Thinking Remote: Inspiration for Leaders of Distributed Teams
About this ebook
Each article has been selected to cover one area of remote leadership practice and is followed by a set of leadership reflections to help you identify your next steps. Considering challenges from wellbeing to technology to communication, this series of articles will empower leaders at all levels to improve their personal practice and their team's performance.
Chapters:
1. Designing the digital workspace: what we can learn from the physical space
2. “Those tools are so last year…”
3. The dangers of ‘working out loud’
4. Now that I’m remote, can anyone see how hard I’m working?
5. Psychological safety in online meetings
6. Is work causing you stress? Going remote is not a magic pill
7. Sick and tired, working and not-working in a remote team
8. Sharing success in remote teams
9. To show frustration, first you need to show you care
10. Creating a culture of feedback
11. Keeping your team visible within your organisation
12. Virtually secure is not enough: information security challenges for remote teams
13. Remote work: anytime, anyplace, anywhere
"At thirteen chapters and 100ish pages, you could conceivably finish this book in a couple of hours. I wouldn’t recommend doing so–if read right, this book works almost as a personal coach." Teresa Douglas, co-author of Secrets of the Remote Workforce.
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About the author
Pilar runs Virtual not Distant, a London-based company working with teams in organisations, who are making the shift from always working in the office together to operating more like a remote team.
She also works as a voiceover artist, popping in and out of London studios regularly. She is the voice of Xuli, in the BBC's animation series "GoJetters".
Pilar hosts the 21st Century Work Life podcast, Management Café and Word Maze, a show about words, books and writing. And the 30 episodes of the Spain Uncovered podcast are still available to download.
