Professional in Pajamas: 101 Tips for Working from Home

by Karen Adamedes

Overview

Working from Home?

How to make it work for you!

Working from home has been embraced by employees, contractors, freelancers and small business people alike. It offers the flexibility and freedom to organize your day, work where you choose, and focus on what you need to achieve.

There is no hot-desking, commuting, or your boss watching your every move. It's not all fun and games, coffee breaks, and chats on the phone. It's work. It can be hard work. And it can be lonely. Sometimes it can be tough with long hours and the line between your work and home life can often blur.

The good news is that there are ways to manage the drawbacks.

It's all about making working from home work for you.

Professional in Pajamas provides 101 tips for working from home that cover how to:

• Get your work done and be productive
• Keep the balance between work and home
• Set up where you work
• Know the technology you need to invest in
• Maximize your impact on conference calls
• Stay top of mind by keeping in touch
• Choose your future through ongoing career development
• Look after yourself and your well-being.

And we tackle the big question... can you be Professional in Pajamas?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780980636451
Publisher:	Abney Hall Pty Ltd
Publication date:	05/28/2020
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Karen Adamedes specializes in business transformation for organizations as a strategic business adviser, and career development as an author, blogger and speaker.

Karen's career insights draw on her extensive experience working for market-leaders in Australia; in sales, marketing, operational and senior management roles. She is an accomplished senior executive with a proven track record of success driving business transformation, the delivery of business results and the development of high performance teams.

​As the author of two books, Hot Tips for Career Chicks and the newly released Professional in Pajamas: 101 Tips for Working from Home, Karen's career insights have been featured in many major magazines and international publications.

Table of Contents

Contents

Preface....................................................................................................iii

WORKING FROM HOME.......................................................................xi

The good stuff (why we love it)...............................................................xv

What could possibly go wrong? (what we need to manage) ...,.............xix

I. GETTING STUFF DONE (how to be productive).....................,,...........1

II. WORK VERSUS HOME (how to keep the balance)...........................37

III. WHERE YOU WORK (how to be comfy)...........................................61

IV. TECHNOLOGY (how to geek) ..........................................................79

V. CONFERENCING (how to maximize your impact).............................95

VI. KEEP IN TOUCH (how to stay top of mind).....................................115

VII. CAREER DEVELOPMENT (how to choose your future)................135

VIII. WELL-BEING (how to look after you) ...........................................157

AND FINALLY,.......................................................................................191

Stay in Touch ........................................................................................195

About the Author....................................................................................196

Endnotes......................................................,,,.......................................197

Editorial Reviews

"Professional in Pajamas offers a treasure trove of tips and tricks...Karen's advice and insight is timely and will help many navigate remote working" - NZ Booklovers

"A very easy and entertaining read with many tips that I will adopt now that going to an office is becoming a distant memory." - Ray Kiley, Advisor to Technology Start Ups and Scale Ups (LinkedIn Review)

"Your book Professional in Pajamas is fabulous. I encourage everyone to buy a copy." - Justine Cain, Board Member & Senior Executive (LinkedIn Review)

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