Test Leadership Congress 2020

Building and managing a successful team distributed across different locations, cultures and time zones is not trivial. The dynamics of work for such team is drastically different. Now, as remote workforce becomes the "new norm", you need to learn how to build and effectively manage the distributed teams. Your success depends on it.

Your tutorial instructor has done it for the last 20 year and on every habitable continent. In this class packed with information and tips, Zhenya will cover the benefits of hiring a remote, global team, and will share his experience in developing a rock-solid process for remote collaboration.

Building remote team:
- Proven strategies to attract, engage & retain global talent
- Exploring advantages and risks; cost and ROI calculations
- Different team types: mixed, onshore, and offshore teams, insource and outsource solutions
- How to align interests between you as a manager, your organization, the remote organization and the employee
- How to select a partner
- How to structure a deal where interests of all parties are aligned
- Mitigating security risks

Managing remote team:
- How to make a complex collaboration across cultures, time zones, and languages work smoothly
- How to influence and motivate a remote team
- How to measure remote employee performance
- Overcoming your biases
- Successful management practices

In this class, Zhenya will go over the steps required for building successful distributed teams and share his own experience so you can avoid some of the costly mistakes he has made.