Welcome to the

Remote Work Library

- an open and community-driven library for tools, practices, and elements of corporate culture for effective remote work. For individuals and teams. For full remote work, distributed teams and hybrid scenarios. Addresses all working modes: focus, collaborate, learn, socialize & serendipity, and rejuvenate.

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Trust and Effectiveness in Remote Teams

When working remotely trust within in a new team isn’t something that builds up naturally: Here are some research results and hands-on advice on how to foster swift trust in virtual teams and achieve better project communication and results.

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Mindfulness in remote work

Mindfulness is a key to personal satisfaction, but also to good relationships at work. If you are mindful, you will notice more quickly when you are tired, or when a meeting has ended with an ambiguity.

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Virtual Collaboration Spaces

Virtual Collaboration Spaces are the remote equivalent to offices and meeting rooms. You join those collaboration spaces to let serendipitous moments happen, get the awareness who is “in the office” right now, and for deep collaborative work.

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Virtual Coffee Breaks

Breaks are important. Whether at the water cooler, the coffee machine or the tea kettle: Taking breaks, especially together with your colleagues, is important. What usually just happens in normal office routine needs some assistance in a remote work situation.

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Remote Team Events

To keep up a great team spirit it is important to regularly meet with your team members – also in a remote work setting. But how can you do remote team events on a larger scale?

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Team Health Checks

Health checks are a special form of feedback from colleagues in the team or company regarding how they are currently doing: mental, satisfaction with processes, tooling and goals.

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Home Office Habits for psychological balance

Office work is usually structured. Working times and lunch or coffee breaks are by and large predefined, as well as the end of work in the evening. Habits structure the time around and enable different experiences and human exchanges: Encounters on the way to work, a drink with colleagues Friday evening, a common event in the company…

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Strategies to foster resilience in virtual teams

Due to the lack of personal interaction in virtual teams, it is more difficult to assess the personal situation and the social context of the other team members. This article shows some impulses how virtual teams can become more resilient in their teamwork.

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Digital Whiteboard

Whiteboard sessions are often the heart of creative processes and stimulate team flow. Digital whiteboards help to transfer this collaborative experience into the digital world.

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Online Retrospective

A Retrospective is an opportunity for the team to inspect itself and to create a plan for improvements to be enacted.

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Lose Your Guilt

Working remotely - especially from home - can be tough. You may not be as productive as you would have been in the office. But that’s ok!

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Optimize your WiFi

Bad WiFi can seriously drag down your working performance. There are some things you can fix by yourself.

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WiFi is good, cable is better

No video call without internet. Right. But why is it slow like in the 90ies even though you purchased a super broadband line from your internet provider?

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Chat Communication

Instant messaging tools simplify the communication in remote work settings if you stick to a few basic rules.

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Instant Feedback

Sometimes it is important to get feedback from colleagues during a meeting, workshop or in the middle of the working day. There are excellent tools for getting input quickly and easily.

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Telepresence

Being present without being physically on the spot? This happens with telepresence hardware.

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Remote Meeting Guideline

It’s hard to run effective virtual meetings. A remote meeting guideline provides guidance on how to keep them productive.

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Mob Programming

You know pair programming? Mob programming is similar to pair programming with the entire team.

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Collaborative Coding

Writing code in teams is always collaborative. But how to perform effective collaboration practices like pair programming or code walkthroughs in remote settings?

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Video Conferencing

Video conferencing is a fundamental technology in remote work settings. It brings teams close together even if there are huge physical distances in between.