Mari Anne Snow joins Bella Engelbach to discuss how remote/distributed teams contribute to team productivity once you apply the right business skills.

Mari Anne Snow joins Angela Gennari on the Pretty Powerful Podcast to discuss the rise of the new flexible, remote workplace and how it provides a distinct business advantage to companies willing to invest in a remote workforce.

Mari Anne Snow joins Tony Lee to discuss remote work during a pandemic - best practices for supporting your team and all the ways you can make remote work a business differentiator.

Mari Anne Snow joins GoLocalProv to discuss the benefits and operational advantages of remote work. She demonstrates how most of us are working remotely far more than we might have imagined - even before 2020.

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Its not just millennials that like remote work these days. No commute, less office distractions and schedule flexibility is attractive to a whole host of talented professionals. More organizations are turning to remote work as part of their offering to maintain their best talent. In this session, participants will learn about the workplace trends related to remote/flexible work and how it is offering a cost-saving alternative for retaining your top talent.

Service providers often find themselves in a situation where they are responsible for executing work for a client in collaboration with others. While the service provider may be the team leader on a project, the people working on the project team don’t report to them. This means the team leader must prove themselves to be a credible leader so the project team will take them seriously and participate fully to meet the project objectives. This session provides participants with specialized techniques for building accelerated team trust and higher degrees of cooperation among team members for greater team success.

As long as there have been people, there’s been conflict. However, today’s technology devices reduce face-to-face interactions between people and that means misunderstandings and conflict often get played out online. Devices make it easier for people to avoid each other; particularly when misunderstandings and conflict occur. In this session, participants will examine the potential consequences of engaging in conflict online and learn practical techniques for deescalating emotion, employing active listening to appreciate different points of view and manage difficult situations with professionalism.

The sales of digital phones have now eclipsed desktops, laptops and tablets. We’re more mobile, accessible and technology-dependent than ever before. Getting someone’s attention is tough because email is no longer the primary source of business communications for every business. No one answers their phone anymore and texting has become an acceptable business practice. Emoji’s are popping up everywhere. So what’s a conscientious Project Manager have to do to get their customer’s attention? In this session, participants will learn about today’s digital communication environment and examine practical techniques for getting and keeping someone’s attention in today’s noisy, digital world.

How do you know you’ve gotten your message across when you aren’t in the room? How do you maximize your digital communication interactions for better results? How do you build trust with people you can’t see and who can’t see you? These are important questions for today’s Project Managers who work with dispersed groups. In this session, participants will learn practical techniques for increasing the effectiveness of their distance communication skills for productive team interaction and higher levels of accountability.

Technology has allowed for easier connection with people in different locations. Flexible work arrangements, virtual teams and the ability to take advantage of remote talent combined with these new tools means Project Managers often have to learn how to build team trust and manage accountability from a distance. Add different generations, level of expertise and all the other human factors that drive individual performance and things can get really complicated. This session provides participants with specialized techniques for building accelerated team trust and higher degrees of cooperation among dispersed team members for greater team success.

Meetings have taken over the modern workplace; more meetings, taking up more time, getting less done. The proliferation of new technology that enables conference calls, video conferencing and screen sharing means meeting management gets more complex as project teams become more dispersed. It takes special skills and focus for Project Managers to conduct productive and efficient meetings. This session provides participants with an easy framework and specialized techniques for maximizing meeting time for successful outcomes and higher levels of productivity through greater accountability.