With COVID-19, it seems new information and resources are emerging every day. To help sort through it all, we’ve collected the articles, tools and resources that digital leaders within the Bureau community have found helpful in addressing challenges such as health concerns, business planning, working remotely and communicating effectively. Read on for advice, guides, interviews and more, and add your recommendations to the mix by commenting below. You can also post your questions in a comment, and we’ll reach out to our community experts for answers.
Organizational Preparedness & Planning
Summit CPA Group: Recession-Proofing Your Business Owner Summit 2020 Presentation: Learn how to strengthen your company’s financial health, weather the storm and position yourself for prosperity and growth in any economic climate.
Summit CPA Group: How the Proposed Families First Coronavirus Response Act Will Affect Your Small Business: What the proposed Families First Coronavirus Response Act means for employers
Harvard Business Review: What Organizations Need to Survive a Pandemic: How companies can inoculate themselves against threats
Promethean Research: COVID-19 Economic Update: COVID-19 and economic impacts
Promethean Research: Navigating COVID-19: Ideas to help digital shops adapt to COVID-19
Mandela SH Dixon, Founder Gym: “How Can My Business Survive the Coronavirus?” Industry Experts Weigh In.: Resources from investors and founders
The Dendrocast: How Coronavirus is Disrupting the Agency Business: An inside look at how agencies are managing COVID-19
John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center: Resources to help inform and guide leadership responses, including the COVID-19 Interactive Map
Tomas Pueyo: Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now: Actions community and business leaders can take to slow down COVID-19
#StayTheF*ckHome: The Self-Quarantine Manifesto
Leadership
Harvard Business Review: Slow Down to Make Better Decisions in a Crisis: How to use deliberative reasoning with data rather than acting on gut feelings
Harvard Business Review: Lead Your Business Through the Coronavirus Crisis: 12 lessons for responding to unfolding events, communicating and extracting and applying learnings
Harvard Business Publishing: Leading like a Swan: How to present yourself in the best possible way to get the best possible results, and avoid triggering panic in your team
Working Remotely
Guides, Tips & Training
InVision: Remote Work for Design Teams: InVision’s Essential Resources: Design-oriented resources to help foster creativity, focus and collaboration
InVision: Running Effective Remote Events: InVision’s guide to virtual events
Greg Storey, InVision: Leading Newly Remote Teams: A guide for managing, mentoring and operating design virtually
Greg Storey, InVision: Advice from Ten Years of Leading Remote Teams: Lessons in remote leadership
Atlassian: 5 Tips for Ramping Up on Remote Work in a Hurry: Five ways to get back to the “performing” stage and resume your regularly-scheduled level of productivity
Atlassian: 500 Atlassians Worked Remotely for a Week—Here’s What We Learned: Collection of tips for working from home
Sparkbox: Best Practices for Remote Meetings: Tips for effective remote meetings
Know Your Team: A Guide to Managing Remote Teams: Free guide for first-time or transitioning managers of remote teams
WeConsult: Crafting a Work from Home Policy that Helps Your Company Thrive: How to draft and roll out a work-from-home policy
Help Scout: Working Remotely: Tips from 100+ Remote Workers & Leaders: Ideas and guidance for remote work
Yonder: 7 Tips for Productively Working from Home for the First Time: Highlights on how to work productively remotely
ExpandTheRoom: How to Solve Remote Work Challenges: Five Tips from ETR’s Fully Distributed Team: Five common remote work obstacles with pro tips to help overcome them
Harvard Business Review: How to Get People to Actually Participate in Virtual Meetings: Rules to help boost engagement in virtual meetings
Slack: The Ultimate Guide to Remote Meetings in 2020: How to set up effective virtual meetings with distributed team members
Hilary Green: So, You Are Now Managing an Entirely Remote Team…: Key learnings from the Director of Change Management at Scotiabank
DESK Magazine: How to Work Well from Home This Week—So You Can Next Week, Too: How to work from home for the first time, and be good at it
The Guardian: Working from Home? Video Conference Call Tips for the Self-Isolating: Dos and don’ts for video conferencing
6Nomads: How Do Remote Developers Manage to Be Productive?: How remote developers usually organize their life to cope with tasks and deliver on time, plus the most popular life hacks
LaterPay: Going Home Office Overnight—A Guide To Productivity: A guide to help you set up a good home office experience
David Sneider: What to Do if Your Elite Team Becomes Distributed Overnight In Response to Coronavirus: Tactics and Tools for Jumping Into Fully Remote Work
Scarlettabbott: Virtual Conferences. Engaging People Remotely.: Creating event experiences in a digital setting
Resources for Parents Working from Home
KidsActivities.com: Here’s the Entire List of Education Companies Offering Free Subscriptions Due to School Closings: List of free education subscriptions for kids
Survival Guide for WFH Parents with Kids at Home Too: Open-source doc with overview of parent needs and resources for kids
Quartz: How to Give Your Kids Stability When Coronavirus Closes Schools: Advice for parents and educators
Recommended Tools
Palantir: Tools for Collaborating Remotely: Suggested tool set for remote work
WebDevStudios: Communications in a Remote Work Company: Suggested communication tools for remote work
Miro: Online collaborative whiteboarding platform
Leena AI: ChatterOn Web Messenger: AI-powered chatbot to answer employees’ queries about Coronavirus
Podcasts
The Bureau Briefing: Supporting Each Other Through COVID-19: Update from the Bureau of Digital
The Crazy Ones Podcast: Best Practices for Remote Work: Common problems and misperceptions with remote work, and the different mindset, tools and behaviors you will need to be successful
Yonder: Remote Work During a Pandemic: Podcast about transitioning to remote work, from folks who’ve been through it
Remote Work Life Podcast: Interviews and tips to help you thrive as a remote worker and stay connected with what's current
Remote Work: How CEOs and leaders of remote companies are working successfully
Vivi Campbell: Remote-First Pilot: Lessons learned form a remote-first pilot
Online Training Courses & Webinars
LinkedIn Learning: Remote Working: Setting Yourself and Your Teams Up for Success: Training courses on how to be productive and stay connected when working from home or other remote environments
Eventbrite: Free Live Session: How to Run Meetings Online: Interactive workshop covering fundamentals, must-haves and tools for virtual meetings and online collaboration
Lever: Improving Global Communication Across Remote Teams: Webinar on remote team management, communication and collaboration
Slack: Working Remotely in Slack: Getting Started: Webinar covering Slack basics, tactics and best practices
Legal, Operations & Communications
Harvard Business Review: What Are Companies’ Legal Obligations Around Coronavirus?: Eight steps companies should take to minimize employees’ risk of infection and their own legal risks
Lumity: Leave Laws & COVID-19: How COVID-19 might interact with leave laws
HR for HR: COVID-19: Policies, Planning and Communication Templates: HR resources and templates
CultureIQ: Culture Challenges: How to Stop a COVID-19 Outbreak from Breaking Your Business: How to accelerate cultural change to reduce health and business risks
Mike Joyner, Growth by Design Talent: 5 Ways Recruiting Teams are Adjusting to Coronavirus (COVID-19): Insights from recruiting leaders on adapting to COVID-19
Psychology Today: Are You Worried About the Coronavirus?: 7 steps to overcome your worry
Harvard Business Review: Communicating Through the Coronavirus Crisis: Communicating with empathy during times of uncertainty
Plank’s COVID-19 Policy: Statement from digital agency Plank on responding to COVID-19
The Coinbase Blog: Coinbase Planning and Response to COVID-2019: Planning materials from Coinbase
Gray Scalable: Coronavirus Response: A Company Communications Template: A foundation to customize your company communications
Armanino: Crisis Planning Checklist: Checklist to help organizations plan for and minimize potential disruption to employees and operations