by Lisette Sutherland | Jun 30, 2015 | Community Management, Employee Engagement, Online meetings, Remote Working
In college, I was a member of a student group where each meeting began with a short opening question. I didn’t know anything about meeting facilitation at the time, but I remember liking that part of the meeting. Fast forward to when I became a manager leading a...
by Lisette Sutherland | Apr 7, 2015 | Experiments, Podcast
I have taken the month of April off from scheduling meetings, giving presentations and workshops, and doing interviews. The plan is to focus primarily on writing the book: Stories Of Remote Teams Doing Great Things Because I’ve put the interviews on hold, I...
by Lisette Sutherland | Sep 17, 2014 | Remote Working, Virtual Friendship
I met Abe at a party in 2006 and we’ve been close friends ever since. We have a lot of things in common, but one of those things is our mutual obsession for music. From the first day we met, we we’ve been sharing music. And we quickly started doing that on...
by Lisette Sutherland | Apr 13, 2014 | Collaboration, Community Design, Remote Working
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending a conference in a virtual world with AgileBill Krebs. We started by meeting in a virtual office in Sococo and then we headed over to Second Life to attend part of the Virtual Worlds: Best Practices in Education (VWBPE)...
by Lisette Sutherland | Mar 25, 2014 | Retrospectives
I spent last week in Switzerland taking a ski touring class where we learned the essentials of off-piste skiing, how to avoid avalanches, how to find people in avalanches, how to plan a ski tour, etc. I don’t know what it is exactly about being in the mountains...
