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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.

When the Remote Work Honeymoon is Over

https://youtu.be/KriFKRF0S1A?rel=0&showinfo=0 So you’ve been working from home for a couple of weeks now. How are you feeling about it now? Leaders, you need to be prepared for the new challenges once the novelty of remote working has gone away. You’re still going to be doing this awhile longer. How will you respond?

New Remote Leaders: Have you answered these 5 questions yet?

How’s it going for new remote leaders? It’s understandable if you’re feeling a little out of sorts right now. You’re still in the middle of a whirlwind transition to a new way of working…and oh yeah, there’s this global pandemic thing going on outside, too. As you’ve rushed to get your team prepared for working

Why Social Distancing is an Unfortunate Choice of Words

by Kevin Eikenberry, Co-founder If you are like me, you had never heard the phrase “social distancing” a month ago. Now, it is something we hear almost every hour. And while I understand the purpose of and support the goal of the practice (doing things to reduce the possible spread of the coronavirus is the

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