Smart Work – Tips for hybrid working as ‘new normal’ September approaches

Smart Work The Ultimate Handbook for Remote and Hybrid Teams reveals the global best practices for the world of work and leadership after the pandemic. Remote and hybrid working is not a temporary shift: it is a paradigm shift.

How can leaders, managers and team members raise their game to meet the challenges of 21st-century leadership and our new age of remote working? Some people will thrive; others will struggle in this new world. Smart Work is your guide to survival and success.

Managing Remotely

In a world still adjusting to the impact of the pandemic, remote and hybrid working is new territory for most people. But many managers can be poorly equipped to deal with it. Founder of eight NGOs, including social enterprise Teach First, Jo Owen is perfectly placed to offer guidance for managers struggling to cope with ‘the new normal’.

Office-based, face-to-face leadership, while certainly effective, is often more informal and ad hoc. A number of basic management tasks can be much harder to complete remotely, including managing workloads and performance, training, motivation and resolving miscommunications.

Jo Owen explains how every member of a remote team can raise their game to meet the challenges of remote working, either as a team member working primarily online, a departmental manager who has to adjust to managing people via video screens, or an employer who is looking to create the most effective and productive working environment for their staff.

In this book, you will discover how to…

maintain work-life balance when working from home and deal with burnout

hold effective meetings, manage team productivity and workloads

establish productive rhythms and routines for yourself and your team

balance working in the office with WFH communicate and coordinate effectively

sustain intrinsic motivation and mental health when working from home

About the Author

Award-winning author Jo Owen practices what he preaches. He is a founder of
eight NGOs with a combined turnover above £100million pa, including Teach
First which became the largest graduate recruiter in the UK.

He has worked with over 100 of the best, and a couple of the worst, organisations on our planet. He is the only person to win the Chartered Management Institute Gold
Award four times for his books.

His titles include How to Lead, Global Teams, Resilience, Mindset of Success and Tribal Business School. His career highlights include becoming the best nappy salesman in Birmingham, putting the blue speckle in Daz, and getting sued for $12 billion.

You can download a sampler here

Smart Work is out 16th September 2021

Paperback: 9781472992529: £14.99

Also available in Audiobook and Ebook