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April 8, 2020

Trust and #WFH

I've saved the note my then 10-year-old daughter slipped in front of me, letting me know that there was a big ant downstairs. Hopefully, no one on the conference call noticed that I paused and maybe stumbled a bit during my online presentation

As a virtual organization, Mapping Your Future employees have been working from home offices for years - enjoying the good and enduring the bad.

There's a lot of great advice out there now about working from home (#WFH), but perhaps what I've learned is trust. Someone asked me once, "How do you know staff are doing their jobs if you can't see them?" My response, "Why would I have someone on staff I couldn't trust - whether I could see them or not?"

Working from home does require a lot of trust - in yourself, in your staff, your customers or students, and your family. Then, again, so does working from an office.

However, along with the need for trust is also the need for a little grace especially during these trying times. Maybe that's why I saved the note about big ant downstairs.

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