by Kevin Eikenberry I just got back from vacation recently, and as a leader of a hybrid team myself, I made sure to follow one of the most important pieces of advice I give to leaders: When you are on vacation, be on vacation. Now, while I was on vacation, I wasn’t writing in this
by Jason Miller Something happened in 2020 besides a global pandemic that sent the world reeling. The very idea of work and what it looked like changed, and even as we emerge from the COVID-19 era, things are not returning to pre-pandemic norms. Most leaders face a “new normal” when it comes to the management
In the last few weeks, I’ve been working with a lot of clients who are unhappy with the communication technology at their disposal. In some cases, the complaints have reached the point where they aren’t just a cause for griping, but people have just thrown their hands up and let it interfere with team productivity.
A few years ago, the concept of leading remotely was foreign and scary to a lot of supervisors and managers. New leaders, in particular struggled with the notion of trying to do all the “leadership stuff,” when people weren’t in the same location. But now there is an entirely new generation of leaders who got
Here’s something you probably never thought of. The last year and a half or so of the COVID pandemic has been a lot like a trip to the International Space Station. We were launched from our snug, regular office routines and sent to live and work in isolation, with most of our communication coming virtually.
Accountability. We throw the word around quite a bit in leadership circles. We use phrases like ‘holding people accountable.” To many managers, it’s the stick we use when the carrot doesn’t work. In the words of that great philosopher Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride, “You keep using that word. I do not think it
In all the talk about hybrid work and RTO (Returning To Office for those of us who are acronym-intolerant), it’s easy to stress out. Let me remind you of a very simple rule to help guide your thinking. In The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership, we have 18 (sort of 19) rules for
What do you know about how the next couple of months look for your team? There’s a strange tension in the air right now as people see the end of the COVID tunnel. Many organizations are making concrete plans for returning to the office, a continuation of remote work, or some oddball combination of those.
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