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You need to work online from anywhere , and in this episode , I am sharing with you a nugget that I captured from my interview with Greg Kaplan , who , at the time , was CEO of Remote Year . He's , at the moment , chief Marketing Officer Interim Chief Marketing Officer with Cameo as I record this particular podcast , but , as I said , he was with Remote Year .
He was CEO of Remote Year at the time . I recorded the segment that you're about to hear , and in this segment , he talks mainly about some of the the tech that he and his his teams use .
So I think it's really useful , because often we can get uh , overwhelmed and really pontificate about the best tech to use when , at the end of the day , it's all about keeping it straightforward , keeping it simple .
So I thought I'd just share this little nugget with you and see what you think , and anywhere you are , you have to be , way outside , not to be able to have a really strong connection at this point to the internet .
So it's things that you'd expect . It's Zoom or you know maybe other video conferencing tools . Slack is great . We spend a lot of time on Slack . Obviously , it's a tool that's got to be used correctly , or else you could waste a lot of time chatting in Slack and emojing and sending giffies all day . But Slack is a great tool if you use correctly .
Obviously , email as well , but we like to also have people come together and we have budgets for people to come together once a year and meet in person , which is a really great way to get to know each other and build trust , so that when you do have these online digital interactions , you do it from a place of empathy and understanding a little bit more .
But you know all these things are tools . You know any video conferencing tool should be fine . Any chat tool or messaging tool should be fine , as long as you set the right culture around how to use them and how you want to get things done as an org .
So the message there really is don't overthink the use of the tools that you choose to use when you're working remotely , because , at the end of the day , most of these tools are pretty . You know most of the common tools like Zoom and Skype and Teams , even Google Meet .
These are all pretty sturdy tools , pretty sort of well-known and user-friendly in most cases , tools that you can use , and I think what is really important is just really figuring out what's best for you , what's best for your team , making sure that everybody on the team knows how to use those bits of tech , making sure that they're getting the most out of it ,
because , at the end of the day , the tool is only as good as the person using the tool . So I think that's the message that came from Greg in that little segment as well . So just don't overthink it , because you'll end up just putting yourself in undue stress and overthinking things , which is something that we don't want to do .
Another thing that greg mentioned there , which I think is really key , really important it's not just all about online interactions .
It's about also when you can getting together with your team in person , getting together to understand them , to really add that next layer of connectivity , I guess , and that next layer of connection with your teammates get to understand them . That's .
That's a really important thing , because , at the end of the day , all these relationships and all these tools , can you know ? They're just pale in significance if you can't trust those people on your team , if you don't get to know those people on your team intimately and as remote workers . That's what we're all about .
I think people just think we just sit behind a desk all day in our pajamas at home all these misconceptions which really kind of annoy me , to be honest with you . But when we're not , we're all about getting to know people .
I think we in fact are the next level in terms of communication and getting to know people , which is something that I think is misunderstood . But I'm not going to start off on a rant , I'm just going to just , uh , really leave it there and just leave it with a message for you just to really just use the tools that best suit you .
Get to to know your tools , get to know the ins and outs of those tools , don't use too many things , don't overcomplicate things and just keep things simple .