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Berkeley Global
Learn what you need to know about building and managing distributed teams. Working from home is just the start. From the vision and opportunities to recruit the best and most diverse team to tactical tips to build and maintain connectedness among employees, make sure you understand how to do it right and how to avoid common pitfalls. During this asynchronous lecture, you also have the opportunity to examine the ripple effects and benefits of strengthening local communities, reducing cost of living and commutes for employees, reducing the costs and physical footprint for companies, and improving the environment for all.
Expert speaker: John O’Duinn, author of Distributed Teams: The Art and Practice of Working Together While Physically Apart, senior strategist at CivicActions
Guest speakers:
- Jamie Orr, Ph.D., co-founder of CoworkTahoe
- Michelle Skoor, director at OnwardUS, Bitwise Industries
- Wesley Alexander, CEO at CoBizRichmond
Prerequisites:
No specific prerequisites or entrance requirements needed to enroll.
Before starting the course, we strongly recommend that you have viewed the recording of the free expert panel public event:
The New HR: New Leadership Skills, Distributed Teams and AI.
Course Outline
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Course Objectives
You gain an understanding and learn the leadership skills to address the following issues:
- Introduction to the benefits of distributed teams and how to take advantage of the covid crisis to change policies and practices
- Practical practices to minimize downsides and maximize upsides of working with distributed teams
- Understanding of how recruiting and retention practices need to change to support distributed teams
- Key strategies for managers to effectively manage distributed teams, build cohesion and belonging and promote effective collaboration
- Essential best practices, tools and tips to making remote teams sustainable and overarching opportunities for distributed teams to improve ROI for companies and the planet
Intended Audience
- Executive leadership in private and public sector
- Human resources and talent management professionals (including recruiters)
- Aspiring tech leaders in Silicon Valley and beyond
- Other educational institutions with an interest in the cutting-edge research, education and methods developed and implemented at UC Berkeley and at other companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley
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Summer enrollment opens on March 20!