How to manage remote teams 101 (keynote at Conector Barcelona)MarsBased
Introduction to manage remote working teams. Discover the tools that we use at MarsBased, tips to increase productivity, best practices, recommended reads and much more thanks to this keynote that was done at Conector on July 21st 2015 by our CMO Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit
This deck walks you through a perspective of what it takes to be consistently good at what you do. No matter what you offer, how you sell or where your business goals area headed, these best practices we value at Netfor are sure to help you form your own framework of success. We take our lead from the ITIL Framework, two decades of customer experience work and a desire to be the best we can be at every turn.
Effective Telepresence and Remote CollaborationWill Button
Remote workers have become a mainstay, whether dealing with outsourced staff, work from home employees, or remote offices. These slides are from the Phoenix DevOps Meetup (07/27/2016) where I spoke about tips, tools, and techniques to enable better communication across remote teams.
How to manage remote teams 101 (keynote at Conector Barcelona)MarsBased
Introduction to manage remote working teams. Discover the tools that we use at MarsBased, tips to increase productivity, best practices, recommended reads and much more thanks to this keynote that was done at Conector on July 21st 2015 by our CMO Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit
This deck walks you through a perspective of what it takes to be consistently good at what you do. No matter what you offer, how you sell or where your business goals area headed, these best practices we value at Netfor are sure to help you form your own framework of success. We take our lead from the ITIL Framework, two decades of customer experience work and a desire to be the best we can be at every turn.
Effective Telepresence and Remote CollaborationWill Button
Remote workers have become a mainstay, whether dealing with outsourced staff, work from home employees, or remote offices. These slides are from the Phoenix DevOps Meetup (07/27/2016) where I spoke about tips, tools, and techniques to enable better communication across remote teams.
Science of Teams - a glimpse into some of the science of teams. These slides are only useful with the Game itself and a paper that supports the science. All of which are at agilepainrelief.com
Make sure that you manage your business projects, rather than having your projects manage you.
Turn your business goals into reality by dividing them into a series of projects. Projects with a clearly defined end-point. Projects that can be controlled and managed. Projects that succeed.
Equip yourself with the mindset of a project manager, the single-minded focus required to achieve major goals, and the discipline to make sure the small things are not forgotten. Learn how to balance the project management triangle of Scope, Time & Cost.
There might be some hard decisions to make along the way - this is the true cost of getting what you want.
The Failure of Agile, 8 Reasons Why Agile Projects Fail, Why Agile Isn't Working, there have been a lot of articles recently on the shortcomings of Agile... So maybe it's time to got back to a more traditional waterfall approach to project management? Or is it a matter of implementing Agile properly? Maybe you should use Kanban instead of SCRUM? As a Team Lead, how can you help your team succeed at Agile?
Talk by Piergiuliano Bossi at TeamLeadTO meetup on 2015-12-08. See http://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Software-Team-Lead-Meetup/events/226570505/
Nailing Distributed Development With Effective Collaboration - Matt RyallAtlassian
Distributed teams put additional strains on what is fundamentally a communication and collaboration challenge in building software. Matt Ryall, senior development manager for Confluence, shares his experience on how Atlassian and several of our clients are using collaboration tools like Confluence and HipChat to help overcome geographic boundaries, and ship great software on time.
Ever hire someone and have it “just not work out”? How long did that take to figure out? Weeks? Days? Before your morning coffee?
Hiring, firing and retention are some of the most difficult tasks that a business faces. And we all make mistakes. The tech industry is currently in the middle of a competitive hiring bubble and it’s really hard to find good people. It’s even harder to retain them. So how do you find good people, and keep them?
We’ll show what mistakes we’ve made in our combined 30 years in open source and tech.
Slides for presentation at the 2011 Beyond Hope Library Conference in Prince George, BC. includes the steps for developing your own eReader lending program.
LeanKit Webinar: Evolving Your Daily Standup with Kanban by Brendan WovchkoLeanKit
Have your daily standups become stale? Discover how to reinvigorate the conversation by focusing on the core principles of Kanban.
Brendan Wovchko of HUGE I/O will explain how to engage teams with meaningful questions that surface problems, reduce process waste and improve the flow of work.
You'll learn how to:
- “Walk the board” with Kanban
- Experiment with fresh questions and techniques
- Decide if your daily standup really needs to be daily
Enabling your team to identify improvement opportunities on a daily basis promotes self-organization and keeps the focus on delivering value.
How to Unlock the Hidden Potential of Your Team With a Results-Only Work Envi...Michael Reynolds
SpinWeb is a digital agency founded in 1996 and became a Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) in 2008. This has been the single most significant and revolutionary change our agency has ever implemented. ROWE is more than flexible hours, more than telecommuting and more than a “virtual” workforce. It is a mindset shift that has enabled us to be more efficient than ever before, recruit and retain the best talent available, and lead a happy and productive team.
Learn how to balance work/life in a ROWE, how to lead without micro-managing, how to use the right tools and technologies to keep everything running smoothly, and how to embrace a culture where there is no work schedule, no limits on vacation time, and all meetings are optional.
Learning points and takeaways:
* How to empower your team to do the very best work
* How to recruit and retain the very best people
* How to communicate and collaborate in a virtual environment
* How to set up the right processes for maximizing efficiency
The intersection of Agile/Scrum and the Behavioural Psychology of Teams. There is a science behind building teams. This presentation outlines **some** of it.
Tailoring Confluence for Team ProductivityAtlassian
Are your teams used to Confluence out-of-the-box and want to take their productivity to the next level? Are you ready to extend Confluence to support the way your teams want to work? In this presentation we will reveal 3 content tailoring strategies that will free your teams' time. Included will be walkthroughs of extending Confluence with scripts, blueprints, macros and more of the latest Confluence Platform capabilities. Whether you are an eager wiki champion with scripting knowledge, an in-house software developer or an ecosystem developer, this session will get you started on creating awesome tailored solutions for your teams.
How to Effectively Manage a Remote Team - 12 Best PracticesMikogo
Remote work definitely has its advantages but also comes with its own unique challenges. With team members working in different locations, how can a remote team leader keep his or her team interconnected, on track, and productive? Well, it starts with reinforcing remote team best practices and understanding why these practices are successful in getting results.
This free guide includes 12 best practices to teach you best practices that foster positive working relationships, enhance team productivity, and in general position you and your remote workers for success.
In this talk I cover the reasons why you may want to use a remote team, the skillsets to consider when hiring a remote team, and tools, issues, pros and cons, and communication in managing remote teams.
Presented at the Sharatoga Tech Talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs4GS4uHEIY
Science of Teams - a glimpse into some of the science of teams. These slides are only useful with the Game itself and a paper that supports the science. All of which are at agilepainrelief.com
Make sure that you manage your business projects, rather than having your projects manage you.
Turn your business goals into reality by dividing them into a series of projects. Projects with a clearly defined end-point. Projects that can be controlled and managed. Projects that succeed.
Equip yourself with the mindset of a project manager, the single-minded focus required to achieve major goals, and the discipline to make sure the small things are not forgotten. Learn how to balance the project management triangle of Scope, Time & Cost.
There might be some hard decisions to make along the way - this is the true cost of getting what you want.
The Failure of Agile, 8 Reasons Why Agile Projects Fail, Why Agile Isn't Working, there have been a lot of articles recently on the shortcomings of Agile... So maybe it's time to got back to a more traditional waterfall approach to project management? Or is it a matter of implementing Agile properly? Maybe you should use Kanban instead of SCRUM? As a Team Lead, how can you help your team succeed at Agile?
Talk by Piergiuliano Bossi at TeamLeadTO meetup on 2015-12-08. See http://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Software-Team-Lead-Meetup/events/226570505/
Nailing Distributed Development With Effective Collaboration - Matt RyallAtlassian
Distributed teams put additional strains on what is fundamentally a communication and collaboration challenge in building software. Matt Ryall, senior development manager for Confluence, shares his experience on how Atlassian and several of our clients are using collaboration tools like Confluence and HipChat to help overcome geographic boundaries, and ship great software on time.
Ever hire someone and have it “just not work out”? How long did that take to figure out? Weeks? Days? Before your morning coffee?
Hiring, firing and retention are some of the most difficult tasks that a business faces. And we all make mistakes. The tech industry is currently in the middle of a competitive hiring bubble and it’s really hard to find good people. It’s even harder to retain them. So how do you find good people, and keep them?
We’ll show what mistakes we’ve made in our combined 30 years in open source and tech.
Slides for presentation at the 2011 Beyond Hope Library Conference in Prince George, BC. includes the steps for developing your own eReader lending program.
LeanKit Webinar: Evolving Your Daily Standup with Kanban by Brendan WovchkoLeanKit
Have your daily standups become stale? Discover how to reinvigorate the conversation by focusing on the core principles of Kanban.
Brendan Wovchko of HUGE I/O will explain how to engage teams with meaningful questions that surface problems, reduce process waste and improve the flow of work.
You'll learn how to:
- “Walk the board” with Kanban
- Experiment with fresh questions and techniques
- Decide if your daily standup really needs to be daily
Enabling your team to identify improvement opportunities on a daily basis promotes self-organization and keeps the focus on delivering value.
How to Unlock the Hidden Potential of Your Team With a Results-Only Work Envi...Michael Reynolds
SpinWeb is a digital agency founded in 1996 and became a Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) in 2008. This has been the single most significant and revolutionary change our agency has ever implemented. ROWE is more than flexible hours, more than telecommuting and more than a “virtual” workforce. It is a mindset shift that has enabled us to be more efficient than ever before, recruit and retain the best talent available, and lead a happy and productive team.
Learn how to balance work/life in a ROWE, how to lead without micro-managing, how to use the right tools and technologies to keep everything running smoothly, and how to embrace a culture where there is no work schedule, no limits on vacation time, and all meetings are optional.
Learning points and takeaways:
* How to empower your team to do the very best work
* How to recruit and retain the very best people
* How to communicate and collaborate in a virtual environment
* How to set up the right processes for maximizing efficiency
The intersection of Agile/Scrum and the Behavioural Psychology of Teams. There is a science behind building teams. This presentation outlines **some** of it.
Tailoring Confluence for Team ProductivityAtlassian
Are your teams used to Confluence out-of-the-box and want to take their productivity to the next level? Are you ready to extend Confluence to support the way your teams want to work? In this presentation we will reveal 3 content tailoring strategies that will free your teams' time. Included will be walkthroughs of extending Confluence with scripts, blueprints, macros and more of the latest Confluence Platform capabilities. Whether you are an eager wiki champion with scripting knowledge, an in-house software developer or an ecosystem developer, this session will get you started on creating awesome tailored solutions for your teams.
How to Effectively Manage a Remote Team - 12 Best PracticesMikogo
Remote work definitely has its advantages but also comes with its own unique challenges. With team members working in different locations, how can a remote team leader keep his or her team interconnected, on track, and productive? Well, it starts with reinforcing remote team best practices and understanding why these practices are successful in getting results.
This free guide includes 12 best practices to teach you best practices that foster positive working relationships, enhance team productivity, and in general position you and your remote workers for success.
In this talk I cover the reasons why you may want to use a remote team, the skillsets to consider when hiring a remote team, and tools, issues, pros and cons, and communication in managing remote teams.
Presented at the Sharatoga Tech Talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs4GS4uHEIY
How to Build a strong Remote Team @ Centroom, Białystok 2015Marcin Zajkowski
Follow up for our blog post about working remotely (http://www.wearesicc.com/does-working-remotely-really-work/). Group of tips & tricks with advantages and dissadvantages of telecommuting work. How we do it in SICC and what we improved in three years of our remote work.
While there are plenty of reasons to ‘be there in person’, having a local team also comes with costs and limitations. Sometimes, the right skills are simply not available in the local community. In other cases, a trusted team member moves away, temporarily or permanently, or changes his or her work hours. It is often a lot easier to continue working with the person remotely, than to take on a significant risk of finding a replacement that will be in the team room, in person, during regular hours. With the right approach, it is possible to have a very successful team, that allows for flexibility over time and distance.
In this talk, we will discuss the issues and solutions for managing a long-distance team, the difficulties of management over the long distance, the technologies and the gadgets that are designed to be helpful, but are not always.
Getting everyone on the same page is vital for the success of any agile effort. Systematic, visual representations – maps of the user experience -- help align team towards a common goal. You’re probably already familiar with mapping techniques already out there: journey maps, experience maps, user story mapping and more.
But how do we apply these techniques in remote teams? The shared understanding that visualizations offer seems to get lost when interacting through Slack, Skype and the like. For sure, better tools can help remote collaboration, but ultimately distributed UX design requires a new set of skills.
Culture in any team is important, but remote (telecommuting) teams come with special consideration in making employees feel like they're a part of something great. Building this connectedness is difficult, but with some simple understandings, you'll equip yourself and team with the knowledge to build a strong team that lasts.
Learn more at http://www.sqwiggle.com
Use Lean Startup Techniques on a Remote Team by William Donnell - The Lean St...Lean Startup Co.
A lot of distributed companies use Lean Startup techniques for product development. But it's challenging to successfully run customer development and cross-functional experiments with remote colleagues. William Donnell, lead design and UX specialist at Sodium Halogen, teaches the creative techniques his team uses for very effective Lean Startup approaches on a virtual team.
5 Steps to (Remote) Team Bliss: How to Build Thriving, High-Performing (Remot...Harvard Web Working Group
Description: Jen will discuss tools and tips for evoking the best performance from every team member – even when they’re never in the same room! She’ll reveal how to be a superstar mentor and how to GTD so that teams run like well-oiled machines. In sum, this will be a talk about how anyone who leads teams can leverage the power of people skills to making a positive difference in the world.
Bio: An expert in the science of organizations, Dr. Jennifer Bunk has extensive experience teaching diverse audiences how to apply science to make workplaces better. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Connecticut in 2006. After 10 years in the academic world, she launched Jen Bunk Ventures and People Stack Academy. As a tech leadership coach, she helps tech managers build thriving, high-performing teams. She has also served a variety of organizations in Greater Boston including coding bootcamps and local meetup groups. http://peoplestackacademy.com http://jenbunk.com/
Some think working remotely is a terrible setting that takes control away and let's employees stay at home and be useless. Others find that remote work increases overall productivity and lowers the need to micromanage.
And both sides might be correct as remote work, like all other structures, work really well for some and make others crazy.
The only thing that we can say for certain is that telecommuting is increasingly popular and there are problems you need to face to make it work.
Join us on our latest webinar presentation with guest speaker, Dave Grundy. Dave has enjoyed a varied and interesting career spanning military, public and private sectors and a breadth of organisations, including SMEs.
A common thread in his work has been creating clarity from chaos, developing high performance teams and delivering results that impact on organisations and their employees.
Dave works with Leaders, Managers, Supervisors and Teams to develop and improve organisational and personal performance.
This webinar presentation will help you:
1. Gain clarity and focus on the characteristics of a winning team
2. Identify the role and competences needed to be an effective team leader
3. Learn great, high impact questions to ask in organisations
as well as providing lots of practical and simple tools based on experience and learning.
“We could all use a little coaching. When you’re playing the game, it’s hard to think of everything.” JIM ROHN
"Earthsoft Foundation of Guidance (EFG) is working as an NGO/NPO for students - Education & Career guidance and for Professionals for soft skills enhancements. We are working speading , sharing knowledge; experience globally.It has uploaded important presentations at http://myefg.in/downloads.aspx. Also visit www.slideshare.net and search using key word - earthsoft Read http://tl.gd/jm1gh5 and view picture http://twitpic.com/cept60 http://www.slideshare.net/rrakhecha/efg-activities-of-one-year27-mar2013 Be mentor using your education, knowledge & experience to contribute for a social cause & do conduct free training/ workshop seeking help of existing platforms Kindly spread to your friends.Thank you! - Earthsoft Foundation of Guidance
Let us make earth little softer.."
After seeing a recent presentation from Dave Cava on the topic of Scaling Your MSP Business to Maturity, we knew our community would find that his experiences hit home, so we asked him to speak with us in a webinar session.
As the co-Founder and COO of a New York-based firm that specializes in managed services for alternative investment firms, Dave offers real-life advice on the phases of MSP Business Maturity. With Dave's insights, you'll not only understand where your business is currently at in the process, but you'll also walk away with actionable advice for the next steps in your journey.
The discussion originally appeared as a live webinar and answered questions such as:
- What needs to happen for an MSP to grow from infancy to healthy, full-blown adulthood?
- How do your team and your service offering need to evolve to stay on track as you grow?
- and so much more!
* Get free access to the complete webinar recording at: http://info.brightgauge.com/stages-of-msp-maturity-webinar
Agile speaks of putting people first; however in my experience, people are the poor stepchild to process and tools. It’s not about getting scrum teams “more agile” it’s about shaping the organization's culture to support agile development. It’s necessary to understand the areas needed to create a culture that supports agile development. We have to wonder, are we asking ourselves the right questions? How do we engage our staff to create an agile workforce? How do we hire the right people? What is a manager's role in this new self-organized culture? How do we motivate those people? How do we connect them with the customer? It’s about embodying the spirit of agility to get all the magic of a startup and scaling that across a large organization.
In this session, we will talk about building your organization’s culture to support scaling organizational agility to keep the team passionate and purposeful.
Format: Presentation
Target Audience: Agile Coaches, Human Resources, Leaders, and Change Agents
Technology increasingly permeates every facet of modern business, from communications to CRM systems and customer analytics. IT and Digital have been drawn from a background support function and re-positioned as a core driver of strategy, value creation and competitive edge. This tectonic shift has placed senior technologists at the heart of the organisation, making them integral to decision making and leadership.
The DIGIT Leader Summit will explore this evolution of Information Technology as a discipline, discussing the increasing role of senior technologists in driving innovation and efficiency and shaping business strategy within their organisation. The programme will also consider some of the crucial components of leadership, looking at culture, vision, team building, up-skilling and communication.
The Summit is geared for senior IT and Digital leaders and is designed to promote knowledge exchange, best practice and collaboration in a friendly open forum. The event will be held at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh on 24th May 2017 and will be free for delegates to attend.
What's Next: Using technology to engage employees and build businessesOgilvy Consulting
Never before has technology been such an enabler for people and teams as it has since the COVID-19 crisis. While remote working is not new for many organisations, the extent and time is, which businesses are anticipating workforces to be completely virtual. How people engage virtually with each other sits at the heart of business recovery and future business continuity planning.
Get Novel Insights on Increasing Branch Sales with Technology
The complimentary FMSI Branch Sales white paper focuses on a solution to address maximizing your branch technology investments and staff selling potential, through a new scheduling approach that:
• Transforms vague daily staff schedules into easily tracked and deliberate sales task assignments—per 15 minute increment.
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• Increases the time your top performers spend conducting sales related activities.
HOW TO ADOPT A SERVANT LEADERSHIP MINDSET AT YOUR ORGANIZATIONHuman Capital Media
In most organizations, the leaders are the ones that hold the power. Their leadership style resembles one of a traditional hierarchy, where the leaders sit on a pedestal while making commands, have the control, and demand certain outcomes from their employees. Servant leaders are disrupting this traditional style of leading by putting the employees first, and research is finding that this disruption of the leadership status quo has many benefits.
Join Libby Powers from BizLibrary, as she explains the positive outcomes of leading from last. Adopting a servant leadership mindset will not only improve the leadership skills of the person who leads, but the whole organization will flourish with improvements in common business challenges like employee engagement and retention.
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
The qualities of a servant leader
How to transform command-control leadership into a serve-first mindset
Why companies need more servant leaders
Carole Teacher from Mott MacDonald presented a session at 'LearningNow: Induction strategies that work' on 25th September. Her session was about the challenges and solutions of bringing new senior managers on board.
Kontextdrivna krav - effektiv kravställning för din organisationADDQ
Det blir allt kortare produktlivscykler, krav på snabbare time to market och kvalitet ses inte längre bara som en hygienfaktor utan som ett måste. Därför är det viktigt att förstå förutsättningarna och anpassa kravarbetet så att du löser behoven på effektivaste sätt. Vilka är dessa förutsättningar, hur påverkar de ditt projekt och hur anpassar man arbetet för att uppnå mesta möjliga affärsvärde?
Hamish Duff - Make or Break - ALGIM Nov 2015Hamish Duff
Exponential change brings a complex set of problems to our organisations - when we barely survive normal, linear change programmes. How will increasing rates of change affect you, and what strategies can you use to address this challenge?
New Explore Careers and College Majors 2024.pdfDr. Mary Askew
Explore Careers and College Majors is a new online, interactive, self-guided career, major and college planning system.
The career system works on all devices!
For more Information, go to https://bit.ly/3SW5w8W
2. Agenda
• How is a Remote Team different?
• Hiring the right people
• Building the team
• Agile management in remote teams
• Communication
• The Challenge – case study
3. How is a Remote Team different?
• Lack of day-to-day communication;
• Harder team bonding;
• Less support from the Boss;
• Language dependency;
• Timezones;
• Motivation; and
• Supervision and monitoring.
4. Hiring the right people
• How to make recruitment effective?
– Agencies;
– Phone calls;
– Video communicators; and
– Live intervievs.
• Features of a perfect candidate:
– Self-motivated;
– Responsible; and
– Resilent.
5. Building the team
• Welcome to the team;
• Team sites;
• Periodic team meetings;
• One-to-ones;
• Recognising work well done;
• Link to the top management; and
• Meeting the manager face to face.
6. Agile management in remote teams
• Is Agile possible in a remote team?
• How to become flexible?
• Important rules:
– Timeliness;
– Responsiveness;
– Trust; and
– Delegation.
7. Communication
• E-mail;
• Cheap online communicator;
• Conference calls;
• Video conferences;
• Telepresence;
• Face to face meetings;
• Productivity tools.
