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Excellent and Eclectic Guidance on Employee Engagement and Virtual Teams

August 19, 2014 by David Zinger 2 Comments

How to Successfully Manage Virtual Teams

Fuze Dialogue on Managing Virtual Teams and Employee Engagement

Nearly 40% of global knowledge workers are now considered “anywhere, anytime” workers and an increasing number of us work in different locations than our managers and teams. Managing people and teams you rarely see in person is a reality, yet very few of us are given tactics and tools to be successful.

In conjunction with Fuze, I invited a panel of experts to discuss how managers can foster better employee engagement and performance among remote staff. No boring slides or sales pitches — just unscripted conversation and practical strategies you can start applying right away. I loved being able to watch the four people talking rather than watching an endless array of data slides flashing by on my screen. The sound quality was excellent.

The guests were:

Wayne Turmel, Author, Meet Like You Mean It

Yael Zofi, Author, A Manager’s Guide to Virtual Teams

Claire Ucovich, Head of People and Culture, Fuze

There is so much offered through this dialogue, here are just a few highlights from the one hour free flowing discussion on mobile management:

  • witness how we, as a four person round table, manage and move through our own technical difficulties as we begin
  • we will have technical glitches in our work, they are inevitable, what is key is how we respond to, and manage, these glitches
  • technology tools are necessary for the job yet only 10% of employees are trained in how to use those tools
  • two thirds of people claim online meeting time is wasted
  • 80% of people only use 20% of the features of collaboration tools
  • learn how work is changing and staying the same
  • hash-tags are great tools for remote workers
  • how do we foster the human connection in our mobile efforts
  • learn about the 3 conflicts in mobile management
  • have a people plan, a communication plan, and a risk management plan
  • ensure your fuse technology with the human connection while getting deliverables out the door.
  • hear about some specific examples of companies who are making good use of mobile tools
  • understand why and how we need to  move from agents of change to agents of connection

I hosted this dialogue and I have watched the recording twice, it is packed with perspectives, practices, examples, and ideas you can use.  This is well worth the 55 minutes it takes to watch and you can always break it up by watching  it over a week with five 11-minute periods. Watch now to improve your mobile management and employee engagement.

Webinar Managing Virtual Teams from Fuze on Vimeo.

David Zinger is an employee engagement speaker and expert who lives in Winnipeg Canada and works throughout the world.

Filed Under: Employee Engagement Tagged With: Claire Ucovich, collaborative leadership, David Zinger Employee Engagement Speaker, Fuze, mobile employee engagement, mobile teams, virtual employee engagement, virtual meetings, Wayne Turmel, Yael Zofi

Employee Engagement Roundtable Discussion for Mobile Managers

August 4, 2014 by David Zinger Leave a Comment

Join Us August 13 10AM PT

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Monday is the 180th birthday of John Venn, the originator of the Venn diagram. As a small tribute to his simple yet powerful diagram structure I have made a venn diagram for an upcoming free webinar/roundtable on employee engagement and mobile management that will be held next week. This is not your typical webinar with a bunch of slides and a sales pitch. This is a one hour dialogue, sponsored by Fuze and hosted on Fuze, to help virtual, remote, and mobile managers foster and enhance employee engagement.

I am so excited to be joined in the dialogue with Wayne Turmel the author of Meet Like You Mean It; Yael Zofi the author of A Manager’s Guide to Virtual Teams, and Claire Ucovich, the  head of People and Culture at Fuze.

Our one hour roundtable dialogue will be unscripted and unrehearsed as we look at how mobile managers can be better at fostering employee engagement with out staff.

To read some terrific tips about mobile management visit my latest post at the Fuze site: http://blog.fuze.com/the-engaging-dozen-12-ways-to-improve-remote-employee-engagement/. You will find a link to register for the round table near the bottom of the post or you can click here to register directly. I look forward to you joining with us on August 13th at 10AM PDT.

David Zinger is an employee engagement expert and specialist who has written 3 books on work and engagement while also founding and hosting the 6400 member Employee Engagement Network. Fuze is a knowledge partner with the Employee Engagement Network committed to supporting and enhancing employee engagement for all.

Filed Under: Employee Engagement Tagged With: Claire Ucovich, David Zinger, Employee Engagement, Fuze, mobile management, mobile work, roundtable, virtual employee engagement, Wayne Turmel, Yael Zofi

Mobile Employee Engagement: Meet Like You Mean It

May 29, 2014 by David Zinger Leave a Comment

Create Engaging Mobile Meetings

(Reading time = 1 minute 51 seconds)

Turmel, Meet Like You Mean It

Wayne Turmel is a master of mobile meetings and his 100 page book imparts his wisdom to you to help you ensure mobile meeting success. I appreciate his concrete tips and actions and how by applying what he offers you will create a more engaging mobile experience. He offers a guide to increasing your comfort, confidence, and competence in creating painless and productive virtual meetings. I especially enjoyed reading the book as this type of book can often be a dry affair but Wayne spices it up with humor and a conversational tone that is inviting and engaging. He offers specific tips and includes checklists and templates to put the ideas to use right away.

Here are a few tidbits that stood out for me as I read his book:

  • virtual meetings suck
  • managers spend 50% of their time in meetings
  • About 66% of participants say webmeetings are a waste of time yet in the United States,  people spend 66 million person-hours per year engaged with these meetings
  • 75% of people who use presentation tools have no training before beginning
  • set up everyone as a speaker or panelist for your meeting, loosen your control and set the stage for collaboration
  • Let everyone write on the whiteboard
  • Get photos of people when they are introduced
  • use mostly uploaded files
  • get participants engaged with polls and other tools
  • transform passive participants into active attendees

This book should be in the library of anyone holding virtual meetings and I believe the practices Wayne outline will offer a wonderful boost to mobile employee engagement. I am conducting some experiments with Fuze on a manager’s influence on mobile employee engagement and will be following a number of the fine recommendations that Wayne made to improve the design and delivery of these experimental manipulations in engagement.

David Zinger Picture May 22 2013

David Zinger is an employee engagement speaker and expert who is quite interested in mobile employee engagement and what we can do to improve engagement for people who spend all or part of their day being connected virtually.

 

 

 

Filed Under: Employee Engagement Tagged With: book review, David Zinger Employee Engagement Speaker, Fuze, Meet Like You Mean It, mobile employee engagement, virtual employee engagement, Wayne Turmel, webmeetings

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