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Encouraging Conflict in High-Performing Remote & Hybrid Teams
Get access to a FREE one-hour webinar recording to hear from Dr. Thomas O'Neill, organizational psychologist, remote work researcher, and world-renowned high-performing teams expert, and Teamit President & Co-Founder, Alistair Shepherd-Cross, who brings insights into how this important topic impacts recruiting and retaining top talent in the tech sector.
Dr. Thomas O'Neill
Associate Professor and
Director, Individual & Team Performance Lab
Department of Psychology University of Calgary
Alistair Shepherd-Cross
President & Co-Founder
Teamit Inc.
About this webinar:
Conflict at work can often trigger unproductive “fear-based” responses. However, without conflict, we miss out on different perspectives which can result in healthy collaboration, innovation and prevention of costly mistakes.
How can you foster healthy, fact-driven conflict when working in remote and hybrid teams? How does the tech talent shortage and speed of growth that tech teams experience impact team performance?
Hear from Dr. Thomas O'Neill, organizational psychologist, remote work researcher, and world-renowned high-performing teams expert, and Teamit President & Co-Founder, Alistair Shepherd-Cross.
Here's what you'll learn:
- The difference between healthy and unhealthy conflict.
- The connection between conflict and performance.
- What leaders can do to promote “healthy” conflict and minimize “unhealthy” conflict.
- What leaders should do differently when encouraging conflict in remote, hybrid or distributed teams vs. co-located teams.
- How quality of talent contributes to overall team functioning.
- The connection between cultivating healthy fact-driven conflict and employee retention.
About the speakers:
Dr. Thomas O'Neill
Associate Professor and
Director, Individual & Team Performance Lab
Department of Psychology, University of Calgary
Thomas is a global research leader in the areas of high-performance teamwork, virtual team and leader effectiveness, flexible remote work, human-autonomy teaming, conflict and conflict management, personality, and assessment.
His research funding exceeds $6M and he currently leads a lab team of 15. Thomas has also published over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles in outlets such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and more. He has also worked extensively to translate the science of flexible remote work into practice through consultations, workshops, public lectures, and training.
Alistair Shepherd-Cross
President & Co-Founder
Teamit Inc.
For the last 20 years, Alistair has had a front-row seat to the tech industry's ups and downs as a trusted advisor to some of the tech industry's most successful businesses in both Canada and the U.S. As a tech recruiting specialist, he has connected Canada's top tech talent with companies as they scale, and has a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities for leaders pursuing high-performing teams in challenging times.