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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 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.
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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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Use Activity Creativity to Drive Remote Team Culture
Driving trust, fun, and inclusion within distributed teams or a remote workforce can be challenging. But, if you want to increase engagement and business results within virtual teams you must have a deliberate plan to enable location inclusion, and that relies...
Influence Customers Remotely
Difficult circumstances, such as those we are living in right now with the spread of coronavirus, can also present opportunities to improve our business practices. As we rapidly move to a remote workforce, many of us are facing challenges keeping our clients...
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I am one of the lucky ones. The commute to my office is less than a minute, usually in slippers with a cup of home-brewed coffee in my hand. I work from my home office in the Philadelphia suburbs and have since 2010. I work from home, but I don’t work from the couch...
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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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