by Joanie Connell | Mar 17, 2021 | Blog, Diversity and Inclusion, Leadership, Remote Management
“It happens every time. The same people talk and everyone else stays quiet.” Does this sound like your zoom meetings? Have you noticed that the same people keep contributing to meetings while the rest fade into silent observers? Have you asked...
by Joanie Connell | Mar 8, 2020 | Blog, Flexible Work, Leadership, Remote Management
How do you lead your employees who work from home? How do you manage a virtual team? What are the best virtual communication hacks? Two important challenges arise when we ask our employees to work from home. First is the technology challenge and...
by Joanie Connell | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog, Emotional Intelligence, Hiring, Leadership, REAL Life Skills, Values
Do you agree with this? It’s harder to turn someone down than to be turned down. By the way people communicate these days, it certainly seems true. Take, for example, the number of times you’ve emailed someone and they’ve failed to reply. Have you done that to people...
by Joanie Connell | Jun 9, 2015 | News
By Joanie Connell On May 21, we taught the first Rady School Center for Executive Education (CED) course completely in the VirBELA virtual world. The course was aptly titled “Managing High Performance Distributed Teams” and we had participants as far away as England...
by Joanie Connell | Apr 7, 2015 | Blog, Leadership, Remote Management
A colleague told me just today that a client paid for him to travel to have face-to-face meetings because they believed the results were much higher quality than phone meetings. After he flew all the way across the country for a few hours of meetings, he said it was...
