femedtech (trying not to be an arsehole)

I’m at the end of curation slot for #femedtech/@femedtech, a volunteer network for feminists in Edtech. In this post I want to share why I wanted to curate this network and some highlights from my 2 weeks. To take you back to the beginning or my own personal journey, inequality is a topic I’ve been […]

When things get personal

Virtual Teams: When things get personal

Hello and welcome to this month’s post on leading a virtual team. In this post (cross-posted here) the two of us, that is Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) and Maren Deepwell (@marendeepwell), continue our series of openly sharing our approach to leadership. If you are new here, you can catch up on earlier posts and podcasts or […]

Special podcast edition: Reflecting on the first year leading a virtual team

This post continues the series on openly sharing our approach to leading a virtual team – a joint project with Maren Deepwell (cross-posted here) for which we write a monthly blog post and this time recorded a podcast for you, too. What a year… With the transition to becoming a distributed organisation and one year […]

Virtual Teams: Checklists, kindness and Secret Santa – nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more

This post continues the series on openly sharing our approach to leading a virtual team – a joint project with Maren Deepwell (cross-posted here) for which we write a monthly blog post. November This month we discuss checklists, how each of our staff invented their own scale to rate their week and treating others with […]

Virtual Teams: Remote crisis

This post continues the series on openly sharing our approach to leading a virtual team – a joint project with Maren Deepwell (cross-posted here) for which we write a monthly blog post. October This month we discuss ways in which we could develop our approach to virtual team leadership including dealing with critical incidents when […]

Virtual Teams: The serious upsides of working in pyjamas

This post continues our series on openly sharing our approach to leading a virtual team – a joint project with Maren Deepwell (cross-posted here) for which we write a monthly blog post, some of which are special podcast/conference editions. September This month we discuss some of the more serious upsides to home working. Maren: We’ve […]

Virtual Teams: Pizza and virtual team dynamics

This post continues our series on ‘openly sharing our approach to leading a virtual team’ – a joint project with Maren Deepwell (cross-posted here) for which we write a monthly blog post, some of which are special podcast/conference editions. August We are at the end of the busiest month of our organisation’s year in the […]

Virtual Teams (Special podcast edition): Reflecting on the first six months leading a virtual team

This is a joint post with Maren Deepwell (cross-posted here) about how we, as senior staff, lead our organisation to adopt virtual operations. You can read previous posts in this series. We’re six months into our journey and in this special edition we look back at the highs and lows, share practical things we’ve learnt […]

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