Potential future interview question: what did you do in quarantine?

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I honestly hope not. It could be a painful question for someone to answer.

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Survive, hopefully.

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Oversaw my teams shift to virtual.

Going into this transition I knew collaboration, efficiency, and accountability would be the big pitfalls.

Efficiency was easy. We were able to get buy-in internally on sending equipment home. By the next day we were able to mirror our team's work setup in their homes. Dual monitors, mice, keyboards, whatever else they needed.

I handled accountability and collaboration by introducing a 2x daily check in, with each team member taking a 1 week turn running the check in and owning our PM tool.

Our team has maintained workload without missing a beat. We've had thanks conveyed from many clients. We had ~16% of our clients pause, 8% heavy up, and 24% consider pulling back but choose not to based on our responsiveness. The rest are business as usual.

All in all I gotta say I'm looking forward to answering that question :)

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That's a good point. It's certainly a rough time, probably should have 'turned off' before putting that out there.

Best wishes to all affected.

Uhmmm stayed at home?

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