Remote Worker Realities - August 11, 2026

Remote Worker Realities:
Leading from a Distance

What is the #1 job characteristic sought by candidates for remote positions?

If you said "flexible schedules", you may have known this is the desire of 57% of remote workers. Do you know the top four things this workforce seeks - and are they built into your workplace culture?

Join author Jill Christensen and your Alaska-based colleagues for an insightful seminar designed to enhance the effectiveness of managers and HR professionals in navigating the challenges of remote work.

In Alaska, where remote work has been the norm since the days of pipeline construction, understanding how to effectively engage virtual employees is crucial for organizational success. Drawing inspiration from Jill Christensen's acclaimed book, "Remote 101: The Secret to Engaging Virtual Workers," this seminar will equip you with practical strategies to foster high engagement and productivity among your remote teams - whether working away from home or at home.

Engagement Strategies: Discover actionable techniques to enhance employee engagement, ensuring your remote workers feel valued and connected.

Productivity Insights: Understand how engaged employees can improve productivity and reduce the need for constant oversight.

Leadership Skills: Develop leadership skills tailored to managing remote individuals and teams effectively.

Key Areas to Address: Jill will explore four critical areas that must be addressed to create an inspiring remote working environment, including the one thing you must now to keep employees inspired and engaged. You will explore a proven strategy to retain employees - and you can apply this immediately! You will also discover the single question to instantly reveal your employee engagement score.

This program supports HR professionals in applying strategic planning, leadership and navigation, communication, relationship management, and employee engagement strategies aligned with HRCI’s HR Body of Knowledge and SHRM's BASK. Ideal for HR professionals, managers, senior leaders, and organizational leaders seeking practical tools for leading through disruption, stress, and transition.

Objectives:

1. Analyze the top factors sought by remote employees and assess whether those factors are reflected in their organization's workplace culture, identifying at least two opportunities for improvement.

2. Apply at least three employee engagement strategies from the seminar to develop a plan for increasing connection, inclusion, and engagement among remote or distributed workers.

3. Name three or more effective leadership practices for managing remote employees by selecting and implementing communication, accountability, and support techniques appropriate for virtual teams.

4. Develop recommendations that address the four critical areas of an inspiring remote work environment, with the goal of improving employee engagement, productivity, and organizational effectiveness.

Outcome:

Explosive productivity. Higher retention. Raving customers. Profitable growth. Not incremental improvement… Transformation.

Date: August 11, 2026

Location: VIRTUAL (The Zoom link will be distributed to registrants)

Zoom room opens and networking begins at 11:30 AM – Share announcements, opportunities, and insights with fellow professionals. Use the chat and microphone. Camera on, please!

Program begins at 11:45 AM – ASHRM updates and information.

Speaker presentation at 11:50 AM – Guest speaker will deliver a one-hour session, followed by closing remarks from the ASHRM President.

About the Speaker

Jill Christensen

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillchristensen/
https://jillchristensenintl.com/

A former Fortune 500 business executive with a Six Sigma Green Belt, Jill understands what employees want in the workplace, and what managers need to do differently to ignite exceptional effort from people. 

In Corporate America, Jill had her finger on the pulse of employee’s needs thanks to her role leading Global Internal Communications. Jill launched her business in 2009. Since then, she has married her corporate knowledge with enormous amounts of data about what employees say they need in a workplace to be inspired to work hard. The result are the proven strategies that Jill shares in her keynotes today. 

Jill is highly in-demand as a speakers in the world thanks to her ability to take audiences on a journey and inspire them to act. Her status as a Top 200 Global Thought Leader to Watch has enabled Jill to present her proven strategies to 500,000 people globally in the past eight years. 

Her books sold out at the 2026 Alaska SHRM State Conference , and her popular blog was named a Top 100 Corporate Blog alongside Apple and Microsoft. Her second book about engaging remote workers debuted during the COVID pandemic and is the backdrop to today's presentation.

“Work as we know it has changed forever. Are you making the most of remote work culture?”

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Continuing education credit approved: 1 PDC