Raúl Antón Cuadrado, autor en REMOTEFROG

“The invisible Leader”: learning about purpose.

Purpose is a powerful motivator, adding meaning to actions. How can we foster purpose in teams and projects?

Leads play a major role in Retention.

Leads actions are at the core of happiness, energy, belonging, and purpose at work, so they have a huge impact in retention.

by Raúl Antón Cuadrado

Feedback Wall: a very simple exercise to capitalize feedback

A very simple yet effective exercise that I’ve used to capitalize and keep received feedback alive: a feedback wall

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Readymade ideas and leadership. Notes on How to start a movement TED talk.

A great lead take a readymade idea, reinterprets or adapts it, and adds an extra value by showing how to tap into it to help the group purpose.

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I choose to protect my Inner Child

Self Care: I choose to protect my inner child statement. It’s ok to ask for help, it’s ok to say no and not to give your best all the time.

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Tips to a healthy work-life balance for people starting in a remote company

Tips to separate working time and personal time when working remote. Be happier and more productive, both at work and in your leisure time.

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5 clear and actionable video talk tips to nail your online presentations

You need to give a talk on zoom and you need a hand preparing it? Here you have 5 clear and actionable tips to nail it!

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Using my Dr. title in public, because it is my choice.

When I read my colleague Tess’s post (my title my choice) I decided to do something about it. Context: The post was a reaction to a repulsive Wall Street Journal article. That article simply is a repugnant patronizing and sexist attack on Dr. Jill Biden’s use of Dr. title. I agree with Tess when she […]

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A remote working routine to be productive and happy in 4 steps.

A working routine to be productive and happy in remote work that leaves time for self-care and awareness and structures your working day.

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WordCamp Finland ‘Remote teams leadership public/private keys: Horizontality + Openness’ slides

I remember back in 1996 where I got a microwave Internet access (How? That’s a longer history). The best place in the whole world to get stuff was Oulu university servers (Heads up I’m talking about FTP, not HTTP). It was paradise! It sounded picturesque, far away… but now, 25 years later, the Internet removed […]

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Join the Remote Movement in Repeople Conference (Nov 5th and 6th, 2020)

Tomorrow, Nov 5th I’ll be talking about Office Agnosticism at Repeople conference. Repeople was formerly NomadCity (It was renamed this year), and it is the largest remote work event in Europe. An opportunity to learn, share… and dream of a time where you can work from wherever you want to live, not the opposite. There […]

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How to promote participation in your team P2: Be less present!

If team lead is less present in conversations it creates a space for others to participate and foster participation. An experiment explained.

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Asynchronous work, Communication, Openness… cigarettes

Better late than never. Let’s share the presentation I made for a talk with People R-evolution. It was on July 20th from 17.00 to 19.00 CEST (This is the link to the talk) and was about communication, openness, and asynchronous work and how it relates to happiness at work. So two hours! Yeah, my first […]

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Automattic. Trust, horizontality, openness for happier and more productive people

I’ll be talking about distributed work and how we implement it in Automattic with some nice folks in People R-evolution. It’ll be on July 20th from 17.00 to 19.00 CEST and you can sign up for this talk here

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Spreading happiness with delegation vs micromanagement.

Delegate what to who. Allow your team to find the how, sharing freedom and enjoyment. You’ll get extra time not checking the process but just the outcome.

by Raúl Antón Cuadrado

Teal Organizations and Knowledge Generation. Notes.

To overlap knowledge generation and use you need no central point where knowledge is managed (Think management as validation and distribution control)

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Sharing previous work stories as a tool to bond the team.

Knowing more about your team mates helps to bond the team and feel better at work. So we shared our previous work stories with awesome results.

by Raúl Antón Cuadrado

How to get remote teams to share their knowledge.

Recap of my talks at commit-conf and EdunovaTIC19. How could we use peer reviews in an open horizontal environment to convert them into a learning process.

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Peer Reviews at Commit Conf

Let’s cut to the chase. If you are here it’s because you are looking for the slides I mentioned for this talk about peer reviews in commit-conf. Well, here they are. Bonus track: Some notes about commit that I took and published to prepare this talk. (In Spanish) And in a couple of days I’ll […]

by Raúl Antón Cuadrado