Why as employees work at a distance (even if it is based in the office)

There is plenty of advice available on how to work well with a remote computer, but ignores it. It is not for you after all. You and your colleagues sitting a few feet away daily.

But wait, Sasha Rezvina blogged recently iDoneThis. In fact, that the teams can share the building still learning tons of best practices from those who collaborate worldwide.

No, you will not start Skype offer to a colleague, the two offices or down (unfortunately) the planning team meetings in exotic locations. Rezvina emphasized that traditional computers can learn how to effectively share information dissemination.

Do you really need to interrupt a colleague?

The simple fact is that the problems of the time zone and other non - aligned plans, often remote - Team members can not ask the others for help when they need information about specific items. This may seem a great way to work this disadvantage, but actually requires Rezvina stresses that remote computers to be about much more thoughtful, how the information is shared, in the long run leads to greater efficiency.

"Information about other vocation causes unnecessary friction in your workflow and disabled directly global productivity. Every time someone touch on the shoulder, to take what we need, a whole culture is more important than what they do. Bother to where no one hesitate to their colleagues for their own needs to interrupt it creates, "he wrote.

Instead may have remote computers, whether at all to work to quickly reach all trends information hoarding and options to store all the information found necessary when all the time it is available to everyone. Perhaps your co-located team should consider something similar into consideration?

Document as a remote computer.

All you need to do is a common program like Evernote, select a method or Quip road and commit to document everything, explains Rezvina. Only you decide who documented what, give them the full responsibility for how to achieve it, and then play with the system until it works for all.

Do this right and you will not only avoid constantly interrupting each other - "documentation prevented the guards ... each employee can access these meeting notes, customer e-mails, or even at home working policy without worrying about the to look after the son of a staff, "he wrote Rezvina - but will also ensure that your computer is on the same side in the process, the mission and even values.

But the great literature is not the only thing Linked teams can learn from their distant brothers. In the rest of the thoughtful contributions he explains Rezvina other lessons should teach teams distributed to waste for autonomy contracting and how so much time in meetings. Check.