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<v Speaker 1>wherever you get your podcasts. Good morning, This is Laura.

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to The New Corner Office, the podcast where we

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<v Speaker 1>share strategies for thriving in the new world of work

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<v Speaker 1>where location and hours are more flexible than in the past.

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<v Speaker 1>This week I'll be sharing a few tips from my

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<v Speaker 1>new book called The New Corner Office. It's about how

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<v Speaker 1>the most successful people work from home productively and ambitiously.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip is to recognize that working from home is

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<v Speaker 1>a skill. Like most skills, people aren't very good at

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<v Speaker 1>it at first, but they get better with practice over time.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a reassuring realization on those days when you

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<v Speaker 1>feel like things just aren't working all that well. If

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<v Speaker 1>you've been working at home for decades, it's easy to

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<v Speaker 1>forget what it was like at first. When millions of

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<v Speaker 1>people began working from home for the first time in March,

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<v Speaker 1>in the wake of COVID nineteen, I went back to

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<v Speaker 1>look at some of my old musings from two thousand two.

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<v Speaker 1>That was when I first started working from home, and well,

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<v Speaker 1>I was kind of a wreck. I'd half work and

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<v Speaker 1>half served the web into odd hours of the night.

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<v Speaker 1>I had no idea what I was doing. I had

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<v Speaker 1>to learn to work in a self directed way and

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<v Speaker 1>to figure out how to work efficiently and create boundaries

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<v Speaker 1>without the normal structures and group norms of an office.

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<v Speaker 1>The proportion of American workers who had ever worked from

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<v Speaker 1>home literally doubled between mid March and early April. This

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<v Speaker 1>is millions of people. No wonder things were a little

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<v Speaker 1>awkward at first. Can you imagine if millions of people

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<v Speaker 1>decided to learn to play tennis or speak French overnight?

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<v Speaker 1>There would be a lot of really terrible tennis games

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<v Speaker 1>and French conversations for a while. Similarly, there were a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of really bad zoom meetings with people talking over

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<v Speaker 1>each other or worse. A friend of mine mentioned that

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<v Speaker 1>getting a project approved was taking forever. Finally, someone confessed

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<v Speaker 1>that while he normally would have walked a proposal over

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<v Speaker 1>to everyone's desk for a quick check in, now he

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<v Speaker 1>was schedule formal calls with everyone whose schedules were so

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<v Speaker 1>packed with other formal calls that work slowed considerably. Oh dear,

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<v Speaker 1>But here's the thing with skills. People aren't naturally good

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<v Speaker 1>or bad at them. You get better with time and practice.

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<v Speaker 1>This is exactly what happens with working from home. Through

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<v Speaker 1>trial and error, you realize that on conference calls and

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<v Speaker 1>video calls you need to use people's names to indicate

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<v Speaker 1>who should now be talking. You learn that you can

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<v Speaker 1>just pick up the phone and call people when you

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<v Speaker 1>need a quick response. You learn to declare a quitting time.

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<v Speaker 1>I find this is a helpful mindset, both for ourselves

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<v Speaker 1>and when we're working with others. Working from home is

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<v Speaker 1>a skill, and if you actively try to learn and improve,

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<v Speaker 1>you will improve. And just like speaking French or playing

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<v Speaker 1>a sport, the skill of working from home will still

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<v Speaker 1>be useful when life goes back to normal. It will

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<v Speaker 1>be a tool in your toolbox which you can pull

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<v Speaker 1>out when needed. So what have you learned as you've

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<v Speaker 1>been working from home? In what ways have you improved?

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<v Speaker 1>Celebrate these victories and be patient when you see where

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<v Speaker 1>others are on the learning curve. They will get there

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<v Speaker 1>in time. In the meantime, this is Laura, thanks for listening,

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