In this workshop, I share 15 years of practical experience from distributed organisations and teams.

How do you do that? What had you better not do? Why is distributed work so different from work in in conventional offices — and if done right, usually much better?

Workshop content

Basics of distributed and asynchronous professional collaboration

• Distributed work — what does that mean?
• Writing — why do we value the written word?
• Body language, tone of voice and non-verbal communication — how do you deal with this in distributed teams?

Methods

• Run a team with just one meeting a week? Yes of course, that’s possible!
• Methods: why Scrum is rubbish, and how to use Kanban effectively
• The problem with daily stand-ups and why it’s best to nix them
• Never annoy people with “what’s your status” again: how to effectively support a distributed team as its manager, rather than standing in their way

Teams that solve problems

• How to enable people to work in a focused and creative way
• Finding great people and building stable teams with them: a hiring and recruitment guide for managers and coworkers

Tools

• The tools you really need
• Digital sovereignty and open source tools for distributed teams: you can do it without hyperscalers!

Length

2 days of 8 hours each.

Audience

Maximum attendance for this workshop is 15. 10 people is ideal.

Participation is recommended for people with and without management responsibility (a good mix is particularly effective here).

Price

€ 3,000.00 excl. VAT, travel and accommodation.