Remote Working Part 1 – The essential guide to working from anywhere (Intro)
Obviously not everyone can work remotely as many types of employment require us to go to their place of work or travel to perform their duties in person. But for those of us are allowed to work remotely then I thought it would be useful to share what I have learned and share some practical directions by distributing it on the net with the sole objective of providing useful advice for adapting to remote working or managing remote workers.
I must tell you you that there are many self proclaimed ‘gurus’ on the net who will try and sell you courses for preposterous sums of money, believe me you don’t need to do this.
I am blessed to be allowed to work in whatever location I choose and just about everybody who asks me what I do for a living wants to learn how I manage to work remotely. Don’t be mislead here I am still perfecting the art of remote working as each day I come across people on the Internet who show me new approaches and I am constantly uncovering new packages and methods that make my life simpler and increase my productivity.
During the past 7 years I have steadily adapted my working methods to allow me to do just about all of my work remotely with a box of online tools and rigid self discipline. One late night whilst exploring the web I found Quickbooks online and this opened my eyes to what just might be possible. The discovery of ’hosted’ ‘on demand’ small business accounting software was inspiration for me and the launch pad of my ‘remote working journey’.
I should tell you up front that effectively working remotely is as much about the software as it is about self management. Working remotely also means getting across to your co-workers, superiors and customers as to what they can expect and how they will keep in touch with you.
In ‘Remote Working Part 2 – Things you should know about managing yourself’ I steer you through how to focus.
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