Remote Working Part 2 Self discipline essentials
Posted on September 21st, 2009
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The number one reason individuals fail to succeed at operating remotely is they fail to realise the essential requirement of superior organisation and sustainable self management.
I have been toiling remotely for more than six years since I first unearthed Quickbooks online an ‘on demand’ small business accounting software service and was inspired by the fact that if you can do accounting online then why shouldn t it be possible to perform other important types of work remotely?
Whilst working remotely has a lot of positives there are numerous traps that people easily fall into which turn into problems that result in decreased work output and lower motivation. The key reason for decreases in productivity in remote employees is interruption and it is a verified and well publicised fact that it can take a professional up to twenty minutes to return to their original efficiency level after experiencing a disturbance.
Research also shows that persons who are regularly experience distractions are more likely to suffer from decreased memory power and are prone to developing mental health problems in old age. We live in an over communicated society and it is essential that you recognise the problems this causes before you decide to work remotely. When working remotely you must do everything feasible to eradicate the probability of being interrupted.
Here s how I do it:
1, Get a consistent schedule, communicate it to absolutely everyone and rigidly adhere to it!
Good examples are a fixed time of day when you read or write and send e-mail and make or receive telephone calls. Before I began working remotely I used to receive well over two hundred e-mails every 24 hours. Now I think I am unfortunate if I get in excess of 5. To restart my electronic mail experience I altered my e-mail address and obsessively took precautions to protect the details being passed on to anyone. I then trained every party who I gave my e-mail address to, to use it with special care. I also configured an auto-responder that swiftly told anyone sending me mail my schedule for processing mail and if someone required my immediate attention to mark it as Urgent .
2. Get rid of alerts.
Disable every feature that can send you a interruption. This includes portable and
conventional phones and types of alerts from e-mail such as visual alerts, audible warnings, screen changes to your inbox list and of course facing a window. Get a door on your office and put up a do not disturb sign on it.
In ‘Remote Working Part 3 What should be in your tool box’ I will reveal my favourite tools and software.
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