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.
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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.
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Take Action: Reach out to someone from another office and set up a virtual coffee chat for next week. Or reach out to a colleague that works from home and set up a reoccurring virtual coffee chat to stay connected. And make sure you turn your video on!
Some companies even codify these virtual coffee chats by integrating the Donut app (https://www.donut.com/) into #Slack to match people up randomly.
My team did this in an analog way with a spreadsheet that paired up people on our team for monthly coffee chats.
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I provided a section called “6 Tips for Deleting Distance Bias in your Virtual Team” - it gives tangible ideas for what to do if you are a manager, team leader or a team member.
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