#29 Balancing new work and face time - the importance of staying in touch with Tanja zu Waldeck

Tanja Dr. Prinzessin zu Waldeck turned her sitting room into an
office just after she had her first baby - she used the space for
her brand new startup, @NetMoms.


 Since then, she’s been a living role model for a variety of
new & innovative working models, between working remotely and
choosing flexible working hours, as she had three more children
and built a career that took her from NetMoms to Tomorrow Focus
News and now to COO at @Burda Forward. 


 This experience means that she embraces that flexibility as
a leader too. “I think COVID showed us that you can run a company
completely out of 800 home offices,” she tells me in this week’s
podcast. “We don’t want to go back to 100% in the office, nobody
wants that and I think it’s not useful anyhow. But we do expect
people to invest 20% of their time in networking and team time.”


From my perspective at MyCollective I thought this was really
interesting to hear from an executive level manager like Tanja -
because this is something that we encourage new parents to do
too, in the knowledge that networking (much like maintaining
friendships outside of work) is one of those things that’s first
to fall by the wayside when you have a baby. So whether it’s part
of your corporate culture or not, I think aiming to invest 20% of
your time into face time with colleagues or networking in general
is a pretty good goal. It could be vital to your career at some
point - as we say, “build the network when you don’t need it, so
that you have it when you need it!” 


 


Speaker: Tanja Dr. Prinzessin zu Waldeck, COO @Burda Forward


Interviewer: Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier - Founder @MyCollective 


Music: sponsored by @Michaelkadelbach


Picture: Tanja zu Waldeck / Burda Forward


Graphic & Production: MyCollective


 


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