Remote teams around the globe have been under one giant cloud zoom fatigue since last March. Remote leaders must face the fact that it’s been almost a year since they’ve been leading virtual meetings, and to get real with really asking themselves if they are creating engaging virtual meetings. This week, we’re releasing part one of our 2-Part episode on Engaging Virtual Meetings. In this series, we speak with virtual meeting expert, John Chen to learn tips on how to plan engaging virtual meeting...
Jan 26, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 22
How do teams maximize productivity while in a virtual environment? Actually, we have never been set up to be more productive. Today we speak to Jeremy Redleaf, the founder of Caveday, a social community where people unite globally to get focus work done. I went into "the cave" a couple of times over the last few weeks and got more done in three hours than I typically get done in a week. Jeremy Redleaf is a storyteller, entrepreneur, and ginger. He is the head honcho at Brackets Creative , a co-f...
Jan 04, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Wayne Tarken and Stephen Hart are agile practitioners, seasoned educators and experts on building agile HR organizations to transform workplaces. They focus on the application of Agile as a means to manage complex problems that HR leaders face and gain traction in their implementation. The following are their recommendations for succeeding as a leader in today’s world facing a pandemic. Use Agile as a way to enhance your team’s performance: PwC found that projects that use agile practices are 30...
Dec 21, 2020•25 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Be More Transparent Share transparent financial information If your business is hurting for money and you’re considering a new contract that’s not your ideal client, get your team’s input on it. Do they want to work with a not-so-perfect client? Or would they want to lose their hours? What’s the Trade off? Be transparent when a client cuts part of a contract, with the cost of a new contract and most importantly the expenses that go with that contract and allow your team to budget their own proje...
Dec 14, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 19
There are unique challenges leaders face as they lead a hybrid team. Leaders today need to be more authentic, more empathetic, and much more real. Now is the time to demonstrate the authenticity that our team members have always wanted at work, and remember that bringing your authentic self to work is good for business. Have you seen the same resilience in the workforce in reaction to COVID that you’ve seen in children as they adapt? The workforce has shown tremendous resilience. The managers wh...
Dec 07, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 18
What can I do as a leader to create a social bond with my team while working remotely? Proximity (real or perceived) is one of the most important determinants of relationships. Creating those bonds across remote distances includes getting people together to work on tasks together, and this is typically more impactful than classic ‘team building’ or socializing. Whether remote or in person, leaders can help provide that sense of purpose to create those bonds. What’s the big picture? How does my w...
Nov 30, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Today we speak to Tara Rethore, CEO and Strategic Advisor at Strategy for Real on how to create a remote team strategy. First, she explains how to utilize the mindset of taking a company on an adventure in a strategy retreat. Then, she describes the keys to preparing for and leading a successful remote strategy offsite and a secret high tech tool that she uses to keep her teams engaged. As a result, her mantra, which I think we all need to adopt, is to Be Open to Ambiguity…something we all need ...
Nov 23, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 16
With over 15 years’ experience in Human Resource Management and the Wellness Industry Elysia has combined her expertise to partner with businesses to help develop strategies to attract, engage and retain employees. Working within multiple sectors Elysia helps promote a healthy workforce that supports business needs and enhances productivity and engagement. Workplace Wellness Defined Workplace wellness can mean different things to different people. To Elysia, workplace wellness means both the emp...
Nov 16, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Mike Robbins is the author of five books, including his brand new title, WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER: Creating a Team Culture of High Performance, Trust, and Belonging . For the past 20 years, he’s been a sought-after speaker and consultant who delivers keynotes and seminars for some of the top organizations in the world. His clients include Google, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, Genentech, eBay, Harvard University, Gap, LinkedIn, the Oakland A’s, and many others. He and his work have been featured in t...
Nov 09, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Today on Team Anywhere, we interview Dr. Liane Davey, to learn how to master conflict remotely. Known as the Water Cooler Psychologist, Liane is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review and frequently called on by media outlets for her experience on leadership, team effectiveness, and productivity. As a conflict-avoider herself, (well she is Canadian,) she has dedicated her life to helping individuals and teams master conflict. Liane is a New York Times Bestselling author of three bo...
Nov 02, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Today we learn how to partner with our employees with Gary Magenta, four-time author, customer experience guru, and Senior Vice President at Root, Inc. Gary is a highly sought-after media resource and keynoter speaker for client events, industry conferences, and business strategy and human resources seminars. Gary shares how allowing greater flexibility, being transparent, and giving more trust to our employees is contributing to higher engagement scores. Overall, leaders over the last 8 months ...
Oct 26, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 12
On today’s podcast we interview Stephen Shapiro, hall of fame speaker, innovator, instigator, author, and advisor at 24/7 Innovation. I was really excited to have Stephen use his latest book, Invisible Solutions, 25 Lenses that reframe and help solve difficult business problems, to help us come to better solutions for today’s dispersed workforce. The pandemic has caused fear, uncertainty, and isolation, and Stephen shares that the only way to find solutions in this unprecedented time is to learn...
Oct 19, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 11
On today’s podcast, we interview Anne Maltese, Director of People Insights, at Quantum Workplace . Quantum Workplace provides the data and insights to The Best Places to Work , the contest that honors superior organizations where voices are heard, cultures are thriving, and employees are engaged. In a recent study of workplace engagement, Quantum Workplace studied 1.2 million employees and contrasted engagement scores from March-May 2019 with engagement scores from March-May 2020. This is what t...
Oct 13, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 10
In today’s episode of Team Anywhere we interview Phil Lewis, Founder Corporate Punk How do you Unlock Potential in today’s remote environment? COMMUNICATE AND CONNECT: (1) Communication You must proactively consider how you will communicate in the new remote world. Be mind-numbingly repetitious. Overcommunicate. It is hard for people to absorb everything on the first go round, especially when they are dispersed. (2) Companionship Your job is to build connections that your employees have with eac...
Oct 06, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 9
In today’s episode of Team Anywhere we interview Brian Fox, Founder and CEO of Nimble Learning Strategies. Brian uses many of the principles of Improv to connect deeply with the emotions of teammates, since attention, connection, and acceptance are crucial especially right now. One of the most important rules of Improv is to Accept whatever is happening, whatever it is. In today’s challenging environment, the greatest thing a leader or team member can do is to accept and connect to what is going...
Sep 29, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Cindy Zhou, Chief Marketing Officer at LogRhythm , is based in Boulder, Colorado, and leads a team around the globe. Cindy led teams as an executive at IBM and has worked with startups. Cindy talks about utilizing the principles of Agile by having a daily standup and doing a lot of skip-level one-on-ones. Through Cindy's interview, you'll find how to be a more connected, trusting, and vulnerable leader as you lead your “team from anywhere." Great Quotes from this episode: “Our company is no comp...
Sep 21, 2020•36 min
Bryan Ware is the Assistant Director for cyber security at CISA, and was the CEO at both Digital Sandbox and Haystax . In this new world of remote teams, Bryan emphasizes the importance of transparency, intention, and over-communicating. Bryan insists that the most important thing you can have in a highly effective team is news traveling fast, especially bad news. Bryan encourages relooking at how, where and when to have specific meetings. Bryan has implemented senior leadership team on-sites wh...
Sep 14, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Rachel Casanova, Senior Managing Director at Cushman & Wakefield , focuses on workplace innovation by helping business owners maximize the experience of their unique culture by leveraging their real estate, whether it is at the office, the home, the hub, or any combination in between. Key points Business owners and leaders will need to become more retail oriented towards satisfying their customers, the employees to make sure just like in retail, there's a solid reason to come to work, and th...
Sep 07, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Jonathan Aberman Dean and Professor of practice at the School of Business and Technology at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. Managing Director, Amplifier Advisors and Chairman and Managing Director of Tandem NSI . In this episode, Jonathan shares an underlying theme of servant leadership and using strategy as teams tackle challenging problems like transferring to a virtual work environment and dealing with despair. Jonathan explains the importance of not letting technology work again...
Aug 31, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 4
How to attract – Go deeply into your purpose Create an engaging and purposeful culture 75% of the workforce will be millennials by 2025. Millennials say that culture and learning is more important than pay. Millennials want to connect to a “Purposeful” Culture Focus your actions and conversations on (1) why you are in business, (2) what do you do as company that connects to the purpose, (3) how does your company make a difference, and (4) how does an individual at your company make a difference ...
Aug 18, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 3
The First Rule to build Connection is that no matter what, everybody's video camera is turned on. The Second Rule to build Connection is that we always really check in with each other at the beginning of the week. What's the week ahead look like? Are we feeling okay, how was our weekend? Do we have any stories to share? The Third Rule to build Connection is twice a week we send an email that is meant to share photos and share prompts to answer, such as, what are you looking forward to in 4-6 mon...
Aug 17, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Design Your Values to Support a Remote Only Company. To do that requires that you design a company that focuses on Generosity Design Your Company that measures its success on how people feel every day. How do your managers make each employee feel? How does each colleague make the other colleagues feel? How the purpose of the business makes each employee feel? Making a Family First Environment: If someone is going through something, ask how can I help you? How can I take something off your plate?...
Aug 16, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 1
