Vista 360 de Porto Alegre
http://www.auroraimagens.com.br/tour/portoalegre/
sábado, 20 de outubro de 2012
quarta-feira, 10 de outubro de 2012
Trabalho remoto é diferente...
Why Remote Workers Are More (Yes, More) Engaged
Who is more engaged and more committed to their work and rates their leaders
the highest?
A. People who work in the office
B. People who work remotely
If you picked A, you might be as surprised as the investment firm I worked with recently, which found in reviewing results of a 360-degree feedback process that the answer was, in fact, B.
The team members who were not in the same location with their leaders were more engaged and committed — and rated the same leader higher — than team members sitting right nearby. While the differences were not enormous (a couple of tenths of a point in both categories), they were enough to provoke some interesting speculations as to why this might be happening.
It made perfect sense to me, though. Here is why:
Proximity breeds complacency. I've worked with leaders who sit in the same office with those they manage but go for weeks without having any substantive face-time with them. In fact they may use e-mail as their primary source of communication when they sit less than 50 feet away. It's even worse if they sit in different parts of a building — or all the way on another floor. This is not to say that these leaders are in any way lazy — just that because the possibility of communicating is so easy, it is so often taken for granted.
Absence makes people try harder to connect. When I managed a team of professionals in nine different locations, I made a point of deliberately reaching out to each of them by phone at least once a week, and frequently more often. I'm not an anomaly here. Most leaders I work with make an extra effort to stay connected to those they don't ordinarily run into. They can see that taking even a few minutes to talk about what's happening in their respective worlds before addressing the tasks at hand makes a difference in maintaining the connection with a colleague. What's more, because they have to make an effort to make contact, these leaders can be much more concentrated in their attention to each person and tend to be more conscious of the way they express their authority.
Leaders of virtual teams make a better use of tools. Because leaders of far-flung teams have to use videoconferencing, instant messaging, e-mail, voicemail, and yes, the telephone, to make contact, they become proficient in multiple forms of communication, an advantage in leadership that their traditional counterparts could well develop but not so automatically.
Leaders of far-flung teams maximize the time their teams spend together. Having had to make such an effort to get the team together, these leaders naturally want to make the best use of their precious time. They take care to filter out as many distractions as possible so they can focus on the work to be done together. They also typically spend more than an ordinary work day together, socializing at planned luncheons, dinners, and activities. This level of focused attention is hard to replicate day to day. I've heard from some employees who work near their bosses on teams whose other members work elsewhere that the most time they spend with their leader is when the others come in for such meetings.
None of this is to say that working remotely is better than coming to the office. Or that virtual teams are better than traditional ones. On the contrary, I'm suggesting that they are exactly the same this regard: Someone working in the same office with their leader needs just as much effective communication as someone located in a different office. It's just that, ironically, they're less likely to get it.
A. People who work in the office
B. People who work remotely
If you picked A, you might be as surprised as the investment firm I worked with recently, which found in reviewing results of a 360-degree feedback process that the answer was, in fact, B.
The team members who were not in the same location with their leaders were more engaged and committed — and rated the same leader higher — than team members sitting right nearby. While the differences were not enormous (a couple of tenths of a point in both categories), they were enough to provoke some interesting speculations as to why this might be happening.
It made perfect sense to me, though. Here is why:
Proximity breeds complacency. I've worked with leaders who sit in the same office with those they manage but go for weeks without having any substantive face-time with them. In fact they may use e-mail as their primary source of communication when they sit less than 50 feet away. It's even worse if they sit in different parts of a building — or all the way on another floor. This is not to say that these leaders are in any way lazy — just that because the possibility of communicating is so easy, it is so often taken for granted.
Absence makes people try harder to connect. When I managed a team of professionals in nine different locations, I made a point of deliberately reaching out to each of them by phone at least once a week, and frequently more often. I'm not an anomaly here. Most leaders I work with make an extra effort to stay connected to those they don't ordinarily run into. They can see that taking even a few minutes to talk about what's happening in their respective worlds before addressing the tasks at hand makes a difference in maintaining the connection with a colleague. What's more, because they have to make an effort to make contact, these leaders can be much more concentrated in their attention to each person and tend to be more conscious of the way they express their authority.
Leaders of virtual teams make a better use of tools. Because leaders of far-flung teams have to use videoconferencing, instant messaging, e-mail, voicemail, and yes, the telephone, to make contact, they become proficient in multiple forms of communication, an advantage in leadership that their traditional counterparts could well develop but not so automatically.
Leaders of far-flung teams maximize the time their teams spend together. Having had to make such an effort to get the team together, these leaders naturally want to make the best use of their precious time. They take care to filter out as many distractions as possible so they can focus on the work to be done together. They also typically spend more than an ordinary work day together, socializing at planned luncheons, dinners, and activities. This level of focused attention is hard to replicate day to day. I've heard from some employees who work near their bosses on teams whose other members work elsewhere that the most time they spend with their leader is when the others come in for such meetings.
None of this is to say that working remotely is better than coming to the office. Or that virtual teams are better than traditional ones. On the contrary, I'm suggesting that they are exactly the same this regard: Someone working in the same office with their leader needs just as much effective communication as someone located in a different office. It's just that, ironically, they're less likely to get it.
segunda-feira, 6 de fevereiro de 2012
Bela opção! Home Office...
Gostei!
Uma bela opção para um escritório em casa. Uma "unidade autônoma"...
http://www.officepod.co.uk/officepod/
Bem que poderia fazer parte do kit home office da Dell :-)
Uma bela opção para um escritório em casa. Uma "unidade autônoma"...
http://www.officepod.co.uk/officepod/
Bem que poderia fazer parte do kit home office da Dell :-)
quarta-feira, 15 de junho de 2011
200 anos de evolução
Interessante o vídeo mostrando o avanço dos países nos últimos 200 anos em relação a expectativa de vida e renda per capita. Legal ver a evolução, mas...
http://sorisomail.com/email/129446/200-paises-200-anos-4-minutos.html
...se pensarmos que as expectativas de crescimento populacional são de quase 50% até o ano 2050, é de questionar se a curva não começará a descer. Imagine a SUA CASA com 50% a mais de pessoas. Falamos de 50% a mais de TUDO: inclusive comida e ar para respirar! Onde este povo todo vai morar? Quem vai produzir e em que espaço? Água potável e energia?
Preocupante o caminho que estamos seguindo.
http://sorisomail.com/email/129446/200-paises-200-anos-4-minutos.html
...se pensarmos que as expectativas de crescimento populacional são de quase 50% até o ano 2050, é de questionar se a curva não começará a descer. Imagine a SUA CASA com 50% a mais de pessoas. Falamos de 50% a mais de TUDO: inclusive comida e ar para respirar! Onde este povo todo vai morar? Quem vai produzir e em que espaço? Água potável e energia?
Preocupante o caminho que estamos seguindo.
domingo, 6 de fevereiro de 2011
Uma das questões mais frequentes em sala de aula tem relação com softwares substitutos ao MSProject. Esta questão é levantada tanto por questões de custos de licenciamento quanto pelo uso de plataformas não Microsoft por alguns alunos ou mesmo por suas empresas.
Navegando pela WarePrise.com – Articles, Advice, Tips and Reviews on the Latest Enterprise Software encontrei um post bem interessante, contendo dados de Plataforma e as Funcionalidades Chave de 12 (doze) ferramentas livres para Gestão de Projetos.
Tomei a liberdade de listar as ferramentas e ajustar alguns links (estão quebrados na matéria), bem como adicionar uma ferramenta a mais na lista.
Segue link para a matéria na WarePrise: 12 free tools to manage project timeline and milestones e a lista de ferramentas com os links validados:
Achievo
Basecamp
Comindwork
dotProject
gantter
GanttProject
huddle
jxProject
Open Workbench
OpenProj
PHProjekt
ZCOPE
Zoho
Adiciono na lista também o GANTTzilla
Após a lista acima, não há desculpas para não usar uma ferramenta ;-)
Abraços
Navegando pela WarePrise.com – Articles, Advice, Tips and Reviews on the Latest Enterprise Software encontrei um post bem interessante, contendo dados de Plataforma e as Funcionalidades Chave de 12 (doze) ferramentas livres para Gestão de Projetos.
Tomei a liberdade de listar as ferramentas e ajustar alguns links (estão quebrados na matéria), bem como adicionar uma ferramenta a mais na lista.
Segue link para a matéria na WarePrise: 12 free tools to manage project timeline and milestones e a lista de ferramentas com os links validados:
Achievo
Basecamp
Comindwork
dotProject
gantter
GanttProject
huddle
jxProject
Open Workbench
OpenProj
PHProjekt
ZCOPE
Zoho
Adiciono na lista também o GANTTzilla
Após a lista acima, não há desculpas para não usar uma ferramenta ;-)
Abraços
sábado, 5 de fevereiro de 2011
Sevilla em HD
Mais um link de visita virtual.
O site abaixo tem uma foto em 360 graus da cidade de Sevilla. Até aqui nada demais, mas o fato da foto ter 111 gigapixels permite fazer impressionantes zooms e ver uma riqueza de detalhes interessante.
Segue link: http://www.sevilla111.com/
Abraços,
Fábio
O site abaixo tem uma foto em 360 graus da cidade de Sevilla. Até aqui nada demais, mas o fato da foto ter 111 gigapixels permite fazer impressionantes zooms e ver uma riqueza de detalhes interessante.
Segue link: http://www.sevilla111.com/
Abraços,
Fábio
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011
Vaticano em 3D
É de fato interessante as possibilidades que a tecnologia nos oferece.
Não é novidade nenhuma passeios em 3D por locais mundo a fora, já visitei virtualmente vários deles. Como infelizmente ainda não conheço pessoalmente o Vaticano, este passeio virtual me chamou a atenção pela riqueza de detalhes e imponência.
The Vatican you have never seen before!
Aproveite, passeios virtuais ainda são gratuítos ;-)
Não é novidade nenhuma passeios em 3D por locais mundo a fora, já visitei virtualmente vários deles. Como infelizmente ainda não conheço pessoalmente o Vaticano, este passeio virtual me chamou a atenção pela riqueza de detalhes e imponência.
The Vatican you have never seen before!
Aproveite, passeios virtuais ainda são gratuítos ;-)
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