Virtual Leadership

By 2025, an estimated 70 percent of the workforce will work remotely at least five days each month. In The Virtual Leader, Takako Hirata, an experienced leader of large international virtual teams, shares her proven methods for thriving in the remote workplace with the help of new leadership principles.

Work from home? Virtual meetings? Do you want a bond with your work-from-home team but don’t know how to start? This audiobook is here to help you get your virtual team members to communicate, interact, and have even more fun as though they were still in the same place! You will learn everything necessary about how to be a good "virtual leader", and in what ways you can make your team from "good" to "excellent". Then we have 20 simple but super funny virtual team building games prepared for you.

An audiobook for managers leading remote teams and for employees who want to make a difference...Pilar Orti and Maya Middlemiss reflect on this transition from a change-management perspective, drawn from their experience of working with leaders of distributed teams. Considering challenges from well-being to technology to communication, this series of articles will empower leaders at all levels to improve their personal practice and their team's performance.

Working remotely gives you flexibility and independence. But it can pose challenges when you need to team up with colleagues or coworkers. Virtual Collaboration covers the basics of working productively—and collaboratively—from anywhere.

Discover the best-kept secrets that enable ordinary people to run highly successful virtual teams like a pro. Learn from an industry expert as he discloses The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Virtual Teams to the professional looking to build or reinforce their own successful virtual team. By definition, a virtual team is a group of individuals who work across time, space, and organizational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technology.

Leading any team involves managing people, technical oversight, and project administration, but leaders of virtual teams perform these functions from afar. Leading Virtual Teams walks you through the basics of: Connecting your people to each other—and to the team's mission, Surmounting language, distance, and technology barriers, and Identifying and using the right communication channels.

As our society continues its transition from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age, new challenges are being introduced into the workplace, giving rise to a new phenomenon, Virtual Distance.

This is an invaluable business manager's guide to avoiding the many pitfalls of Digital Transformation. Curated from over 80 real-world practitioners; from CEOs, Heads of Automation, CIOs, Technology Vice Presidents, Chief Digital Officers, Lean Blackbelts, Developers, Customer Success and Delivery Managers & Business Analysts - who have genuinely lived and breathed the processes and have learnt best practice. This easily digestible and accessible A to Z guide will allow you to dip in and out of the topics you need, to enable a painless and efficient Digital Transformation journey.

Are you ready to unlock the transformative potential of artificial intelligence and revolutionize the way you run your business? Introducing The Virtual CEO: How to Run Any Business on Autopilot from Anywhere Using Artificial Intelligence. This groundbreaking guide is designed to empower aspiring entrepreneurs and established business owners alike.

Many executives and managers have learned to accept the poor performance they are getting from their employees as normal. You are paying for results every payday, but you are not always getting them. Totally accountable systems (TAS) are for professionals who understand that the “new norm” isn’t something that has to be accepted. If you want to create an environment where you can actually count on people to keep their word, this book is for you. Remember, people treat you exactly the way you teach people to treat you.

Die Coronapandemie hat die Arbeitswelt nachhaltig verändert und neue Herausforderungen für Führungskräfte geschaffen. Agiles Arbeiten, Homeoffice, New Work und die VUCA-Welt sind keine bloßen Trends, sondern langfristige Veränderungen, die tiefgreifende Anpassungen erfordern. Aktuelle Studien zeigen, dass der durch die Pandemie erzwungene Perspektivwechsel weit über die Krise hinaus bestehen bleibt. Führungskräfte müssen sich intensiver denn je mit den neuen Anforderungen an die Führung auf Distanz auseinandersetzen, um langfristig erfolgreich zu sein.

Whether you're a small business owner or a corporate executive, Virtual. Freelance. Work from Home is the ultimate resource for anyone looking to stay ahead of the curve in today's rapidly evolving business landscape.

Saving Schools traces the story of the rise, decline, and potential resurrection of American public schools through the lives and ideas of six mission-driven reformers: Horace Mann, John Dewey, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Shanker, William Bennett, and James Coleman. Yet schools did not become the efficient, egalitarian, and high-quality educational institutions these reformers envisioned. Indeed, the unintended consequences of their legacies shaped today's flawed educational system.

Virtual Distance - the measurable disconnect that arises when we rely on digitally mediated communication - applies to all of us. In the second edition of The Power of Virtual Distance, Karen Sobel Lojeski and Richard R. Reilly showcase 15 years of data to describe their powerful framework for predicting everything from trust, employee engagement, and job satisfaction to bottom-line results.

Companies all over the world could greatly benefit from moving part or even all their staff to work from home as virtual employees. Using the techniques and strategies inside The Invisible Organization, all that is possible quickly and efficiently. If you are the CEO of a company that could benefit from generating more profits, shedding overhead, and thrilling staff, this book is a must-listen.

The way that businesses take on, train, and ensure that staff are able to effectively function in a new work environment is known as onboarding. However, in recent years, onboarding has undergone tremendous changes. The most significant of these changes is the increased digitization of onboarding processes, which has taken form in a process known as virtual onboarding. This new form of onboarding presents many opportunities and challenges for businesses today, and in the future.

Anyone can have a good idea. Very few can turn it into a million-dollar one. Until now. It’s challenging to start and scale a business. Choosing the cloud as your platform for delivery and headquarters presents a whole new set of obstacles. This guide will allow you to leverage the cloud to streamline your processes and maximize your profits.

The shift to doing business online hasn’t been easy for any business, but if there’s one industry that’s well-suited for this transition, it’s the network marketing field. For decades, network marketing has helped many people achieve financial freedom and live their dream life, many of whom were working from home.

Collaboration, discussion, and interaction are the lifeblood of a company’s progress and innovation. Unfortunately, meetings can hamper these collaborations when they’re poorly planned, badly run, and haphazardly organized. With the guidance and advice of meeting management expert J.W. Dionne, you’ll find out exactly what you have to do.

If you are looking for a new job and feel a little bit lost or unprepared, you are definitely not alone. In a highly competitive job market, the difference between getting the job and not getting the job could come down to a few simple mistakes that may have been easily avoided. This book provides simple advice to help you get the job you really want by guiding your search, preparation, and actions. While not every bit of advice may apply to you, just a few of the suggestions in this book could make enough of a difference to win the interview, get the job, and advance your career.