Penny Pullan

Virtual Leadership (eBook, ePUB)

Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The future of work is virtual, with dispersed teams, telecommuting, remote working and virtual meetings becoming the norm across sectors and industries around the world. However leading virtual teams requires a new set of skills and a facilitative leadership approach, Virtual Leadership is here to help.

At its best, virtual working can be productive and creative, tapping into the best people wherever they are and bringing skills and experience together efficiently and at low cost. But it can also lead to isolated and disengaged workers, ineffective communication, and uncoordinated and even counter-productive activity.

Virtual Leadership provides practical strategies, tools and solutions for the key issues involved in managing at a distance. How can I provide leadership, motivation and vision through virtual channels? How do I make virtual meetings effective, engaging and productive, and ensure actions are followed through? How do I create engaged and cohesive teams across distance, cultures and languages? How do I stop virtual team members silently checking out, distracted by local challenges and offline issues?

With diverse case studies and examples, this is the essential guide to making a difference as a leader of virtual work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kogan Page
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780749475970
• Artikelnr.: 45687404

Autorenporträt

Penny Pullan is a thought leader in the field of virtual leadership, specializing in complex change projects involving virtual teams. She is a director of Making Projects Work. Her clients include: Rolls Royce, UK Government, Skandia, PWC, Novo Nordisk, AstraZeneca, Abbott Laboratories, Cummins, Capital One, National Grid, Open University, CAFOD, Save the Children and Christian Aid. Penny Pullan has run the Virtual Working Summit since 2010 with thousands of participants from around the world. In addition, she's a Senior Instructor in Business Analysis for ESI, a leading training organisation. Penny is the co-editor of Business Analysis and Leadership (2013, also published by Kogan Page).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter
01: The ups and downs of virtual working; Chapter
02: Virtual leadership: mindset and approach; Chapter
03: Working virtually with others; Chapter
04: Technology for virtual work; Chapter
05: Leading virtual meetings; Chapter
06: Virtual working in between meetings; Chapter
07: Virtual working complications: time
zones, languages and generations; Chapter
08: Hybrid Chapter
09: Potential pitfalls and how to overcome them; Chapter
10: Inspiration for your virtual leadership

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• • Chapter - 01: The ups and downs of virtual working;
  • Chapter - 02: Virtual leadership: mindset and approach;
  • Chapter - 03: Working virtually with others;
  • Chapter - 04: Technology for virtual work;
  • Chapter - 05: Leading virtual meetings;
  • Chapter - 06: Virtual working in between meetings;
  • Chapter - 07: Virtual working complications: time-zones, languages and generations;
  • Chapter - 08: Hybrid
  • Chapter - 09: Potential pitfalls and how to overcome them;
  • Chapter - 10: Inspiration for your virtual leadership

Rezensionen

"Since the pandemic began, the virtual world has become our oyster. Love it or hate it, we now teach, learn, lecture, attend committees, manage staff, harmonize, hold teambuilding events and get to know and trust one another online. This book is packed with evidence-based tips and useful anecdotes from someone who has operated in this virtual space for more than 20 years. A timely book at a unique time in history." Trish Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford