How To Manage And Motivate Remotely: 7 Tips For Success
Published on: 02/04/2020
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Karl O'Connor Senior Executive & Leadership Coach
Karl O'Connor Senior Executive & Leadership Coach
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Karl is a Senior Executive & Leadership Coach/Trainer with OCN Coaching Champions Ltd and CoachDevelopTransform- Coaching leaders, Developing teams and Transforming Organisations in both the public and private sector. He is also the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (Irl) lead Trainer in human resources, coaching and employee engagement and is part of the Institute of Public Administration Associate faculty for learning and development. Karl is an award- winning coach from Chambers Ireland, CIPD and the Irish Institute of Training & Development. He is an author with a successful track record of enabling individuals and teams to be inspired to deliver extraordinary results for themselves, customers and organisations. He has designed and rolled out numerous successful Leadership and Leading Change interventions within organisations. This includes a 10-module programme for an in-house client of the CIPD who are upskilling managers to lead their teams more effectively while helping lead them through change and to re-build engagement.

A period of crisis leadership under former Taoiseach Charles J. Haughey was described as GUBU: grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented. This acronym helps to describe the current COVID-19 challenges.

For managers suddenly thrust into the role of managing remote teams, at a time when everyone in the community is feeling stressed, we need to adapt quickly and learn how to manage and motivate remote teams.

According to Prof. Finian Buckley of DCU, wider psychological challenges arise from the limiting of natural social contact, such as the cessation of a natural daily (office work) routine and experiencing a lack of control over one's life which can be debilitating and exhausting.

Coaching in the Moment: How to manage and motivate remote teams

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