REMOTE WORK IS A TOOL.
USE IT WELL.
Working from home and working effectively from home are two very different things. Scott Haley brings the practical, human and occasionally ridiculous realities of remote work to audiences in a keynote built to help people work better without letting work take over their lives.
SURVIVING WHILE WORKING REMOTE
A Practical Guide to Staying Productive, Connected, and Sane When Your Office Is Your Home
No commute. More flexibility. Fewer hallway interruptions. The practical realities of doing good work when home becomes the workplace.
WORKING FROM HOME AND WORKING EFFECTIVELY FROM HOME ARE TWO VERY DIFFERENT THINGS.
Used well, it can create flexibility, independence, productivity and a better quality of life. Used badly, it can turn home into a 24-hour office. The keynote is about building a remote-work system that actually works for the individual doing the work.
USEFUL IDEAS THEY CAN APPLY THE NEXT WORKDAY.
Build a Functional Workspace
Create a work area that supports focus without requiring a perfect home office.
Manage Distractions
Recognize where attention disappears and create simple rules that protect productive time.
Create Real Boundaries
Build intentional start-work and end-work routines so flexibility does not become constant availability.
Communicate Without the Hallway
Use the right communication channel, stay visible and maintain relationships when coworkers are not nearby.
Stay Connected and Visible
Protect professional relationships, career visibility and human connection while working independently.
Build Your Own Operating System
Create routines, rules, priorities, breaks and a shutdown procedure that make remote work sustainable.
THIS IS A REMOTE-WORK KEYNOTE. OF COURSE THE PETS ARE INVOLVED.
The commute is shorter. The dress code is questionable. Your coworkers may be furry. And eventually somebody will ask, “Can everyone hear me?” while completely on mute.
FOR PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS NAVIGATING THE REALITY OF REMOTE WORK.
Great for audiences such as:
The tone
Practical enough to be useful. Human enough to be relatable. Humorous enough that the audience recognizes themselves in it.
The goal is not to argue that remote work is wonderful or terrible. It is to help people use it better.
MINUTE KEYNOTE
Surviving While Working Remote
A practical, humorous presentation about what really happens when the workplace moves into the home.
FROM THE WORKSPACE TO THE SHUTDOWN ROUTINE.
AUTHOR. SPEAKER.REMOTE-WORK SURVIVOR.
Scott Haley started working remotely right out of college in 1984—long before “remote work” became a common way to describe how and where people work.
Over more than four decades, his work as a remodeler, general contractor and insurance adjuster has taken him between the home office and the field, giving him a practical perspective on productivity, communication, boundaries and staying connected when the workplace is not one shared building.
After years of mentoring others on the realities of remote work, Scott turned those lessons into Survive & Thrive While Working Remote and the Surviving While Working Remote presentation—helping audiences learn a few things the easy way instead of entirely through the school of hard knocks.
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