The Unashamed Guide to Virtual Management: Virtual Workforce - Virtual Teams - Virtual Meetings - Virtual Office Romances - Softcover

Bisbee, Ben; Wisniewski, Kathy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1949036553 ISBN 13: 9781949036558

Publisher: Association for Talent Development, 2019

Synopsis

Manage Virtual Teams for Maximum Results
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 working globally, managers need guidance on how to address the traditional and not-so-traditional issues that occur when staff is not collocated.
The Unashamed Guide to Virtual Management provides that direction for topics such as onboarding new staff and delivering performance reviews as well as for the more offbeat issues like handling office romance and doing laundry on the job.
Using short chapters and a fun, whimsical, yet straightforward style, Ben Bisbee and Kathy Wisniewski answer the critical questions about how to manage virtual teams. No matter your problem, you’ll be able to evaluate what went wrong, determine how the solution fits within your organizational personality, and implement a process to make it stick. Rather than scrambling to figure out how to handle an unexpected situation, virtual managers can consult the authors’ advice on more than 30 topics, including:

time zones, flexible schedules, and privacy

hiring and interviews, onboarding, and professional development

team building, morale, and celebrations

interruptive pets and children, errands, and meetings from the bathroom.
From the mundane to the awkward, this book covers it all―because you will have to manage it from wherever you are!

About this title

About the Author

Ben Bisbee is a dreamer, a doer, a madman with focus; the good kind of dangerous. A multi-sector professional with more than 20 years of experience building successful and award-winning community and development programs for organizations of all shapes and sizes, Ben is currently the CVO at Rhinocorn, a design house for nonprofit innovation and advancement projects. Considering himself a social technologist, Ben is quickly becoming known for his work in virtual technology and methodologies, helping to build strengthened relationships between humans and the technology they use to work, play, and engage. Ben lives in northeast Ohio with his husband, Joe, and their 10 cats.

Edition details

• Publisher: Association for Talent Development
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1949036553
• ISBN 13: 9781949036558
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 248