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Books : Computers & Internet : Business & Culture : Telecommuting
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My secret plan to move to Venice was ready. It was time to see if my wife would buy into the idea of leaving our home to live for an entire year in a foreign country.
And thus the journey begins - Barry and Debbie Frangipane, a middle-class couple tired of the rat race leaves it all for the lure of Venice. But can they make it in a foreign land? Read about the hilarious twists and turns their lives take during their year in the city of water, as they show us a Venice we never knew existed. The Venice Experiment is about fulfilling dreams on a journey that any of us could make - but would we?
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Imagine starting your workday in sweat pants, sipping a freshly brewed cup of coffee as your maneuver your commute down the hallway to your home office. Sound appealing? This is how millions of people start their days in the world of telecommuting, and it can be your reality too.
The Field Guide to Telecommuting is a book for potential, new and seasoned telecommuters. Formatted to read as an ‘ala carte guide, it captures data from numerous sources including other telecommuters, employment agencies, human resource professionals, government sources and personal experience to create an easy-to-view format that can be read from cover to cover or in relevant sections. Useful to both those who telework for a single company or are freelancers, The Field Guide to Telecommuting offers valuable tips, links to resources and explanations of terms, laws and issues that surround the world of telework. In addition, purchase of this e-book includes free access to a webpage of updated resources, and PDF version of the guide and checklists to help steer you through the maze of creating a functional telecommuting experience.
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"Work At Home Now is the ultimate guide for teleworkers. Its smart, practical advice and trove of great resources and tips will be valuable to anyone hoping for the freedom and challenge of working at home."
--Daniel H. Pink, author of Free Agent Nation and A Whole New Mind
"America's ultimate expert on work at home"
--Woman's World Magazine, on Christine Durst
"A must-read for anyone considering a home-based job."
--Fortune Magazine, on The 2-Second Commute
"Chris and Mike know the home-based career arena better than anyone I've met."
--Jeannie Lopez, Core Compliance Expert, Spouse Employment and Volunteer Program, United States Air Force Academy
"Chris and Michael know from personal experience about working virtually."
--BusinessWeek
Many legitimate home-based jobs and projects can be found online, but trustworthy guidance is scarce. Worse, with a 56-to-1 scam ratio in work-at-home ads, the terrain is a minefield of fraud.
Nevertheless, customer service agents, researchers, test scorers, tutors, writers, and concierges are just a few of the many people regularly hired to work from home. A growing number of Fortune 500 companies, including UnitedHealth Group, American Express, and Northrop Grumman, also hire home-based personnel.
In Work at Home Now, you'll learn:- The top insider tips on good and bad Go
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Global business demands and new technologies have created a virtual workplace for many companies, with employees and teams routinely collaborating from distant geographical locations on the road, from home, at client sites—even on the other side of the globe. The Distance Manager provides practical information and tools to help managers bridge the communication gaps created by geographical separation, and get peak performance from employees they rarely see. This handbook is perfect for sales managers, project team leaders, senior managers, and anyone who manages people at more than one location. Key topics include:
• Using e-mail, teleconferencing, and videoconferencing for maximum effectiveness
• Mastering the people skills required to manage from a distance
• Virtual team building, and strategies for managing multiple locations
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Escape the cube. Ditch the commute. It?s not just a dream anymore.
Many people already spend 12 hours a day getting to work, working, getting home from work. Here?s some good news: thanks to advances in technology, acceptance of outsourcing, the trend towards corporate flextime, and other factors, working from home is easier than ever.
Good Morning America?s Workplace Contributor Tory Johnson and consumer advocate Robyn Freedman Spizman tell readers exactly how to turn today?s cultural change to their advantage without giving up an income. Specific business plans will teach them how to:
? Take their current position home
? Find a new company whose policies will allow them to work from home
? Reseach a product they believe in, and sell it from home
? Start their own business, doing something they love, for a minimal initial investment
With real-life stories, a step-by-step plan, resource guides, and lists of scams to avoid, this is the book that will help readers finally make the leap??and show them that they don?t have to give up their family, creativity, or peace of mind to earn a decent salary.
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Examines the revolution in electronic communications. This book explores the social and financial consequences of this change and should help people to take advantage of its opportunities and to avoid being destroyed by its impact.
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From the founders of ClassyMommy.com and MomGenerations.com comes the ultimate guide to helping moms build successful careers at home by doing what they already do online—just better.
To work or not to work—it’s the toughest question for most mothers today. But Audrey McClelland and Colleen Padilla have found the coveted “middle ground,” creating successful careers from home via the Internet. They’ve literally Skyped, blogged, vlogged, tweeted, and Facebooked their way to the top—and in this eye-opening book they show other moms how to find success through these seven basic steps:
1. Find your passion.
2. Hang a digital “shingle” and start typing.
3. Find your tribe.
4. Make opportunity knock and learn how to answer that door.
5. Manage the Benjamins.
6. Don’t forget the children!
7. Live happily ever after by living your values.
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More and more women want to work from home, earning money while spending more time with their children and taking control of their lives. But they need help finding the best work-at-home jobs. And once they have the job they want, they need to know how to make it pay. This comprehensive bible shows women: how to find the job that best fits their needs; set up a home office; get organized and schedule your daily business tasks; avoid distractions such as kids, food, and television; and more. As work-from-home situations become an option for more women, they?ll reach for this handy guide to find the road to success.
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Get solid collaboration from team members in remote locations
Globalization and new technologies have made team collaboration from distant geographical locations—on the road, from home or client sites, even on the other side of the globe—a routine part of business. Managing these teams requires new skills and sensitivities to maximize team and organizational performance.
Emphasizing pragmatism over theory and offering helpful tips instead of vague observations, Manager’s Guide to Virtual Teams helps you bridge the communication gaps created by geographical separation and get peak performance from employees you rarely see. You will learn how to:
- Keep team members in remote locations motivated and involved
- Coach for peak performance via e-mail, telephone, teleconference, and videoconference
- Help widely scattered team members understand their contribution to the business
- Build consensus for decisions among virtual team members
- Learn effective communication and feedback techniques for enhancing team performance
Briefcase Books, written specifically for today’s busy manager, feature eye-catching icons, checklists, and sidebars to guide managers step by step through everyday workplace situations. Look for these innovative features to help you navigate each page:
- Clear definitions of key terms and concepts
- Tactics and strategies for managing virtual teams
- Tricks of the trade for executing effective management techniques
- Practical advice for minimizing the possibility of error
- Warning signs for when things are about to go wrong
- Examples of successful virtual managing
- Specific planning procedures, tactics, and hands-on techniques
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The mere suggestion of employees working from home is enough to make many managers sweat. Faced with the prospect of managing an employee they can't even see, many discover that their managerial style just doesn't work anymore. As an increasing number of jobs can be executed from home, managers must learn how to adapt their leadership style to cater to remote employees.
Based on years of research, The Virtual Manager provides any manager with the tools he or she needs to successfully work with virtual employees. Trust us: it's not like managing office-bound employees! This book is a tell-all user manual for a new generation of managers.
To stay competitive in a global marketplace, it is essential to incorporate virtual employees into talent management strategy. The Virtual Manager arms managers with the knowledge they need to be become effective virtual leaders, including actionable advice on how to:- Leverage the top engagement drivers for virtual employees
- Develop or alter policies and procedures to fit virtual employees' needs
- Impact business outcomes through a flexible work strategy
- Leverage the top engagement drivers for virtual employees
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Paul and Sarah Edwards have completely updated their bestselling home-office guide to meet the needs of today's millions of small-business people. This comprehensive update of America's premier guide to home-based employment features complete and easy-to-follow advice on: ? equipping and computerizing the up-to-date home office; ? funding your venture--and staying out of debt; ? keeping your work and personal life separate; ? making cyberspace work for your individual business needs, and much more.
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Whether you're working at home, on the road, or in any other nontraditional work arrangement, here's what you'll need to set up, survive, and thrive in the virtual office. Alice Bredin, the leading authority on the virtual office, gives you expert advice on:
* Getting there--choosing the right business idea, negotiating for telecommuting, and selling your family on your new workstyle
* Organizing yourself--structuring your environment, setting up a virtual office in your home or car, dealing with a satellite office situation, choosing and finding the best technology
* Maintaining your virtual office--staying in the loop when you're not in an office, keeping in touch when you're on the road, generating business, finding free publicity, adopting the habits of highly successful virtual office workers, maintaining contact with the office or customers, communicating effectively via technology
* Surviving--creating and maintaining work/life balance, working at home with kids, avoiding overwork, making sure your accomplishments are recognized, learning to take vacations, staying away from the fridge, being a good boss to yourself
Whether you are contemplating this new work arrangement, actively in transition, or firmly entrenched in this workplace revolution, this comprehensive guide is your key to success in your new working environment.
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If you are trying to understand how to make money on eBay without spending a lot of money in inventory, this book is for you. My name is Charity Cason, and this is my story of how I was able to make a great income on eBay simply by visiting my local thrift stores and garage sales. Selling on eBay does not have to be difficult and time consuming. You can make hundreds or even thousands of extra dollars each month by selling on eBay, but only if you understand how.
This book will not only give you the proper, down to Earth information about selling your items on eBay, but it will also tell you what doesn't sell. Charity Cason gives you her personal stories of items that she bought and resold for massive profits. There is no "theory" in this book. It is a no fluff, real guide that explains how even a complete newbie could get started and sell items on eBay before the week is over.
For more free tips, visit Charity's blog at CharityCason.com.
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In the global marketplace, people can work practically anywhere and anytime. Managing the Mobile Workforce shares stories about organizations that have taken the risk to unleash--literally--their workers from the chains of daily commutes, 9-to-5 business hours, and the same old cubicles they have sat in day after day, year after year, and even decade after decade.David Clemons, an entrepreneur within the enterprise mobile and online training industry, and Michael Kroth, an expert and author on how leaders can create highly motivating work environments, together deliver rock-solid guidance on the essentials for building, leading, and sustaining a highly productive virtual workforce. Clemons and Kroth present the real-life relationships between managers and employees through interviews of thought leaders and executives that will engage your thinking about how the right leadership, combined with technology, can make all the difference.
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Tools, tips, and strategies for hiring, training, supporting, and motivating the modern mobile workforce
IDC has estimated that mobile workers worldwide will surpass one billion by 2011. This isn't just a trend, but the direction that business is heading. Managing the Mobile Workforce gives managers and executives at all levels key essentials for coping with this new reality, empowering them to create, su
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In Managing Telework, Jack Nilles illustrates that telework is undeniably the corporate wave of the future on a global level. Telework, or telecommuting, a term coined originally by Nilles, means basically moving the work to the worker instead of the other way around. Although there are both risks and opportunities involved in managing a virtual workforce, the opportunities usually far outweigh the risks. As Nilles explains, the key to a successful virtual workforce is making the best use of those opportunities through proper planning and the development of an appropriate management style. Management philosophy, style, and technique constitute the foundation of this indispensable resource.
Managing Telework provides crucial information on every part of the telecommuting process. Nilles first explores the issues of selecting the right type of telecommuter-candidates who are likely to be effective workers without the structured environment of the office-and how to find or make proper workplaces for an effective telecommuting program. He then goes on to discuss that central, often unspoken managerial fear of telecommuting: the threat of losing control. Nilles explains that leaders, not administrators, are the key players in successful telecommuting, and that leadership can be taught. There must also be a basis of trust between the worker and the manager, and constant, open communicat
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A bigger and bigger part of the workforce is telecommuting. And managers need new skills to get the most out of this increasingly far-flung staff. This indispensable guide includes case studies, checklists, and sample forms and charts. It shows managers how to use teleconferencing technology to communicate with distanced workers, make the best use of scheduling software to monitor productivity, and even end the arrangement if it's not working.One of the best ways for companies to save money in lean times is to send their employees home to work. But that requires a different kind of workforce and a different kind of management. This book shows how to make the long-distance relationship work for everyone!
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As rush-hour commutes get longer, you can guide your organization to telecommuting and the advantages it offers to employer and employee. Here's a book that explains all of the challenges and pitfalls and assists employees in moving their offices home. Checklists, sample policies, legal documents, and questions help individuals determine if the home office is where they belong.
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The Work From Home Handbook is a lifesaving resource for anyone with a horrendous commute, anyone who wishes for a flexible schedule or more time with familyanyone who dreams of going to work in pajamas
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Virtual working is a fact of life as companies manage teams of individuals dispersed on sites across the country or around the globe; take increasing advantage of improving technology and software to telecommute and teleconference; and begin to think about the human element in disaster recovery.
The key to successful dispersed working is not technological expertise, but a clear understanding of what it takes to get the enterprise ready for virtual work, and of the skills for bonding individuals into cohesive, high-performance teams across distances and differences.
This book provides that guidance - through work charts, vivid "composite" examples, definitions and actual cases - and shows how the technological tools support and expand the options for collaboration.
It answers such critical questions as "What makes working virtually work?", "How do we start?", "How do you develop new leaders in a virtual environment?", "What skills do virtual managers and team members need?", "How do you determine how ready they are?", "Which technologies are most appropriate for your purposes?", "What’s the impact on existing systems and structures?"
This book is an indispensable practical guide and reference for virtual team leaders, HR managers, CEO’s and trainers. It will also be suitable for professional certification and business courses in organizational development.
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Telecommuting can have a tremendously positive impact on an individual's quality of life, productivity, and peace of mind. But all of the advantages are contingent on being a well-informed telecommuter. Author Debra Dinnocenzo offers specific strategies for successful telecommuting that will enhance effectiveness and prosperity, both personal and professional. Easy-to-implement suggestions offer ways to transfer the knowledge and take the steps necessary to change and improve relationships, processes, resources, and systems, at work and at home. Sections address working well alone, with the family, with a team, and with external partners.