Smart Work: The Ultimate Handbook for Remote and Hybrid Teams

by Jo Owen

In a world still adjusting to the impact of the pandemic, remote and hybrid working is new territory for most people. But many managers can be poorly equipped to deal with the more casual ways of managing in a physical office simply don't work with remote teams, and most tasks will be more challenging when conducted at a distance. Aspects of this will be great news for some managing remote teams can often raise the bar for leaders and managers, as well as for the teams themselves. But office-based, face-to-face leadership, while certainly effective, is often more informal and ad hoc, and a number of basic management tasks can be much harder to complete

- managing workloads and performance;
- resolving problems and miscommunications;
- motivation (and the lack of);
- professional development and ongoing training; and
- identifying, setting and measuring goals and targets.

This new title shows how leaders, managers and team members can raise their games to meet the challenges of 21st century leadership and our new age of working.

208 pages, Paperback

Published September 16, 2021

About the author

Jo is the first person to be awarded the CMI gold medal three times, for Mindset of Success; How to Manage and Leadership Skills Handbook.

He practices what he preaches as a leader: he has started seven NGOs with a collective turnover above $100million annually. He was a partner at Accenture; he started a bank, was sued for $12 billion and was the best nappy (diaper) salesman in Birmingham.

His research on leadership has taken him to the ends of the earth and resulted in Tribal Business School: what modern business can learn from traditional societies. He has worked with over 100 of the best , and a few of the worst, organisations on our planet and has interviewed everyone from spies to sportspeople as well as leaders around the world to find the essence of leadership.

His latest work is on Global Teams, which is the first book to look at the plumbing of globalisation: how global teams do and do not work.

Reviews

[Don · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a good book with useful information. It was a solid read with a good philosophy on leading a remote team. Kind of short, but the advice it did give was actionable and straightforward.