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"As the corporate world continues to embrace virtual offices and working remotely, there is a need for companies to understand how they can intentionally build a remote workforce that thrives. This book serves as a quick guide with actionable steps to take if you are transitioning to a remote workplace or looking to improve your existing setup"--
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The ultimate guide to leading remote employees and teams, tackling the key challenges that managers face-from hiring and onboarding new members to building culture remotely, tracking productivity, communicating speedily, and retaining star employees"--
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Organizations that have successfully incorporated virtual teams into their business practices have realized significant benefits. Benefits including reduced business costs, accelerated product delivery and improved levels of competitive advantage. However, along with the advantages virtual teams can offer come many unique challenges that must be addressed in order to deliver successful project results. This report featuring expert Alex Adamopoulos,...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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A key tool enabling global businesses to keep pace, remain competitive and be profitable is the virtual team. Managing virtual teams is a skill that many leaders struggle with. This course will offer insights and best practices to help managers deal with challenges and maximize their team's true potential. The first major section outlines the major teaching points. Next, the course delves into the concept of "connection" and how this differs from...
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Entrepreneur Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"As more traditional businesses rethink the evolving workspace, adapting is imperative for the successful remote worker. Whether a seasoned professional or fresh on the scene, The Remote Worker's Handbook gives you the tools to harness an entirely new skill set for a seamless passage into the modern employment frontier"--
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Kaplan, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"In Working Remotely, authors Mike, Holly, and Teresa discuss how to ward off toxic levels of loneliness, how to get what you need from colleagues spread across the world, and how to network and grow in your career when you are sitting in an office of one, plus many other topics that will help you survive and thrive as a remote worker. Mike, Holly, and Teresa use their different paths through Kaplan to help the remote worker figure out how to set...
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MIT Sloan Management Review
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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The growing use of text-based messaging platforms such as Slack and Huddle means that many manager-employee interactions are shifting to these virtual environments as well. When a research team studied text platform interactions to examine the nature of team relationships in a hybrid work setting, they found that managers must incorporate relational power into their leadership approach rather than relying solely on hierarchical position to sustain...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"The latest book from remote-leadership experts shows leaders how to design a team culture that has a "one-team" mindset and gets great results under hybrid-work conditions. With hybrid work becoming increasingly common, organizations must address the unique challenges that hybrid teams pose and learn how to purposefully design them. The Long-Distance Team guides leaders on how to create the culture they envision for their teams and organizations...
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Set your virtual team on a path to success In the global marketplace, people can work practically anywhere and anytime. Virtual teams cut across the boundaries of time, space, culture, and sometimes even organizations. Rising costs, global locations, and advances in technology are top reasons why virtual teams have increased by 800 percent over the past 5 years. Packed with solid advice, interviews and case studies from well-known companies who are...
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MIT Sloan Management Review
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A study of hybrid work finds that support from colleagues is even more critical to combating isolation and improving job satisfaction than support from managers. Workers who did their jobs partly from home and partly in a company location and experienced high levels of colleague support when at home were much less likely to report persistent feelings of loneliness, and those who felt supported by teammates both when at home and in the workplace were...
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Wiley
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The COVID19 pandemic pushed us all forward into a world of virtual work and teams. However, humanity craves deeper relationships than that which is typically achieved during a Zoom call. Rituals for Virtual Meetings will help you unlock how virtual interactions work, and how to build, grow, and sustain meaningful relationships at work (and beyond) in an increasingly online world. This book is structured around the life cycle of a relationship: from...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"In Remote and Hybrid Work: What Everyone Needs to Know, Barbara Z. Larson addresses key questions regarding the contemporary workplace: what is the difference between virtual work and remote work? How common is remote work, and what changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic? Is there a particular type of person who is better suited for remote work? What are the effects of using technology to monitor remote workers? What are the societal benefits and costs...
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Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"You can thrive and excel when you're working remotely, if you adopt the mindset, habits and tech tools of professionals who are even more productive outside the office: Learn to think like a "business of one," and that entrepreneurial mindset will transform your experience of remote work." -- inside front jacket flap.
"Two experienced productivity authors team up to reveal how proven strategies and a little tech savvy can help you level up your...
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Publisher
Apress
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
If you are asking yourself Why are my engineers unable to deliver?, Why are so many engineers leaving? or Why is our software riddled with bugs?, then you've come to the right place. This book acts as a concise, practical guide on how to lead successful agile projects in a remote environment. The authors draw from industry experience and a wide range of fields and disciplines--from software engineering to criminology and sociology--to teach you how...
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Publisher
Pragmatic Bookshelf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The office isn't as essential as it used to be. Flexible working hours and distributed teams are replacing decades of on-site, open-plan office culture. Wherever you work from nowadays, your colleagues are likely to be somewhere else. No more whiteboards. No more water coolers. And certainly no Ping-Pong. So how can you organize yourself, ship software, communicate, and be impactful as part of a globally distributed workforce? We'll show you how....
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BenBella Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Entrepreneurs often suffer from "superhero syndrome"-the misconception that to be successful, they must do everything themselves. Not only are they the boss, but also the salesperson, HR manager, copywriter, operations manager, online marketing guru, and so much more. It's no wonder why so many people give up the dream of starting a business-it's just too much for one person to handle. But outsourcing expert and "Virtual CEO," Chris Ducker knows...
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Publisher
ATD Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Working remotely is a reality of today's and tomorrow's workforce. With organizations switching from a model of only on-site employees to on-site and virtual employees workintg globally, mangers need guidance on how to address the traditional and not-so-traditional issues that occur when staff is not colocated."--Back cover
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