Managing remote teams

1. Managing
Remote
Team

2. Agenda
Challenges
What can you do?
Demonstration
Q&A
1
2
3
4

3. Mladen Tomov

4. Question
What’s most challenging
for you and your team
right now?
(regarding remote work)

5. Working Remote

6. Trends
30%
Increase of demand
for remote till 2030
64%
Professionals can
work anywhere
71%
Organizations with
remote policies
Source : Gartner

7. Challenges

8. Relationships

9. Communication

10. Leadership

11. What can you do?

12. …a small number of people with
complementary skills who are
committed to a common
purpose, performance goals,
and approach for which they
hold themselves mutually
accountable
Katzenbach and Smith, The Wisdom of Teams , 45.

13. Time
Effectiveness
Forming
Team is dependent on the
leader
Storming
Leaders mediates and
focuses
Norming
Leader facilities
Performing
Leader delegates and
overseas

14. What we rarely
discuss
What we typically
discuss
Goals Roles
Skills
Plans
Values
Norms
Purpose
Personal
agendaNeeds
Strengths
Weaknesses

16. Tools

17. Servant Leadership
EmpatheticEthical
Supportive Collaborative
Adaptive

18. Collaboration

19. ENGAGE
Distribute airtime so
everyone should have a
chance to speak
VISUALIZE
It helps everyone to be
on the same page and
limits misunderstanding.
FACILITATE
Good facilitation is
important for effective
remote teamwork during
a meeting
SOCIALIZE
Socialize over a video
with your team, or one on
one
AGREE
Agree as a team on how
you are going to work,
decide and communicate

20. Demonstration

21. http://theteamcanvas.com/use/

22. Takeaways
• Remote way of working is
here to stay
• Good relationships and trust
are even more important
working remote
• Use proper tools to make the
remote work more engaging
and productive
• Be a servant leader of your
team
• Diverge and converge to
promote collaboration and
decisions making

23. Upcoming
Agile
Trainings
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® – 27 April 2020
Scrum Product Owner Professional – 4 May 2020
Scrum Master Professional Foundations – 21 May 2020

24. Q&A

25. Thank you!
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Mladen Tomov
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