The Cranky Middle Manager Show #002
The Cranky Middle Manager Show #002 (MP3 - 31.4MB - 34 min 30 sec)
The Telecommuting Show
Welcome to The Cranky Middle Manager. Do you manage people who work from home? Do you have a manager who stays safely in the office while you dodge telemarketers? Then this episode is for you. We talk to Gil Gordon who has been writing about telecommuting for years. He’s even in the Teleworkers Hall of Fame…didn’t know they had one did you?
1:00 The Quote of the Week- from Anthony Trollope- how big an issue was telecommuting in 1882 anyway?
6:10 3 biggest challenges for managers of teleworkers…and one of them is a gift. (Gee thanks)
10:15 Why worry about managing your teleworkers…you’re not doing that good a job with the people you have there…
13:00 3 Skills managers HAVE to acquire
16:10 Gil dares to challenge one of my assumptions
20:30 Are Teleworkers losing out by not being underfoot?
25:00 What are the warning signs that something’s not right?
28:30 Bullet Points… Gil nets it out
33:00 A shameless plug for a future show with a cool guest and a politically incorrect reason to telecommute.
Folks, please let me know if there are books we should read, people we should talk to or subjects we should cover…. I’m cranky but not insensitive
WWT