Virtual Management

Entrepreneurs often suffer from "superhero syndrome" - the misconception that to be successful, they must do everything themselves. They are not only the boss but also the salesperson, HR manager, copywriter, operations manager, online marketing guru, and so much more. It's no wonder so many people give up the dream of starting a business - it's just too much for one person to handle. But outsourcing expert and "Virtual CEO" Chris Ducker knows how you can get the help you need with resources you can afford.

Conducting performance reviews can be stressful. But these conversations are critical to your employees' development, allowing you to formally communicate with them about their accomplishments relative to their goals. Performance Reviews guides you through the basics.

Are You Running Your Business or is Your Business Running You? Virtual Assistant Assistant is the book for entrepreneurs who are looking for a way to take their business to the next level. If you've ever caught yourself thinking there just aren't enough hours in the day, there is a solution. And it won't make you go broke, either. Virtual assistants are essentially telecommuting contractors to your business.

In Influencing Virtual Teams, you'll get step-by-step tactics that you can implement straightaway with your team to improve your team's engagement and commitment to doing their work.

Virtual Training is the definitive guide to delivering virtual training that engages learners and makes new skills and behavioral changes stick. Jeb Blount, one of the most celebrated trainers and authors of our generation, walks you step-by-step through the seven elements of effective, engaging virtual learning experiences.

Work from home? Virtual meetings? Do you want a bond with your work-from-home team but don’t know how to start? This audiobook is here to help you get your virtual team members to communicate, interact, and have even more fun as though they were still in the same place! You will learn everything necessary about how to be a good "virtual leader", and in what ways you can make your team from "good" to "excellent". Then we have 20 simple but super funny virtual team building games prepared for you.

You've been asked to manage a key project—or perhaps you've volunteered for an assignment that could advance your career. So how do you make sure the project succeeds? Managing Projects walks you quickly through the basics.

Whether you're dealing with a problem employee or praising the good work of a colleague, you need to communicate in a way that promotes positive change in others. Giving Effective Feedback quickly walks you through the basics of delivering feedback that gets results.

A well-crafted business plan generates enthusiasm for your idea and boosts your odds of success—whether you're proposing a new initiative within your organization or starting an entirely new company. Creating Business Plans quickly walks you through the basics.

You know you need to delegate some of your work so that you have time to focus on the things that require your expertise. But it's not easy to do.

Virtual working - also known as remote working, telecommuting, flexible working, or homeworking - is an important and growing trend in the global employment landscape. Its popularity has increased due to globalization and outsourcing. However, unlocking the benefits of virtual work depends largely on the organizational culture, management, and leadership to support it. Virtual Leadership identifies the challenges of virtual work and explains how to develop the facilitative leadership mindset to effectively manage people remotely.

Overwhelmed by the sheer volume of work you need to accomplish? Being pulled in different directions by competing priorities? Getting Work Done runs you through the basics of being more productive at work.

Practical ideas, tools, and tips for managing yourself, collaborating with others, and leading other people when working in remote, virtual, and hybrid teams, and when working from home. Based on the latest research and over 25 years’ experience training over 100,000 people in remote and virtual working with over 400 leading organizations around the world. Includes the latest learning from the COVID period global mass experiment in remote working.

By 2025, an estimated 70 percent of the workforce will work remotely at least five days each month. In The Virtual Leader, Takako Hirata, an experienced leader of large international virtual teams, shares her proven methods for thriving in the remote workplace with the help of new leadership principles.

Your boss plays an important role in your career. So how do you navigate this delicate, significant professional relationship without playing political games or compromising your character? Managing Up offers concise, expert tips.

The remote work revolution is here. Even before COVID-19 created the largest remote work experiment in history, the business world was already gravitating toward virtual workplaces. Suddenly organisations as big as Twitter are learning that their employees don’t need an office in order to get great results. How to Thrive in the Virtual Workplace shows how to stay productive, feel like part of a team and make the most of remote working.

It's the 21st century, yet most companies maintain a 20th-century corporate culture. Despite instant communication and collaboration through wireless computers and smartphones, employers needlessly rent or own office space. Bryan Miles has a reality check for you: the future of business is virtual, and it's going to take more than technology upgrades for you to upgrade your workplace environment.

Discover the best-kept secrets that enable ordinary people to run highly successful virtual teams like a pro. Learn from an industry expert as he discloses The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Virtual Teams to the professional looking to build or reinforce their own successful virtual team. By definition, a virtual team is a group of individuals who work across time, space, and organizational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technology.

An audiobook for managers leading remote teams and for employees who want to make a difference...Pilar Orti and Maya Middlemiss reflect on this transition from a change-management perspective, drawn from their experience of working with leaders of distributed teams. Considering challenges from well-being to technology to communication, this series of articles will empower leaders at all levels to improve their personal practice and their team's performance.

Power Teams Beyond Borders: How to Work Remotely and Build Powerful Virtual Teams shows listeners how to unlock the potential of their remote and online teams. Full of actionable advice and concrete strategies, celebrated consultant and author Peter Ivanov offers virtual leaders practical guidance on how to create and sustain online engagement across multiple time zones and cultures.