Cam Findlay

Posts Tagged ‘remote leadership’

Not long to go now and I will be moving up to Wellington, NZ Capital.

What is most interesting is that I will continue to work in my current job, but remotely from my home office as I mentioned in an earlier post.

I have spent a bit of time working out all the finer details, now I have in place a pretty robust system and have schooled up the rest of the team at Rock Star Recipes on the finer points of digital communication to make sure we all keep in touch.

For any one interested in putting together there own Remote/TeleWork proposal and making a case for why it would be a good thing for you company to let you work remotely either part or full time check out all these links to blogs and articles I came across while researching to put together my proposal (and I even went as far as making a power point presentation!).

• http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/sep2007/ca20070918_304769.htm?campaign_id=rss_null
• http://www.readsolutionsgroup.com/2007/08/remote-leadership-when-you-cant-just.html
• http://webworkerdaily.com/2009/08/11/what-is-remote-leadership/
• http://www.worldatwork.org/waw/adimLink?id=34865
• http://telecommutect.com/employees/approval.php
• http://www.mannaz.com/mail.asp?mailid=62&topicid=583
• http://www.v3.co.uk/computing/features/2072443/vodafone-moved-mobile-environment
• http://www.workingfromanywhere.org/

I will post some more on a few of the key points I looked at in my proposal as well as an outline of what I included and maybe even a cut down version of my power point which might be of help to anyone looking into moving their role and presence into more 1′s and 0′s.

On another 1′s and 0′s note I have just started a pilot project looking into RackSpace’s Cloud Environment (which has become affectionatly know at work as “Cam’s House”). All going well I will post some of my findings and reccomendations if your looking to make your web hosting and delivery of content more cost effective!

Welcome back to 2010, it has been a while since I last posted anything Techy or Samurai related it reminds me how quickly we can go from leadership thinking to management thinking when one gets very busy (My company re-launched our flagship Guitar learning product Jamorama at the end of 2009 which didn’t leave me much time for blogging, a poor excuse I know!).

As it happens it looks like Julia (my partner) and myself are moving to Wellington! (NZ’s Captial City) for a change of lifestyle and a lot more Film and Television work for Julia.  So I am putting together a proposal to keep working at Rock Star Recipes but remotely!

Remote work and more interesting, remote or distance leadership is something I have become very interested in, how can we in 2010 with all the technology easily available to most businesses lead from a distance?  What are the challenges? How does communication, face to face time, company culture and atmosphere differ? I suspect a culture of great communication, trust and respect is key.

I’m hoping to document as much as I can while I learn more about this and also put my proposal forward to actually experience and work as a remote staff member and remote leader…

Perhaps we are coming to a point where there is no real difference whether someone is in the office or not as long at the end results are met and accountability is key. In the 80′s they called it “Tele-Communting” more recently it was dubbed “Tele-Work” (Perhaps to make it sound more like working for those managers who could not let micro-management go?) but I think going forward it will just be “work” as the technology and easy constant contact and communication from anywhere in the world becomes the norm.

More to come…

Oh, and for those who need their Technology and Ninja fix… check out the new Nexus One powered by Google Android.