May 2024
Intermediate
56m
English
video
Tech Leadership Tuesday with Jacqui Read: Standing Out As a Remote Leader with Anjuan Simmons
by Anjuan Simmons, Jacqui Read
Closed Captioning available in German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
Overview
Join Jacqui Read and Anjuan Simmons, staff engineering manager at GitHub, to explore the challenges of steering remote teams and standing out as a remote leader. With less visibility and fewer in-person interactions, remote leadership requires fresh collaboration, motivation, and career development approaches. In this session, you’ll discover key strategies and characteristics that successful remote leaders employ to foster lasting trust and rapport, build influence, strengthen teams, highlight accomplishments, and advance their careers. Whether you're a seasoned manager or you aspire to lead a remote team, this discussion promises to equip you with the tools and knowledge you’ll need to thrive in the evolving landscape of distributed work.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Best practices to help you foster a cohesive and high-performing remote team
- Remote leadership ways of working that get you noticed
- How to highlight your and your team’s accomplishments
This live course is for you because…
- You lead remote teams and want to learn how to highlight their success and your own.
- You’re moving into a remote leadership role and want to set yourself up for success.
- You’re a remote worker and want to demonstrate your leadership capacity.
- You want to hear from Michael Lopp and Anjuan Simmons about software development and remote leadership.
Recommended follow-up:
- Read Effective Remote Work: For Yourself, Your Team, and Your Company (book)
- Read Remote Works: Managing for Freedom, Flexibility, and Focus (book)
- Explore Engineering Leadership Essentials (expert playlist)
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