How to Hire and Manage Remote Teams
How to Hire and Manage Remote Teams provides practical knowledge and identifies the unique challenges in being the remote manager. Drawing on extensive experience and using real-life examples throughout, this book demonstrates and discusses techniques to consider when hiring, firing, building teams, and building culture, to help you to create and maintain a high agency, high functioning, and highly rewarding team.
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Pablo Fernandez started his journey in technology when he was 7 years old when gifted his first computer, only to find himself more intrigued by writing code than playing games. His career has spanned a number of roles, from individual contributor to CEO, which has provided him with unique insight into the working life and working requirements at multiple levels and across both technical and non-technical departments.
He has worked in small startups as co-founded – achieving successful exit with the app Watu – and in large giants including Google and banking. One consistent feature since the early 2000s has been remote working, for which he has a great interest and passion in doing it well. With his book, he hopes to encourage other managers, seniors, executives, and leaders, to embrace new and better standards in remote work spaces.
Table of Contents
This is a current draft of the table of contents of the book. This isn’t final yet, but just to give you an idea of what will be included.
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Building the Team
- Hiring
- Text Interviews
- Time Zones (or the Roundness of Earth)
- Legalities
- Onboarding New Employees
- Firing
- Day to Day
- Navigating the Company
- Synchronous vs Asynchronous Communication
- Documentation
- Performance Improvement Plans
- Meetings
- Effective Meetings
- One on One Meetings
- Standups
- Models to Avoid
- The Remote Worker or Team in the Non-distributed Company
- The Hybrid Model
- Tools
- Headset
- Whiteboards
- Other Tools
- Being Great
- Beyond Just Work
- Get-togethers
- A Course on Your Company
- Appendices
- The Covid-19 Pandemic
- Credits