One question I have for David and others: how to efficiency manage daily work-from-home status updates. Specifically, how to handle situations where a boss doesn't trust direct reports to actually put in a full day and so insists on detailed, emailed status reports on work completed and hours worked each day. I'm getting asked already for help on how to deal with these situations efficiently.
I create an all-day free event in my Outlook calendar called "Deliverables" that my team can see and in the notes I type in the things to work on and their status ("done", "doing", "do"). This is more for me than my (very reasonable and mature) boss: I get more distracted at home and I need more blinders to keep me focused! So it helps me be accountable to me, first, and in doing so I'm accountable and transparent to everyone else - without wasting an hour just preparing an update on what I did and when I did it. It preserves trust with little effort.
Another option for those without another reporting system could be to leverage the Completed list in Outlook: group by date completed, include and populate the actual hours field, copy and paste the list in Excel. And for some, maybe creating an Outlook category for COVID might help with keeping a longitudinal or cumulative record of what was done -- whether it be a task, calendar event, journal item, note, etc -- during this period. May be useful for Incident Command work situations.
I'm glad I had my @ computer and @ office lists before all this hit; these have come in very handy this last week.
Thank you for doing a webinar on this topic for us!
Cheers,
Melissa