Adrienne Knox, Author at The Kevin Eikenberry Group

Post-Vacation Email Re-entry

By Wayne Turmel Ahhh, back from vacation. I communed with the Cactus in Joshua Tree National Park, saw actual sunshine for the first time in months, and found that if I never have to listen to a top-40 radio station again, I’ll be just fine. I’m relaxed, happy and ready to get back to…. OH

3 Ways to Get Better at Vacations

By Wayne Turmel Here’s a question for all of us who lead remote project teams: if we’re not with most of our team most of the time, why is going on vacation (or at least taking time off) so traumatic? According to reports, over half of Americans don’t take all their vacation time, and 2/3

Do You Need a Project Team EKG?

By Wayne Turmel The Project Manager is the heart of a remote project team. Wait, don’t roll your eyes. I’m not talking the soft-and-mushy-Oprah version of “heart”. I mean the literal, physical, blood-pumping heart. Hear me out. What is your heart? It’s a four-chambered muscle that takes spent blood in, adds oxygen and pumps it

Managing Email Interruptions

By Wayne Turmel When you have a fully remote team or a hybrid of teleworkers and office folks, one of the main lifelines you have is email. Sometimes, let’s be honest, it feels like that line is wrapped around your throat and choking the life from you. Like so much in life, what’s good for

The Simplest Test for Your Email

By Wayne Turmel Email is considered the biggest communication problem for remote teams. Either the sheer volume of email steals our time and saps our productivity, or the way emails are written don’t get the point across, and cause more rework and email, leading back to problem one. I’m exhausted just writing that, but it’s

Why Does Distance Make Coaching Harder?

By Wayne Turmel Managing (and especially coaching) a remote team can seem very different than leading a group of people who work together, and who you see all the time. It’s not—but it sure as heck can feel that way. Today’s post is just a little reminder about what’s different, and what hasn’t changed for

A Remote Project Team is More Than Tasks

When I ask project managers what their biggest challenges are, at the top of the list is “making sure people are doing their tasks.” Actually, what they say is, “Are they really working?”; but I know what they mean and I assume they don’t mean to sound paranoid. Actually, as a PM of a remote

The Real Problem with Email – A Gift for You!

2016 will go down in history as a turbulent, stressful and crazy year for nearly all of us. Whether it was the turbulent presidential election, or the death of a favorite celebrity (really, I can mourn both Merle Haggard and Prince. Don’t judge…), things were crazy. Yet, one thing stayed the same in the workplace,

How Many Collaboration Tools Do You Need?

By Wayne Turmel A lot of managers complain that they don’t have the tools their remote teams need in order to collaborate effectively. Others say there are too darned many gizmos for everyone to make sense of and use well. Exactly how many collaboration tools are out there, and how many does a team really

The Worst Kind of Corporate Theft

With a title like this one, you might think this is a video about people raiding the supply closets to “borrow” paper and pens for home. It’s not! But it’s likely something that is still happening in your office and your team. Check out the video below to find out how you can avoid this

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