Your Resource is Human - Melissa Romo

Your Resource is Human

How empathetic leadership can help remote teams rise above

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
2023
Practical Inspiration Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78860-394-2 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
Your people need you more than ever. Practical guidance to help managers of remote teams combat isolation, inspire a cohesive culture, and communicate with insight and empathy.
Remote working is here to stay.

But 65% of remote workers say they feel isolated, and many managers struggle to know how to support them.

In Your Resource is Human award-winning marketer and global remote business leader Melissa Romo explores the five unspoken remote work emotions, and identifies the five remote-ready leadership behaviors that can help all teams, large or small, rise above the sometimes emotional undertow of working apart.

This book aims to give remote leaders the counsel and courage to embrace empathy, adapt their communication and inspire optimism that will drive culture, build connection and help their people do their best work.

Melissa Romo has more than 20 years’ experience as a business leader for FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies around the world and has spent more than a decade building, leading and working in globally dispersed teams. She earned an MBA from the Yale School of Management, where she studied organizational behavior and leadership, has been recognized as a marketing and advertising industry “40 Over 40,” and is a regular speaker on communication, content and community for business events around the world. https://www.melissaromoauthor.com/

Melissa Romo earned an MBA from the Yale School of Management, where she studied organizational behavior and leadership. She has worked as a remote leader for more than ten years and is most recently VP of Global Marketing for a leading B2B cloud software firm, where she leads a globally dispersed team. https://www.melissaromoauthor.com/

Table of Contents

Your Resource is Human: Remote work’s emotional pitfalls and how courageous leadership can help teams rise above

Foreword - Jay Shetty, bestselling author of “Think Like a Monk” and host of the podcast “On Purpose”

Introduction - Who this book is for

Section I - Identifying the 5 emotional pitfalls of remote work

While your people might love the flexibility and independence of remote work, more challenging emotions are at play on some level all of the time. A good leader has a clear-eyed understanding of these and is on the lookout for them at all times.

Diagnostic: How well do you read emotional signals

Chapter 1 - Isolation

How remote work contradicts our human need for connection

Chapter 2 - Guilt

How we punish ourselves for unproductive days

Chapter 3 - Boredom

When the empty room does not inspire motivation

Chapter 4 - Paranoia

Career progression, politics and wondering if ‘out of sight means out of mind’

Chapter 5 - Depression

The devil’s workshop: Being alone during personal crises, existential dread, blues and fatigue

Section II - Behavior blueprints: mastering your remote-ready leadership

Empathetic leadership while remote is different than empathetic leadership in person. This section will help you apply 5 leadership behaviors to help you manage effectively in a remote context, confidently embracing the emotional realities your team are navigating every day.

Diagnostic: How ready are you for remote-ready leadership?

Chapter 6 - Checking in

Questions to ask and how to know when to ask them + 5 conversation starters

Chapter 7 - Building trust

Creating a safe place to confide, and what to say when they do + 5 conversation starters

Chapter 8 - Setting boundaries

How to show care and compassion without being a pushover + 5 conversation starters

Chapter 9 - Managing performance

Balancing high expectations with personal constraints + 5 conversation starters

Chapter 10 - Communicating with optimism

Remote-ready leadership and how the leader is every remote team’s North Star + 5 conversation starters

Conclusion

Further Reading

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Tadley
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Gewicht 270 g
Themenwelt Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Personalwesen
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Planung / Organisation
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10 1-78860-394-X / 178860394X
ISBN-13 978-1-78860-394-2 / 9781788603942
Zustand Neuware
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