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

Session + Live Q&A Remote Teams

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

Session + Live Q&A Remote Teams

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

Session + Live Q&A Remote Teams

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

PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A Remote Teams

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 Date

Wednesday May 19 / 09:00AM EDT

Topics

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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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