Managing the Mobile Workforce: Leading, Building, and Sustaining Virtual Teams

Real world-proven tools, tips and strategies for hiring, training, supporting, and motivating the modern mobile workforceIDC estimates that mobile workers worldwide will surpass1 billionby 2011. This isn't just a trend, but the direction that business is heading.Managing the Mobile Workforcegives managers and executives at all levels of familiarity with decentralized organizational structures key essentials for coping with this new reality, empowering you to create, sustain, support, and reward a highly passionate and productive mobile work force.A mobile workforce is one in which you cannot just drop by to discuss matters at any given time. So David Clemons, a leading training solutions entrepreneur and innovator, delivers rock-solid guidance on: Recruiting and hiring the right people for mobile work Creating mobile work environment with powerful performance objectives, accountability, and feedback Setting up the right managerial and technological support Strategies for building continual improvement through training and collaboration And the Seven Essentials for a highly productive workforceStories from top execs at Samsung, Verizon, JetBlue, Siemens, and other giants show you how the mobile workforce is changing the very landscape of business-and what you can do starting today to recreate their successes in your own organization.