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Leadership Training for Virtual & Remote Work.
Capabilities for the Future.
When Virtual Leadership Is Done Right, Every Person, Purpose and Profit Grows.
Companies have never been more distributed, with offices and teams spread across the country and the globe. Virtual Work Insider personally coaches teams, executives and companies to thrive across any distance. As the first to establish virtual business driving practices within one of the most respected Fortune 500 companies — we provide the skills and tools to lead, influence and strengthen ties with geographically distributed teams, clients and direct reports. Our 18 years of experience within client-side companies, advertising agencies, and managing external partners, is incomparable. See more…
“I saw first-hand that geographically distributed companies were struggling to achieve business growth and inclusion, so I designed a new way to fully drive results and integrate employees.”
Sacha Connor, Founder and Lead Consultant
Virtual Work Matters More Every Day.
Insider Knowledge Makes a Difference Immediately.
70%
of professionals work remotely at least once a week
CNBC
+20–30%
productivity improvement of distributed teams with the right process and tools.
McKinsey & Company
A New Kind of Modern Leadership is Required
Leaders and Teams Need the Skills to be Effective and Efficient Virtually.
Virtual Work Leadership Training
We specialize in personalized group, or one-to-one, coaching programs to develop the skills to lead and influence virtual teams, manage client and agency virtual relationships, and coach remote direct reports.
Virtual Employee Resource Group
We’ll personally help you create, lead and establish a Virtual Workforce ERG to increase effectiveness and inclusion within your distributed company, coordinating and concentrating the efforts of your D&I, HR, IT, Real Estate and Business strategies.
Speaking
Services
Opening your eyes is the hardest part — to the fact that the workplace is now virtual, that people are spread across office sites with some fully remote, but mostly, that a perspective change is required to succeed in this new reality.
“Sacha was a pioneer of remote work at Clorox; she successfully led a marketing organization and participated on the homecare leadership team while working over 3000 miles away for more than 8 years.”
Chris Hyder
Vice President, General Manager
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Negotiating Remote
Make the right virtual case with an Insider Strategy.
Lead
Plug us in to run your virtual meetings, brainstorming sessions and conferences.
Partner
Introduce us to your new tech platform, tool or software for remote work—so that we can share it with our clients and our following.
Our experience can help you experience the best possible future for your company.
Recent blog posts
New! Breakout Rooms in Microsoft Teams
📣 Breakout Rooms are coming to Microsoft Teams in mid-to-late November 2020! Here's the scoop on how to use it, hot off the presses from Microsoft's communication to admins... Heads Up: You will need to be a meeting organizer to see the Breakout Room button. It will...
How to Get a Remote Job
Watch the video to hear the panel discussion our CEO, Sacha Connor, led with two experts on remote hiring: Laila von Alvensleben, Head of Culture and Collab at MURAL Andrew Gobran, HR/People Ops at Doist Topics covered include: 1. What are the essential...
Large Enterprises: The Reality of Remote Work, Now and in the Future
Check out the video above! Our CEO, Sacha Connor, led a panel of our clients and colleagues to share how they, and the large enterprises they lead, are adapting to remote work during COVID, and what’s in store for the future. This special event was part of Running...
5 Tips to Delete Distance Bias as Some Head Back into the Office
Unprecedented location inclusion is one of COVID’s positive unintended consequences. The office shut-downs have forced so many of us into FROGs* – fully remote organizations. This meant that for the first time, in many companies, all team members were are on an...
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Ask your company to sponsor you as part of your development plan to learn these vital leadership skills for now & the future.
The course - Virtual Leadership: Essential Skills for Leading a Hybrid and Remote Workforce, Now & Post-COVID
Participants will:
➡️ Understand foundational virtual leadership concepts & have awareness of the 4 must-know skill areas to be a successful virtual leader
➡️ Get concrete tips for communicating effectively virtually without resorting to endless meetings & emails
➡️ Be prepared to take a strategic approach to influencing key stakeholders to take action on your ideas, even from a distance
"Taking the Virtual Leadership #Lehigh Executive Education course was a great opportunity to be able to evaluate my organization’s current ability to manage remote work and adapt to changing employee needs. Sacha’s documentation was awesome - it was so easy to take away the framework and really map out where we could make improvements." –
Robin Carey, Senior Associate, Capital One.
Sign up here: https://business.lehigh.edu/executive-education/programs-for-individuals/virtual-leadership
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With Halloween taking a mostly remote stage this year, consider how you can include your co-workers' children - this is the week to bring out the kid in all of us and be a little silly!
For more activity creativity suggestions, read our blog: https://virtualworkinsider.com/2020/03/24/use-activity-creativity-to-drive-remote-team-culture-3/
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