Telework and collaborative practices can empower a new era of flexible and resilient public services.
Learn more and get telework training for government agencies at: http://distributedgov.com/
forced massive, sudden shift to telework • Government is not as resilient as it needs to be • Government workforce is too geographically centralized • Office buildings are expensive single-points-of-failure • Culture is rigid / monolithic - not flexible to change • Bureaucracy is command-and-control
/ Telework by default • Resilient policies and practices • “Office optional” • Flexible and modern practices and tools • Empowering work for individuals and teams • Culture of trust
Is all humans on the team working together, even though they are physically apart from each other. Everyone on the physically distributed team is “remote” from someone, so everyone has shared responsibility to communicate and coordinate their work with coworkers – regardless of where any individual human is working. • Is not a collection of individuals who each do solo, heads-down work from different locations for short periods of time before returning to the office.
for small or large groups at your agency on remote / telework best practices - from setup and security to communications and culture. Courses: • Always Getting Better: Building Organizations of Purpose That Get Things Done • Effective Telework in Distributed Government Teams • Humanware: Helping Teams Work Better Together • Managing Teleworkers in Government • Recruiting and Hiring While Teleworking • Running Large Online Government Meetings
and implementation help for building effective distributed government teams. Sessions: • Recruiting and Hiring For Distributed Government Teams • Working and Leading in Distributed Teams
for orientation on telework policies and best practices, along with recommendations for your agency. Offerings: • Designing and Running Telework Training Courses • Designing and Writing Effective Telework Policies • Strategic Briefing: Government Teleworking at Scale
• 15+ years of distributed work environment • 10 years of working with government • Team of 100+ experts in distributed work: ◦ Design ◦ Development ◦ Product/project management ◦ Recruiting/hiring