Productivity, Remote Kevin Siskar Productivity, Remote Kevin Siskar

Taking Your Team Remote: People, Process, and Tools

Remote work is quickly becoming normalized and ubiquitous all around the world. Companies are learning that they can now access talent from anywhere globally; while team members are currently building new habits in their day to day workflows. As a leader, it is imperative to make sure your organization is optimized for the next decade of work where results matter much more than a physical location. This course will teach you the foundational steps best to operate any team in a remote work environment. We will be exploring the three main focus areas for building strong remote work environments.

A few years ago I taught a free online class on Skillshare called Productivity Today. Since then over 45,000 people have taken the class and watched over 1 million minutes! So when Skillshare asked me to work together again earlier this year I was excited to partner on a new class.

This past year, like many companies, we transitioned Finta from an office setting in New York’s financial district to a remote organization. It was a transition that was not easy and required meaningful work, but in the long run, we are a better and stronger organization for it. I am excited to share the lessons we have learned as a company in this new class:

Taking Your Team Remote: People, Process, and Tools

Remote work is quickly becoming normalized and ubiquitous all around the world. Companies are learning that they can now access talent from anywhere globally; while team members are currently building new habits in their day to day workflows. As a leader, it is imperative to make sure your organization is optimized for the next decade of work where results matter much more than a physical location. 

This course will teach you the foundational steps best to operate any team in a remote work environment. We will be exploring the three main focus areas for building strong remote work environments:

  • People

  • Process

  • Tools

Across each of these areas, we will be including examples and recommendations you can implement immediately with your own team and business.  So you can start operating a strong remote team today! 

The best part is that any tips and tricks to running a strong remote company are actually complementary to running your company in an office setting. So regardless of if you are running a fully remote, hybrid remote model, or completely in-office work environment, this class will help you be a stronger operator, manager, and leader. Let’s get started!


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Bringing Back Jeff Wald To Discuss The End Of Jobs

Our next guest is so amazing, we had to interview him a second time! He was on nearly 5 years ago on Episode 8! Jeff Wald is an entrepreneur who has started three technology companies, with his latest company, WorkMarket, being sold to ADP.

Jeff Wald | Author | The End of Jobs

Jeff Wald | Author | The End of Jobs

Our next guest is so amazing, we had to interview him a second time! Jeff Wald was on Ambition Today nearly 5 years ago on Episode 8 and we are bringing him back for episode 62!

Jeff Wald is an entrepreneur who has started three technology companies, and since we last spoke with Jeff, he sold his latest company, WorkMarket, to ADP. Jeff is also a Board Member on the following boards: Steel Connect, Costar Technologies, TransfrVR, Peerless Systems, and Register.com. During this episode we catch up with Jeff and talk about his new book, “The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Agile Corporations”. Tune in to hear all about his book as well as statistics regarding the workforce in 2020:

Topics Discussed:

  • His experience selling the company.

  • The impact of remote working.

  • How to create “social squads” in your company.

  • The importance of defining the goal of any meeting.

  • The steps of technological change, mechanization, electrification, computerization and what comes next with robots and AI.

Quote of the Episode:

“Every time {we revolutionize} we ended up with more jobs, at a higher standard of living, with working fewer hours, that is definitively clear through history.” - Jeff Wald

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