Jon Santee

How do you . . . This should always be met with at least 1 part "never stop learning". Whether it be through books, videos, hands-on, lunch 'n learns, etc., you must never lose your passion for learning. Then find the areas where you need to learn, you want to learn, and what you must do for your work overlap. Focus there and expand.

As part of the interview process, you must show your experience and adaptability to multiple forms of communication. With a remote team, understanding how to use short-form (Slack/Teams), long-form (email), voice, and video will be critical. Highlight how you have, or would utilize those, providing different scenarios.

Never overlook the possibility of having an internal "champion" or mentor within your current organization. Someone in a senior or executive position who knows the ins and outs of the company, can advocate on behalf and can guide you in the more general ways of maturing yourself and your career.

Look at the situation and build out a 3-point plan: 1) Learn - Ensure you understand this disruption, its drivers, its enablers, and its costs. 2) Embrace - Few who fight the disruption survive to tell the tale. How can you incorporate it into your product/vision? 3) Extend - Unless you want to be seen as riding the coattails, how do you then extend or enhance the disruption to bring even more value?

Never. Stop. Learning. Books, newsletters, conferences, local events, online peer groups and networking, your teams, your clients and customers, they are all sources of knowledge. Seek out how you learn best and then never take your foot off the gas.

1) Share knowledge in posts. 2) Share knowledge in comments. 3) Share knowledge in messages. Notice a common theme? You cannot keep your experiences and knowledge bottled up and hope to gather any sort of backing or engagement. The subtext to each, share knowledge in the correct context. Make sure it applies to the posts you are seeing, or the questions being asked. You could teach me the most wonderful recipe for soup but if I'm asking for how to fix a leaky faucet, well, it will likely fall flat (unless I'm hungry).