Bøger af Maya Middlemiss

When we work from home, it's easy to lose sight of the critical boundaries between life and work, and between our professional and personal identities. In the traditional workplace, we had physical boundaries and those of distance, which helped us define our edges and disconnect properly when we needed to. But this distinction was already under threat due to the technology in our pockets, even before everyone was forced to work from home overnight. This shift led to further encroachment from the technological side too, with an explosion of digital surveillance tools being deployed, frequently without due consultation and consideration, by managers also struggling to cope with adjusting to unchosen changes.You can reclaim those boundaries, even when work and home and family life happen in the same physical space, and in overlapping time periods. The key is to find a dynamic balance which respects your individual needs, and helps you blend your intersecting roles and responsibilities - as employee, entrepreneur, manager, parent, partner, community member... reclaiming your sanity and your time, to lead a fulfilled and happy work-from-home life.This book will help you manage all those boundaries, which include those between you and your technology, your physical space, your sensory input, your tasks and roles, and most tricky of all: other people.

Making the transition from a lifetime of office-based work to successful, contented, and productive working from home, isn't as simple as it sounds - nor as simple as the world needed it to be, in the 2020 global health crisis. Doing homeworking well requires new skills in any role, from self-management to wrangling new technology and tools.But the good news is, the collaboration environment has made a decade's worth of progress in a few short months, and as the world reshapes itself for the new normality, you can choose to carve out a meaningful and productive life of working from home, on your own terms. In Out Of The Office: Making the transition to working from home, 20 year work-from-home veteran Maya Middlemiss helps you discover the choices and benefits homeworking can bring into your life, whether you're an employee or an entrepreneur, and encourages you to see past the immediate reactive situation and embrace all that working from home has to offer as a long term option that suits you. From finding your first location-independent role to setting up a viable home office whatever your constraints, it's all here, in the first volume of the Healthy Happy Homeworking series - helping you get organised, stay positive, and develop the right home office routine. "Having worked from home for the last 15 years, I can honestly say that I wish I had had this guide for all that time. Super useful advice, some of which have even made me change my ways after so long. If you are considering working from home, or you already do, I encourage you to get this guide now, you honestly will not regret it, and will certainly benefit from it. The friendly style of writing means you can devour it all in one sitting, or keep referring to it whenever you need to. This book will have pride of place on my coffee table!" Rebecca Sian Wey, Account Manager Spain, Channel Factory "Before this year I would never have considered working from home, and it was a bit chaotic to start with. But now my department is consulting about our long term future arrangements, and I am trying to work out what I really want from my work and personal life going forward - Out Of The Office has been really useful in helping me think about this, and realise I have choices. I think I can see a way to make it work, if not having it all then at least having what I want - not an outcome I expected from 2020." Robert K., Essex County Council, UK Whether you chose to work from home or had it forced upon you, the world of work is changing, and there's every chance your primary work activity will require new flexibility for the long haul. Preparing yourself for that scenario in emotional, practical, technical and productivity terms, is the best investment you can make right now in future-proofing your career.This is the guide you need, to successfully navigate the new normality.

CARRIE: A woman trapped in a marriage of secret violence and fear, where she has no control over her future and her own resources.Another woman thousands of miles away, increasingly coerced and controlled by political and religious forces beyond her control. How will each throw offthe chains which bind them to circumstances they can no longer tolerate?United by their dreams of a better future for their children and a fairer and more transparent world of digital currency and financial independence, the journey to liberation is far from straightforward for either of them. But nothing can stop a mother who wants the best for her child.“A gripping and intense journey of courage and vision, I learned so much right along with Carrie, while being carried away with her brave fight to recover her past and her future”Beyond the Chain is the fiction debut of futurist and writer Maya Middlemiss, CEO of marketing communications agency BlockSparks OU. To learn more about the author and this book, please visit: beyondthechainbook.com

"This book is a hands-on approach to the delivery of excellence in recruitment... It distils many years of experience and ongoing innovation into simple and easy to read guidelines, and sets out the fundamentals for success in a modern, digital world." Katie Oakley Founding Partner, MEAT In The Participant Principle, Maya Middlemiss uses her experience working with Saros Research and the many thousands of research participants they have placed in an incredible range of projects since the company's inception in 2000.This book breaks new ground and reveals the key ingredients to successful recruitment for all user testing and qualitative research. From focus groups to eye tracking to food tasting and every conceivable methodology in between, it all depends upon the flexibility, ideas and commitment of the people participating. It's their ideas and contributions which are the building blocks for all that the research industry delivers."We are passionate about participants, because we know how important they are. We want the researchers we work with to get the best possible people to work with, those who will put the greatest efforts into their contributions. This guide will help you to get the most out of the recruitment services you commission for every research project you do." Maya Middlemiss