If you are working remotely, whether because of COVID-19 or some other reason, your work is different. When you worked in a physical office, away from the home, you had routines for various parts of your day – a routine for when you arrived at work. A routine for when you left work. And routines […]
Five Things Leaders of Newly Remote Teams Must Do
Schools have closed, forcing your people to work remotely. Or people have self-quarantined after travel. Or your state has issued guidance to have people work from home if possible. Or perhaps out of an abundance of caution, your organization has decided to allow people to work from home. Whatever the reasons, if this is you, […]
Three Reasons Technology Won’t Save Your Remote Team
If you are on (or lead) a remote team, you have remote technology. You likely have licenses and logins for a variety of tools. You might have even added a new tool, thinking it would be the solution to the woes that face your remote team. And what did you find? Is your team woe-free […]
Three Kinds of Remote Teams
As the co-founder of The Remote Leadership Institute, having worked with a wide variety of leaders and organizations with remote teams, and as a leader of a remote team myself, I believe thinking about the type of team you lead is important. My goal here is two-fold – to provide some nomenclature, so that those […]
Five Keys to Overcoming Virtual Team Conflicts
When we think about remote or virtual teams, we may think about flexibility, freedom and perhaps even high productivity. And when people are working out and on their own, we typically think that interpersonal issues might not matter as much or happen as often. Unfortunately, this isn’t always true. And, when we do experience conflicts […]