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
By Wayne Turmel, co-founder of the Remote Leadership Institute. Whenever you introduce a new teammate, it’s important that you make both the new employee and the existing team members as comfortable with each other as possible. A proper introduction is key to building trust among teammates and to maintaining productivity. More than that, it’s just
Few people can achieve as much when they are working alone as they can with the collaborative help of others … if that collaboration is truly helpful. You hopefully have experienced times where a group was really clicking and operating on all cylinders It’s amazing the amount of progress that can be made. However, you’ve likely also experienced
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