Going Remote: How the Pandemic is Transforming Our Working World | S1E002

When the Covid-19 pandemic changed the way we live and work, no one was prepared for the extent of these changes or how long they would need to stay in effect. Leaders are trained to handle upheaval, but this health crisis presented a long-term challenge that disrupted our global economy at its core.

Here we are, nearly two years later, still reacting to the reverberations of that disruption. The role of leaders has changed, and it’s likely that things aren’t going back to the way they were. Remote work and hybrid arrangements are the next normal. Leaders have to perform their roles differently by leaning further into trust, beyond resistance and discomfort, and learn how to effectively manage from afar.

Listen as Debra discusses the challenges that Covid-19 has presented both inside and outside of the workplace. We’ll break down the new understanding we’ve gained about the evolving role of leaders and share a few interesting statistics from employee and leadership perspectives when it comes to working remotely.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• Survey statistics regarding remote work among employees during the Covid-19 pandemic (2:00)
• 4 workplace models we can expect to see in the future (4:57)
• Benefits of adopting a more global static hybrid model of remote work (8:49)
• The challenges for remote leaders in a hybrid team scenario (10:59)
• How the increasing demand for flexibility will affect the workplace of the future (15:48)
• The biggest challenges organizations faced when Covid-19 hit (17:29)
• Pleasant surprises that have come from the remote work model (19:53)

Resources Mentioned in this episode:

• Book: Remote Leadership: Successfully Leading Work-From-Anywhere and Hybrid Teams by Debra A. Dinnocenzo and Jason Morwick
• Tools for Remote Leaders: VirtualWorks - Free Resources

About the Host:

Debra A. Dinnocenzo is president and founder of VirtualWorks!, a consulting and training firm that specializes in virtual work issues. Debra is a dynamic keynote speaker, innovative educator, impactful coach, seasoned executive, and successful author. She is the co-author of the recently released book, REMOTE LEADERSHIP – Successfully Leading Work-from-Anywhere and Hybrid Teams, as well as several other books on remote and virtual teams.

Since publishing her first book on telecommuting in 1999, Debra has been a pioneer in the shift to virtual work and remote leadership. Few practitioners in the field have the depth of knowledge and hands-on experience that distinguishes Debra in the hybrid workplace and remote leadership space. As a nationally recognized expert in remote workplace and distance leadership, Debra has spoken widely on related topics, and developed and taught "Leadership in the Virtual Workplace," an online graduate-level course offered by Duquesne University. Previously, Debra was a teleworking executive and has worked from her home office for more than two decades.

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