By Wayne Turmel Just in case you got all comfortable using your shiny new Skype for Business platform with your team, now comes news that it’s all going away. Kind of. Microsoft has announced that it’s going to move away from Skype for Business as its main collaboration tool and roll out Microsoft Teams. This
By Kevin Eikenberry, co-founder of the Remote Leadership Institute. Engagement is a very trendy word these days. No doubt, it is a critical component of every workplace. However, many experts, including writers, speakers and consultants have made the idea of engagement far too complex. So let’s get past all of that right now. Let’s get to
By Kevin Eikenberry, co-founder of the Remote Leadership Institute. Shiny object syndrome. Most of us have at least a touch of it. The moment your team has mastered one technology, you read about a new one that you just have to give a try. Just about the time you are making some progress on a task, your
By Wayne Turmel Have you ever heard these complaints from your team? “The people in the home office have it so much better than the people who work from home.” (or vice versa…. Both sides complain about the other) “I don’t even know what everyone else is doing.” “My boss keeps changing priorities on me;
By Wayne Turmel, co-founder of the Remote Leadership Institute Whenever I talk to people who telecommute or work from home, I hear, “I am so much more productive at home. I get all my work done without interruption.” That’s great, and it’s important. But when I ask them if they’re more productive, they look at
You are not a control freak. You are not a micro-manager. (Keep repeating this until it either feels true or you decide to stop being a control freak micro-manager.) Still, your life would be a little less stressful if you just knew what was happening with the team members who work far from you. You’re
This is a guest post by Ric Pratte, CEO and co-founder of AlignMeeting. Leading an effective meeting is far more than scheduling a block of time on everyone’s calendar. As a leader. you’re the one whom people expect to set goals, provide details and move the group forward so that you can hit the goals. When you’re
By Wayne Turmel Many organizations aren’t quite sure where to start when it comes to helping their leaders adapt to a world where half their people are in the office, and others are scattered to the four corners of the world (or the nearest Starbucks.) In our book, The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote
In our post, Confronting Toxic Employees on Your Virtual Team, we talked about how to address employees who are causing problems on your team. Being able to take that very important step starts with recognizing signs of conflict. That’s easy to do when you are in the same office, but for remote or hybrid team
In the August 6 Chicago Tribune, the lead story in the Business section was how there are pros and cons to having employees work remotely. This hardly seems like ground-breaking journalism, but there were some excellent points made in the article that tend to get lost in the binary, either-or discussions that usually take place
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