Your Resource is Human:How empathetic leadership can help remote teams rise above - Softcover

Romo, Melissa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178860394X ISBN 13: 9781788603942

Publisher: Practical Inspiration Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

Remote working is here to stay.

But 65% of remote workers say they feel isolated, and many managers struggle to know how to support them.

In Your Resource is Human award-winning marketer and global remote business leader Melissa Romo explores the five unspoken remote work emotions, and identifies the five remote-ready leadership behaviors that can help all teams, large or small, rise above the sometimes emotional undertow of working apart.

This book aims to give remote leaders the counsel and courage to embrace empathy, adapt their communication and inspire optimism that will drive culture, build connection and help their people do their best work.

Melissa Romo has more than 20 years’ experience as a business leader for FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies around the world and has spent more than a decade building, leading and working in globally dispersed teams. She earned an MBA from the Yale School of Management, where she studied organizational behavior and leadership, has been recognized as a marketing and advertising industry “40 Over 40,” and is a regular speaker on communication, content and community for business events around the world.

About this title

About the Author

Melissa Romo earned an MBA from the Yale School of Management, where she studied organizational behavior and leadership. She is a regular speaker for events around the world, including the Digital Marketing World Forum, Generation Success Breaking Barriers, and the B2B Marketing Podcast, and has been recognized as a global advertising and marketing “40 Over 40”, “Inspirational Woman of the Year”, and “Inclusive Leader”.

In her most recent role as VP of Global Marketing, she leads a globally dispersed team for a leading B2B cloud software firm, and has managed remote employees for more than a decade. She is the author of the historical novel “Blue-Eyed Son,” a WWII-era story about displacement and nationhood, and has been a contributing writer on travel and expatriotism for publications in the UK and Poland. She and her Spanish-born husband live in New York City with their two teenage sons and an adopted Labrador.

From the Back Cover

Remote working is here to stay.

But 65% of remote workers say they feel isolated, and many managers struggle to know how to support them.

In Your Resource is Human award-winning marketer and global remote business leader Melissa Romo explores the five unspoken remote work emotions, and identifies the five remote-ready leadership behaviors that can help all teams, large or small, rise above the sometimes emotional undertow of working apart.

This book aims to give remote leaders the counsel and courage to embrace empathy, adapt their communication and inspire optimism that will drive culture, build connection and help their people do their best work.

Melissa Romo has more than 20 years' experience as a business leader for FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies around the world and has spent more than a decade building, leading and working in globally dispersed teams. She earned an MBA from the Yale School of Management, where she studied organizational behavior and leadership, has been recognized as a marketing and advertising industry "40 Over 40," and is a regular speaker on communication, content and community for business events around the world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Practical Inspiration Publishing
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178860394X
• ISBN 13: 9781788603942
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234