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Companies have never been more distributed, with offices and teams spread across the country and the globe, and teams working in hybrid and fully remote environments. Virtual Work Insider 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 within hybrid and remote teams. 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 in a hybrid model.”
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58%
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Virtual Work Leadership Training
We specialize in personalized group training programs to develop the skills to lead and influence hybrid and remote 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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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
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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.
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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.
New! Polls in Microsoft Teams
📣 Polls are going to be easy to incorporate into Microsoft Teams Meetings by late November - early December 2020! Here's the scoop on the new functionality. Previously in Microsoft Teams, polls could just be created in the Teams chat pane. Now the...
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A few other fun facts about Morgan:
➡️ She is the mom of two kids
➡️ She is pursuing her Phd in Business Management and Leadership with an emphasis on leading and working in a hybrid and remote workforce
➡️ She is a certified International Coaching Federation Coach
➡️ She is an award-winning L&D program designer
➡️ She has co-authored two books on leadership and change
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⏰ According to this report from Qatalog and GitHub, I may have spent 2,200 hours(!) on "Digital Presenteesim" across the 8 years I was a remote work pioneer at The Clorox Company leading large hybrid marketing, innovation and sales teams.
⏲️ Their data shows that workers spend an extra 67 minutes online every day (5.5 hrs/week) to show their colleagues & managers they are still online and working.
My Story:
➡️ When I first went remote in 2010 I was ultra responsive & available, and at all hours, because I was 3 time zones away from my senior leaders, manager, and team.
➡️ Since I was an experiment for Clorox to see if I could lead my teams while remote on the opposite coast of the U.S., I put incredible pressure on myself to prove that I was just as committed and hard working as I had been when I was in the HQ building.
➡️ I also knew that if this experiment didn't go well with me, then it could impact the broadening of workplace flexibility to others in the future.
💡 What I learned:
➡️ I had to reframe my thinking from just simply being accessible and responsive to get credit for working to actually creating an intentional plan for how to influence and mitigate distance bias while remote.
➡️ This is no easy task, but it's a much better return on energy.
➡️ This became a skill we teach in our Influencing Across Distance workshop - how to create a personal virtual influence plan to build exposure & create influence to positively impact business and career outcomes.
Questions:
❓Do you experience Digital Presenteeism?
❓Are you putting pressure on yourself or is it external pressure?
❓How can you focus on what really matters - achieving outcomes & creating team connection?
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