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What Role Can a Leader Play in Employee Mental Health?

by Kevin Eikenberry, co-founder The Remote Leadership Institute Distress comes in many forms and from a variety of causes. As leaders, we want to help our team members be successful, and distress can be a serious barrier to successful outcomes. That is why we must understand the sources of distress before we can help people

How’s Your Team’s Six-Week Report Card?

Depending on where in North America you are, you’ve probably been working from home for six weeks now. We know it feels longer than that, but most of us experienced the reality of the COVID-19 crisis sometime between March 12 and 16th. So here’s an important question: How’s it going? Six weeks is 42 days. You

4 Tips to Help Your Team Return to the Office

Depending on where you live, in the coming weeks more and more workers will begin gradually returning to the office. This won’t be a seamless transition, nor will it even be a welcome change for many. Learn how your leadership can help smooth out the wrinkles.

Adapting to Help Your Team Meet New Challenges

by Kevin Eikenberry, co-founder The Remote Leadership Institute As you read this, you have challenges – likely some you haven’t experienced before. While I’m not sitting in your shoes, I’m betting you’re trying to help your team navigate a transition to a new way of working. This change came without warning and little time to

Are You Trying Way Too Hard to Make Zoom Meetings Fun?

We love fun. We are all about not taking life too seriously, especially when it seems like bad news is all around us and we are clinging to our remaining sanity by a thread. But are you trying too hard to make Zoom meetings fun? If it involves an alpaca or a goat, the answer

How to Influence Positive Mindsets on Your Remote Teams

by Kevin Eikenberry, co-founder The Remote Leadership Institute Even before the current COVID-19 crisis, leaders often asked me how to combat negative attitudes on their teams. These were mostly teams that worked together in the same location and so they were concerned about the infectious nature of negative attitudes. Now, with all the anxiety we’re

4 Tips for Making Web Meetings More Successful

When you aspired to be a leader, you probably didn’t think you were going to have to be Steven Spielberg, did you? Yet, that’s exactly how it can feel when it’s your task to run a successful web meeting. It’s not just the content, but the production that determines whether or not it’s time well

How to Measure Remote Work

One of the most common questions we get asked here is, “How do you measure people’s work when they aren’t in the office?” There is a smart-aleck answer, and a more thoughtful one (which is the one they really want to know, but we can’t resist sometimes). The glib, facile answer is to ask, “how

Taking Too Many for the Team

You’ve been working overtime now (literally and figuratively) helping to transition your business to a new remote setting. That’s come at an expense: your sanity and well-being. While “taking one for the team” is a noble concept, taking too many for the team will land you on the “disabled list” where you’ll be no help

The Importance of Remote Team Building

by Kevin Eikenberry, co-founder Remote Leadership Institute The transition from leading from the corner office to leading from home has created a number of logistical and management challenges. We’ve already unpacked a number of those here on this site, in our book, The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership, and on our COVID-19 resource site.

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