Work From Home TIps

a. Be aware of your role and the precise results expectation

b. Understand the compliance, quality and production

c. You are being measured not monitored 

d. Understand what constitutes above or below average results 

e. Work is performance not placement 

a. Assess your circumstances and context

b. Analyze all aspects of your situation

c. Create a strategy for your projects that fit your situation

d. Anticipate flexibility and compromise. 

f. Find your best working times and situation

a. Amend your outlook – there are obstacles, but times have changed

b. Understand what works for you

c. Adapt to the new opportunity 

d. Situate your work in a manner best for you

e. Don’t look to yesterday to solve your challenges of today or set up your tomorrow

f. Take advice with grain of salt… company/management aren’t experts otherwise they would have already done work from home 

g. Be prepared to problem solve 

h. Become an expert at your job

i. Be innovative, report on your own success

j. Be accountable and a brand ambassador 

a. Do your best to not interrupt yourself. Turn off social notifications and self inflicted distractions

b. Remember you were always distracted in the office

c. Distractions at the office began hours before showing up at the office 

d. Focus on managing your distractions not eliminating them

e. Use your situation to minimize or work with distractions

a. Understand WFH is the model of how your kids/family will be learning and working 

b. Use this as an opportunity to learn and teach the growth and progression of society and the workplace 

c. Include the kids and the family in your workplace development and invite innovation from them to build successful rituals focused on results 

d. Forget segrigaton of duties.  Your life was in your office.  Your work should be in your life. Integrate your work with your life. Find solutions and success thorough total life experinces

1. Focus on your result expectations 

2. Move from monitor to measure

3. Employees are not the enemy. Everyone is a custodian of the organization with various roles to fill

4. Each employee is hired and trained as a specialist. Trust the specialists (employees) to perform or discuss with HR why you have reservations about how they do their process 

Tips that continue from the office 

5. Results are seen in the work, not the wardrobe

6. Be flexible 

7. Understand the results 

8. Look to consistently evolve 

9. Support and feedback are key responsibilities 

10. Communicate richly 

11. No one should be surprised with performance 

12. Create “franchise” model with performance and process outlines 

13. Authority is not meant to be “over people” but to affect change 

14. Focus on improvement and innovation 

15. There will always be poor performers, no matter where they sit. Create strategies to address the inevitable