Artemis Management Consultants and Virtual Connection
www.ArtemisManagement.com and www.VirtualConnection.biz
Employees are no longer co-located.
Managers are challenged to manage dispersed and global teams as well as telecommuters.
There are important strategies and techniques managers and teams can learn to increase their effectiveness.
During this session participants will learn:
- How to run effective meetings
- How to build trusting relationships and collaborative teams even if the team members never meet face-to-face.
- The important competencies that virtual managers need to acquire, and
- The important competencies that virtual team members need to acquire.
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Background: Barbara Miller has thirty years of experience consulting to private, public and non-profit organizations. She has worked successfully in such varied cultures as The U.S. House of Representatives, financial institutions, health care systems, high-technology, rapidly growing entrepreneurial companies, public sector agencies, educational institutions and grassroots non-profit agencies. She has extensive experience working at all levels in an organization: CEO, mid-level manager and individual contributors. Her recent clients include: Stanford University, HSBC, Accenture, Hewlett Packard, U.C. Berkeley, THe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Juniper Networks, Agilent Technologies, Sun Microsystems, The Ford Foundation, Lucas Digital, Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Applied Materials the Packard Foundation.
Ms. Miller specializes in leadership development, executive and managerial coaching and organization change strategies. Barbara’s consulting work has included helping organizations to plan strategically, manage change, build teamwork, re-organize workflow and reporting relationships to improve productivity, downsize and merge. Barbara has coached leaders at all levels in Fortune 500 companies.
Barbara is able to bring a unique perspective to her clients because she has been a manager in four organizations. She knows first hand about the day to day realities and pressures experienced by managers. Thus, her recommendations are both theoretically sound and pragmatic.
She has also designed and conducted seminars on leadership, managing change, communication skills, behavioral interviewing, performance management, women in management, career development, conflict resolution, empowerment, self-managing teams and managing individual differences and work-life harmony.
Artemis Management Consultants was selected to manage a three year, cutting edge action research project sponsored by the Ford Foundation on Work-Life Integration. The action research was conducted at Tandem Computers, Xerox and Corning. As a result of this project, Barbara authored, ReInventing Work: Relinking Life and Livelihood to Benefit Business and Staff. The workbook has been translated into Japanese and Hebrew.
Ms Miller is also the co-founder of Virtual Connection. She developed a six module, web based tool that teaches managers and teams how to work virtually. She customizes workshops to train managers and staff how to work remotely and globally.
Barbara has a Master’s Degree in Management Science and Women Studies from George Washington University. She has taught organizational theory and change management at the University of San Francisco’s Master’s Degree program in Organization Development and Human Resources.
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What People Are Saying About Barbara Miller:
“Barbara’s presentation at the NCHRA conference was extremely professional, articulate and actionable. She provided concrete examples.”
Manager, Insurance Company
“I was really impressed by the quality of the speaker and her messages to the very heterogeneous attendance. This resulted in being a double learning. Thanks Barbara.”
Manager, Siemens
“After 23 years at Hewlett-Packard, ReInventing Work is the first change process I have been able to get my arms around. The concepts are easy to understand, easy to discuss with my teams and have helped us achieve tremendous results for our employees, our customers and our shareholders.”
Dave Smith, Area Manager, Field Operations, Hewlett-Packard
