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Personality style has impacts on how we cope with remote work

CLO Magazine

During these unprecedented times we have borne witness to both ends of the behavioral spectrum and everything in between, including hoarding household supplies such as toilet paper, debates over the merits of mask-wearing and sharp increases in pet adoption as one of the more positive consequences. Go lateral.

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Continuous learning with a purpose

CLO Magazine

By the end of the first 60 to 90 days, the company’s entire curriculum was fully virtual. Verizon employees participating in a virtual team session. So to help manage the shift in customer behavior and leverage the skills of our retail workforce, we implemented a retail reskilling initiative.”.

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Effective Leadership is Transformational

CLO Magazine

As time goes by, trust grows between the two whenever either side offers support, keeps their word, expresses appreciation or exhibits other trusting behaviors that lead to goal accomplishment. Team leadership is all about team development and building a community. We live in teams. Our organizations are made up of teams.

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Embracing long-term virtual team and leadership training

CLO Magazine

Do you find yourself frowning at them or gasping in horror at their inappropriate pandemic behavior? But a DDI study found that leaders rank virtual leadership as their weakest skill. In fact, one in four leaders said they aren’t at all effective at leading a virtual team. And now a lot more are working remotely.

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The accelerated transformation of corporate learning

CLO Magazine

We then identified the themes supporting this objective — for example, how to adopt the right mindset in challenging times , mastering technology and working effectively in virtual teams. From there we were able to identify existing quality content — such as learning Zoom , leading virtual meetings and improving listening skills.

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Virtual Simulation: A Participant’s Perspective

CLO Magazine

After finishing her virtual coursework with Microsoft’s Finance Academy, Lauri Zadina, senior finance manager of operations for Microsoft, had this to say: Looking back over the two years since your participation in the program, what knowledge, skills, insight or behaviors did you learn that you continue to use?

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Manage Remotely With Coordination, Not Control

CLO Magazine

“To have effective virtual teams, two of the major ingredients for success are role clarity and trust.” ” Roderick Kramer, a professor of organizational behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, coined the term “swift trust” in his 2013 book, Restoring Trust in Organizations and Leaders.