Virtual Team Video Cliff Notes – The Agent of CONNECTION

In this fast-paced global economy, the quality of your leadership and how adept you are at continually increasing your intellectual bandwidth will keep your organization’s bottom line ahead of the competition. Being a global leader is no longer an option – it is a requirement for maintaining a strong and secure place in the global marketplace.

 

These challenges are not daunting to the effective virtual manager – they provoke innovation. The conditions that spark innovation arise from connecting the right people with the right ideas in the right environment at the right time. In a business environment of great uncertainty and rapid change, organizational capability fuels an organization’s strategic options. By organizational capacity we mean the quality of its people resources, the flexibility of its infrastructure, and the openness of its culture, all of which form the basis for success in the Age of Connection.

 

For over a decade, Yael Zofi has believed the role of the global leader is less about controlling and managing and more about creating and enabling connection. Instead of the ‘Agent of Change,’ responsible for managing change and transition, the new role of the 21st Century leader is about connection; hence the ‘Agent of Connection’ – connecting the team members to you and to each other.

 

Here’s Yael talking about her view regarding this key role of virtual managers: