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Leadership Training for Virtual & Remote Work.
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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 & CEO
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 training 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 Creation
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.
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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
10 Tips From 10 Years of Working Remotely
Sacha Connor is celebrating her 10 year remotiversary – a decade of working fully remotely! We know so many of you are hitting your 10 month remote work milestone and have done an incredible job of taking on the rapid transition to remote work with energy and commitment.
Hybrid Organizations: 3 Keys to Keeping Engagement & Productivity High
For most companies, I believe the future will be hybrid (NOT fully remote) – with some people working in offices, some fully remote, and some flexing between the two. Please don’t underestimate the growing pains that will come with this transition.
Focused Remote Work
Have you ever started your day with optimism and a long to-do list only to finish with a deflated or perplexed feeling and most of the list undone?
This is a common story, but easily remedied with a small investment of time.
Video Interviews: 7 Tips for Creating an Inclusive Interview Experience
At first look video conferencing seems like the obvious choice as the optimal communication tool to hold a virtual job interview, but there can be some serious unintended consequences of video interviews that can hinder a company’s diverse candidate pool.
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Sacha's contribution to the book comments on the importance of location inclusion for employee experience and how to achieve a positive dynamic within hybrid teams.
As offices and cities start to slowly reopen, it’s vital we don’t slip back into old ways of proximity as paramount.
In the book, she touches on four key areas that will have a profound effect on EX outcomes in a virtual world of work:
1) New virtual leadership principles and communication norms
2) Career development and hiring
3) Upskilling
4) Creating accountability
#virtualleadership #EXdesign #employeeexperience #virtualwork #hybridteams #locationinclusion #remotework #workfromhome
I recommend to all direct reports that when your manager assigns you a new project verbally that you spend 15 minutes writing out a project brief that plays back the important information. Get your manager's approval of that brief before you move forward and it will prevent re-work, misunderstandings, and missed expectations later.
Suggestions for what to include on the project brief:
1. Project Objective - what is the goal of the work and how does it link to strategy
2. Executional Mandatories - i.e. what must be included in the deliverable
3. Key milestones & progress check-in dates
4. Important stakeholders, roles, & responsibilities
#virtualleadership #remotework #hybridwork #workfromhome #virtualteams #hybridteams #remotemanager
