How to Thrive in the Virtual Workplace: Simple and Effective Tips for Successful, Productive, and Empowered Remote Work

by Robert Glazer

Overview

An instant #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller and USA Today bestseller!

The remote work revolution has been rapidly accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizations as big as Twitter have learned their employees didn't need an office to get great results, and employees are using the flexibility of remote work to live where they want, ditch their commutes and live a work-life integration that works for them.

Remote work is here to stay, and the companies that do it well will have a clear competitive advantage in the future. As founder and CEO of Acceleration Partners, a 100 percent remote organization with 170 employees who work from home, Robert Glazer has discovered that with the right principles, tactics and tools for managing remote employees, many businesses can excel in a virtual world. In this highly actionable book, Glazer shares how he and his team built a remote organization that has been recognized with dozens of awards for its industry performance and company culture.

"A timely, practical, and highly informative guide to effective techniques for remote work; of benefit to practitioners or students of business. Highly recommended."—Library Journal, STARRED review

How to Thrive in the Virtual Workplace shares insights from the remote employee, manager and leader perspectives, offering a blueprint any person can use to make remote work successful, productive and fulfilling. Learn how to leverage the flexibility of remote work, be more productive while working at home, avoid burnout, lead a team of virtual employees and build an organization that sets the gold standard for virtual work.

The remote work revolution is here—the leaders who will build the future are the ones who can lead top performing virtual teams. Learn how to build a world-class organization—office no longer required.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781728246840
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	06/01/2021
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	1,087,379
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Robert Glazer is the founder and Chairman of The Board of global partner marketing agency, Acceleration Partners. A serial entrepreneur, Bob has a passion for helping individuals and organizations build their capacity to elevate.

Under his leadership, Acceleration Partners received numerous industry and company culture awards, including Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Awards (2 years in a row), Ad Age’s Best Place to Work, Entrepreneur’s Top Company Culture (2 years in a row), Great Place to Work & Fortune’s Best Small & Medium Workplaces (3 years in a row) and Boston Globe’s Top Workplaces (2 years in a row). Bob was also named to Glassdoor’s list of Top CEO of Small and Medium Companies in the US, ranking #2.

Bob’s writing reaches millions of people around the globe each year who resonate with his topics, which range from performance marketing and entrepreneurship to company culture, capacity building, and leadership. Worldwide, he is also a sought-after keynote speaker by companies and organizations on subjects related to business growth, culture, building capacity and performance.

Bob is the #1 Wall Street Journal, USA Today and international bestselling author of six books including Elevate, How To Thrive In The Virtual Workplace, Friday Forward, and Moving to Outcomes. He is also the host of the Elevate Podcast, a top 1% podcast globally with over 1,000,0000 downloads.

Bob is a sought-after keynote speaker by companies and organizations around the world. He shares ideas and insights around these topics via Friday Forward, a weekly inspirational newsletter that reaches over 200,000 individuals and business leaders across 60+ countries.

Outside of work, Bob can likely be found skiing, cycling, reading, traveling, spending quality time with his family or overseeing some sort of home renovation project.

Learn more about Bob at https://www.robertglazer.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Part 1 Thriving as a Remote Employee 1

1 Remote Working: What's It All About? 3

2 Getting the Most out of Remote Work 20

Part 2 Thriving as a Remote Organization 73

3 It Starts with Culture 75

4 What Starts Well 105

5 Setting Your Team Up for Success 127

6 Bringing People Together 186

Conclusion: What Comes Next? 211

Notes 238

Acknowledgments 244

About the Authors 246

Resources 249

Editorial Reviews

"If you’re still struggling with remote work, Bob Glazer knows something about how to make it work. His company has been doing it for over a decade, and you’ll be able to implement some of his advice right away." — Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife

"Glazer provides a positive outlook for a onetime trend fast becoming commonplace reality in this handy guide." — Booklist

"A timely, practical, and highly informative guide to effective techniques for remote work; of benefit to practitioners or students of business. Highly recommended." — Library Journal, STARRED review

"Robert Glazer has assembled an essential playbook both remote leaders and employees need to build top-tier organizations. This comprehensive book will help you set the right cultural foundation, hire effectively, and ensure top performance in remote work." — Dr. Geoff Smart, Chairman of ghSMART and New York Times bestselling author of Who and Power Score

"Robert Glazer, leader of a world-class, values-driven virtual organization, shares an important playbook to help employees, managers and leaders build, and excel in, the new world of remote work." — Garry Ridge, CEO of the WD-40 Company

"Robert Glazer has led a top performing remote organization for over a decade. With this book, he shares the essential keys to building a world-class remote company." — Keith Ferrazzi, New York Times bestselling author of Never Eat Alone

"Invaluable guidance on how organizations can embrace the flexibility of remote work while sustaining wellbeing and connection, from a trailblazing leader who has been doing this brilliantly for years. Immensely timely, practical and encouraging." — Caroline Webb, Author of How To Have A Good Day and Senior Adviser to McKinsey & Company

"This is a must read guide to excelling in the newly remote working world. Robert Glazer shares strategies to help leaders and workers unlock the transformative possibilities of remote work." — Aicha Evans, CEO of Zoox

From the Publisher

★ 06/01/2021

Glazer (founder and CEO of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency), whose company went remote some years before the COVID-19 pandemic, here promotes the advantages of working from home: ending long commutes, avoiding distractions in open-plan offices, and gaining more time for family and travel, among others. His book is organized into two parts: "The Employee Perspective," and "The Organizational Playbook." "The Employee Perspective" offers practical advice, with case studies, for keeping a schedule, being a collaborative employee, establishing best practices, setting professional and personal boundaries, maintaining health and well-being, creating the right personal workspace, managing the email inbox, and working with technology. "The Organizational Playbook" discusses management perspectives and creating the proper culture through vision, values, goals, consistency, and clarity. Glazer particularly emphasizes recruiting with remote work in mind to help ensure success, and also covers establishing employee training and team building within an organization, having effective meetings, time zone etiquette, technology, and performance management. VERDICT A timely, practical, and highly informative guide to effective techniques for remote work; of benefit to practitioners or students of business. Highly recommended.—Lucy Heckman, St. John's Univ. Lib., Queens Village, NY

Library Journal