Track Overview
Running Effective Remote Teams
Remote. Distributed. Work-From-Home. Blended. Hybrid. Whatever-your-team-calls-that-thing-you've-been-doing-for-the-last-year. Every single team has experienced change in how they work over the last year. (Yes, even the ones who were already established as distributed teams.) From teams looking to improve an existing distributed practice to those trying to decide if they'll stay "remote", we'll dive deep into what it means to be part of a happy, healthy team. We all know what it's been like for ourselves in the last year and now you'll get a unique opportunity to validate your concerns and learn how the industry leaders are helping teams to enter the next stage of our brave new world.
From this track
Balancing Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication in Virtual Teams
Wednesday May 19 / 09:10AM EDT
Do back-to-back meetings, Zoom fatigue, overworking, and constant interruptions sound familiar? They are common complaints in teams that are struggling to balance synchronous and asynchronous communication.When individual contributors and managers adopt more asynchronous communication practices,...
Tammy Bjelland
CEO @Workplaceless
Hybrid-Remote Done Right: Evaluate the Remote Employee Experience
Wednesday May 19 / 10:10AM EDT
As the world has started to see some light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel with a decline in cases and the distribution of vaccines, employers and employees have begun to prepare for the return to the office in a hybrid-remote setting. For some, the return to the office cannot get here...
Kaleem Clarkson
Chief Operating Officer @blendmeinc
Remotely Operated: Managing Scattered Teams
Wednesday May 19 / 11:10AM EDT
Companies are increasingly recognizing the viability of remote teams, and many managers are finding them tasked with effectively supporting scattered teams. If a company has long embraced the remote model, then this support is done within the context of existing organizational structures and...
Anjuan Simmons
Engineering Coach @helpscout
Remote Teams Panel
Wednesday May 19 / 12:10PM EDT
In the individual sessions, we looked at working remotely from the personal through to the company as a whole. In this panel, we'll hear ways that teams are linking these concepts together to make the experience of working together-but-apart work. It won't be a re-telling of the same...
Kaleem Clarkson
Chief Operating Officer @blendmeinc
Anjuan Simmons
Engineering Coach @helpscout
Tammy Bjelland
CEO @Workplaceless
Speakers from this track
Tammy Bjelland
CEO @Workplaceless
Tammy Bjelland is the Founder and CEO of Workplaceless, a training company that improves remote and hybrid team effectiveness by developing the capabilities workers, managers, and executives need to succeed in distributed environments. With her background in higher education, publishing, edtech,...
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Kaleem Clarkson
Chief Operating Officer @blendmeinc
Kaleem is a husband, father, remote work advocate, people operations professional, and speaker. He is the Chief Operating Officer of Blend Me, Inc a remote employee experience consultancy that helps startups and small businesses onboard, engage and retain their remote teams. With nearly 20 years...
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Anjuan Simmons
Engineering Coach @helpscout
Anjuan Simmons is a technologist with a successful track record of delivering technology solutions from the user interface to the database. He combines his experiences working at Big 4 management consulting companies as well as small technology startups to implement practical solutions that can...
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Track Host
Emma Hogbin
Technical Project Manager & Team Lead at United Nations OCHA
Emma Hogbin leads distributed and remote teams at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). She is the author of O’Reilly’s Git for Teams and is a contributing author to several books on web development.
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