Pre-COVID…Boss to Employee: “Our company cannot survive with anyone working from home.”
Post-COVID…Boss to Employee: “Our company cannot survive without everyone working from home.”
Was your boss one of the many that didn’t allow remote work?
How’s that working out for them now?
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Well, it looks like Mask Shaming has become a thing…
I’m hearing from people personally and seeing posts on social media of people shaming others not wearing masks in public.
So, when all this started, the governments were like, “Don’t go out and start wearing masks, they don’t work.”
Then the governments were like, “Stop buying up all the masks, you’re depleting the supply for health care workers.”
Then the governments were like, “We don’t have enough masks for health care workers and we’re engaging companies to adjust manufacturing processes to make them.”
Now the governments are like, “We recommend everyone wear a mask when in public.”
This week, Laredo TX, the first in the US to do so, made it illegal for people to be in public without a mask — up to a $1K fine. LA in CA instituting the same rule today.
Oh, by the way, Laredo only had 18 confirmed cases when they passed that ruling.
Suddenly, anyone not wearing a mask has become a pariah in the community.
Good luck finding a mask!
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How’s your internet service holding up during these times?
We live out on our horse ranch, north of San Antonio TX. I wouldn’t say that we live in the country, but we’re certainly not in any city limits.
Right now, internet service is massively important.
And honestly, our service could be a lot better.
Last night, we were doing a group mentoring session over Zoom and my connection was horribly unstable and kept dropping.
How many other people are finding their internet service has become their Achilles Heal during these trying times?
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Do you have a lot of connections , but not a lot of interaction?
Not all connections are created equal.
What type of person are you on LinkedIn?
隸♂️ Super User. You are online all the time. Posting at least daily; like, comment, and share all kinds of stuff; and you respond to messages and comments.
履♀️ Lurker. You read other people’s posts, but hardly ever post or respond. You’d rather be a silent participant on LinkedIn than active.
Absent. You have a profile, but you never use it. Occasionally, you might update it, but you don’t look at your messages or your notifications and you have no pulse online.
Ways to identify what type of connections you have.
1. Send them a birthday greeting or congrats on job changes and promotions. See if they ever respond.
2. Look at their Activity on their profile. If the section is blank, you can see this person doesn’t participate much.
3. Check the recency and completeness of their profile. No picture, limited details, etc. Probably not active.
4. Number of connections. Less than 500? Obviously not using LinkedIn to connect with the world.
Who cares?
Are you using LinkedIn to connect with people on a deeper professional level or just to build a connection count.
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So, are you being positive through this or are you being negative ?
This morning, I woke up to a really negative post on LinkedIn about people being positive in this crisis.
He was complaining about people “predicting” what business will look like after this is over and how things will change.
His mantra was that this will last a long time and the world will be in ruins, so everyone should stop being positive and predicting the future.
Funny, but isn’t that what he’s doing … predicting the future?
However, his prediction was one of doom and gloom over positivity.
How about you right now?
16 days ago, we had our first day of over 1K of confirmed cases.
Everyone pretty much started working from home about that same time.
Yesterday, we had our largest number of confirmed cases, but the incubation period is 14 days. So, that’s not a huge surprise.
Look at China. On their worst day, their confirmed cases spiked to over 15K and then significantly dropped off.
Since then they’ve practically eliminated confirmed cases.
I’m going to continue to look to a positive future.
How about you?
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Ok work-at-home warriors, what routine have you established or are you still struggling to figure it out?
When we go into an office every day, we normally have a pretty specific routine.
We wake at a certain time.
☕ We have our morning coffee, maybe a light breakfast.
We get the kids off to school.
♂️ We try to navigate the morning traffic at a certain time.
We get ourselves situated in the office for the day.
Well, for many of us, that routine is gone right now.
So what’s the new routine you’re putting in place, or are you trying to keep the old one?
Are you struggling with your routine right now?
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How will businesses change as a result of the coronavirus?
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Are you looking to increase and improve your use of LinkedIn during this pandemic crisis? 濫
Here is a LinkedIn-specific Sunday Success tip.
All connections are not created equal.
The connections you want are connections that will engage with you and expand for network.
Pick a specific type of connection you want — let’s use Purchasing Agent as an example.
Type “Purchasing Agent” into the search bar and then select “People” as a filter.
This will give you a list of people with Purchasing Agent in their job title.
Then, check each person out and see how many connections they have and if they have any Activity.
If they don’t have any Activity, then they’ll probably never read your stuff and clearly won’t engage with you.
Choose your connections wisely.
Send a personal invite to those that look like they will engage.
Have a great Sunday!
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How will our world change due to the coronavirus ⛑ crisis?
My Predictions:
More people will find remote online employment versus employment in a brick and mortar business.
Businesses will also move more to remote workers and reduce their costly footprints.
Homeschooling is going to step up for sure.
If teaching K-12 remotely works, people are going to question the public burden of costly infrastructure–we might see physical campuses simplyngo away.
Grocery and supplies delivery will significantly increase.
People will store more nonperishable food and consumables in their homes.
Expect more home downsizing.
Eating at home and healthier will increase.
The streaming video industry will grow significantly to serve much more people — things like movie theaters will decline.
Trust in government will hit the single digits.
Your thoughts?
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How do you quickly become an expert at work? 👨🎓🚇 And what does a subway have to do with it?
I’ve been in subways before, in Washington, DC, and in Paris, France. So, I have some experience with them.
However, the subway in New York City definitely provides a different level of understanding and expertise.
I took a little time to study the subway map and to research online how to navigate the subway.
This allowed my wife and I to be able to effectively navigate around town over the last two days. Numerous times, my wife was lost or would have got on the wrong train, but I was confident and got us where we needed to be.
Last night, she commented on my ability to quickly learn the system and get us around easily. The trick, she pointed out, was that I took a little bit of time to learn about the system.
Trust me, there’s no better school than doing something, as there were things I continued to learn riding the subway. But, I knew enough to start and be successful and that helped me learn from there.
How do you quickly get up to speed on something and how does it work?
Any tips or tricks you would care to share?
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