The Long-Distance Team

Designing Your Team for Everyone's Success

Kevin Eikenberry, Wayne Turmel

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
18 April 2023

Business & management

Design and cultivate remote work teams that actually work.

Design and cultivate remote work teams that actually work.

From the experts who brought you The Long-Distance Leader and The Long-Distance Teammate comes the proven and practical guide for leaders to consciously design teams, define and create their desired culture, and encourage and nurture employee engagement-all from a distance.

Team design and culture are often presented as separate concepts when they are in fact intertwined in the remote work setting. Using the 3C model of communication, collaboration, and cohesion, leaders will be given the tools to overcome challenges, such as proximity bias and deteriorating social connections, to create an environment where everyone can contribute and add value equally, regardless of location.

The 3Cs are

Communication-While communication is a fundamental part of being human, it is also a critical foundation of successful work. Without it, teams break down.

Collaboration-Remote leaders face the misguided belief that physical presence is required to have a collaborative team. The truth is that proximity has nothing to do with successful collaboration.

Cohesion-This dimension includes decidedly nonstructural aspects, such as relationships, trust, and accountability. While difficult to measure, a team's cohesion is critical to its success.

Using this framework, leaders of all levels will learn to assess, design, and develop their communication channels, methods for remote collaboration, and ability to foster cohesion to build successful long-distance teams. While a hybrid culture will be different, it can, when done right, be better than what existed before.

By: Kevin Eikenberry, Wayne Turmel
Imprint: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9781523003419
ISBN 10: 1523003413
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 18 April 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents Part I: Getting Started 1. What Is a Team, and Why Does It Matter? 2. What Is Culture? Part II: The Building Blocks 3. Establishing Ownership of the Culture 4. Rethinking How We Work 5. The 3C Model for Team and Culture Design Part III: Designing for Success 6. Designing Your Team 7. Redesigning an Existing Team Part IV: Creating Your Aspirational Culture 8. Defining Your Aspirational Culture 9. Building the Micro Inside the Macro 10. Making the Culture Come to Life Part V: Applying Core Principles 11. Applying the Power of Expectations 12. Creating Team Agreements 13. Creating Engagement Conclusion

Kevin Eikenberry is the chief potential officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group. Global Gurus includes him in its World's Top 30 Leadership Professionals. His other books include Remarkable Leadership, From Bud to Boss, The Long-Distance Leader, and The Long-Distance Teammate. Wayne Turmel is the cofounder of the Remote Leadership Institute. He is the author or coauthor of fifteen books, including The Long-Distance Leader and The Long-Distance Teammate. He has been named to Remote Work Junkie's Top 50 Remote Experts and Leaders to Follow multiple times.

Reviews for The Long-Distance Team: Designing Your Team for Everyone's Success

“Kevin and Wayne provide a road map for designing and building (or rebuilding) teams that work well in any environment, whether collocated, remote, or hybrid/flexible. It’s really the guidebook on ‘team first and location second,’ and every team leader should learn from it.” —Rob Simmerman, Senior Operations Director, NAES Corporation “A simple yet powerful guide to helping your team work together, no matter where they work from.” —David Burkus, author of Leading from Anywhere “Creating teams, culture, [and] engagement puts a lot of emphasis on leaders investing some good old blood, sweat, and tears . . . this book gives us a great guide how to do this!” —Ton van de Grampel, Chief Human Resources Officer, Redevco B.V.