Welcome & Introductions

I'm wondering what people's preferred methods are for being productive while working remotely? My husband can't work in the house - he has to head to Starbucks. I find I can be very productive at home when I (a) plan to tackle a project and (b) schedule mini-breaks. "I'm going to power through and finish X and then I get a lunch break before I start Y."  I also find playing the stereo helps me get creative and stay in the zone. I find the absence of interruptions from coworkers extremely liberating.

What are your tips and tricks?


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Teri Chadwick CFRE
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This is something we're in the middle of at my office. I don't work remotely regularly, but a number of the people in my department do and have found it much more productive. We're in the middle of our retrospective to gather feedback on how that's going and how to improve it for us. I'll try to remember to share what we've found when that's done.

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Rob Weidmann
Salt Lake City UT
rweidmann@gmail.com
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I'll be interested to hear what happens, and I suspect many others will, too!

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Dick Dillon
Innovaision, LLC
Saint Louis MO
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-03-2018 16:04
From: Robert Weidmann
Subject: Working Productively from Home?

This is something we're in the middle of at my office. I don't work remotely regularly, but a number of the people in my department do and have found it much more productive. We're in the middle of our retrospective to gather feedback on how that's going and how to improve it for us. I'll try to remember to share what we've found when that's done.

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Rob Weidmann
Salt Lake City UT
rweidmann@gmail.com
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Hi Teri,

I usually work in the office but I work from home time to time. In order to be productive, I just have to create a to-do list and complete the items one by one. I think being at home increases by productivity because I can focus solely on the task at hand. I am not distracted by the conversations in the office. 

Lawrence

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Lawrence Watkins
Advisory Consultant
Mergers & Acquisitions
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Chicago, IL
(312) 718.1271
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I work almost exclusively from home since I started my own business in 2011. I had another spell of remote working in the mid=2000's and was very productive. When I was required to work in an office again, I was amazed at the number of distractions (noise, people dropping by the office for no real reason ("How about them Cardinals?"), the UPS guy showing up when the receptionist was on break, etc. Not to mention that lunch, which at home was a 15 minute break, usually took over an hour just because there were no eating establishments nearby. 

I'll take home work any time.

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Dick Dillon
Innovaision, LLC
Saint Louis MO
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-04-2018 09:19
From: Lawrence Watkins
Subject: Working Productively from Home?

Hi Teri,

I usually work in the office but I work from home time to time. In order to be productive, I just have to create a to-do list and complete the items one by one. I think being at home increases by productivity because I can focus solely on the task at hand. I am not distracted by the conversations in the office.

Lawrence

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Lawrence Watkins
Advisory Consultant
Mergers & Acquisitions
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Chicago, IL
(312) 718.1271
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