We spend a lot of time worrying about whether people who have always worked in an office can suddenly be successful when working remotely. Lately, I’ve been trying to flip that question around. Can people who’ve worked from home easily and happily go back to working in a traditional office environment? This is not a

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Some people are “list people,” while others aren’t. Even if it isn’t your general inclination, you have made a to-do list at some point – likely on a day when you had lots to do. There is a question that might change everything for you. If you can’t live without your to-do list this will

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If you read this blog regularly, you know that we recently released our new book on remote leadership titled The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership. (Do you have your copy yet?) But we didn’t stop thinking about leading remotely and the remote workforce the day we turned in the manuscript. In fact, today

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While we’re here… We really ought to… Before you know it… We’ve all been on projects or task forces or teams where scope creep completely derails our initial plans, our progress and our success. And as leaders, scope creep WILL happen unless we are truly intentional in addressing it beforehand. Check out the episode below

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Projects are completed every day. While some aren’t as successful as others, most organizations treat all those endings in the same way – with deafening silence or at most, a sigh of relief. Effective leaders and project managers think about how they will reward, recognize, and yes, celebrate project success. Experience and observation shows that

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Trust, by many measures, is near an all-time low. According to Pew Research, public trust in government is historically low. More important to us, Forbes.com states that 63% of employees don’t trust their leader. Ouch. I’d call that a crisis of workplace trust. And yet we know that high levels of trust directly impacts greater productivity,

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In today’s episode, we delve further into one of the lessons that I talked about in last week’s video, What I’ve Learned About Leading Remotely: Setting Clear and Mutually Understood Expectations Tweet it out: “The best coaches ensure expectations are clear and mutually understood.” @KevinEikenberry From This Episode: Get a copy of The Long-Distance Leader

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All effective leaders must learn to delegate effectively, and increasingly, they are leading hybrid teams – where some of the team members are co-located and others work away from the rest of the group. This fact changes delegation dynamics in ways you may not have considered. If you want to delegate more effectively to a

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Today is a special day at The Kevin Eikenberry Group: my newest book, The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership, is being released! And to celebrate this occasion, in today’s video, I am sharing some of my best ideas from the book for leaders (or future leaders) of remote teams. Tweet it out: Effectively

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