PLD Meetup – “Leading High-Performing and Engaged Dispersed Teams”

Farwell’s Professional Leadership Development (PLD) Meetup for area project management leaders convened on Friday, April 7th, 2017, and featured a presentation from Rachel Breitbach, Organizational Change Consultant at Farwell. Rachel’s presentation focused on how organizations can lead high-performing and engaged dispersed teams.

– GlobalWorkplaceAnalytics.com

Key takeaways include:

• Why do organizations launch distributed work programs?
  • Globalization and geographic diversification
  • Talent attraction and retention
  • Cost and expense reduction
  • Environmental impact reduction
  • Business continuity enhancement
  • Employee risk mitigation
  • Enhances company culture
• Framework for successfully engaging and leading dispersed teams
  • Know yourself and your leadership tendencies
  • Prepare for dispersed team dynamics
  • Establish environment of trust and lead your dispersed team to excellence
• Build a remote work community
  • Establish routines
  • Ensure connectivity
  • Maintain social benefits of co-location
  • Build relationships
  • Provide capability
• Leading your dispersed team
  • Share vision / goals
  • Establish SMART performance objectives for each team member
  • Share communication exceptions
  • Set clear policies and guidelines
  • Create guidelines for issue resolution
  • Establish productivity ground rules
  • Setup a check-in policy
  • Ask about team member’s own expectations

Source: GoFarwell.com