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
You don’t get to decide if you are a leader. Your employees do. That’s right. Regardless your title, position on the organizational chart, pay grade or authority to fire people, you can’t force people to believe in you. Your employees get to decide if you are truly worthy of their respect, support and loyalty. That
We really like talking about productivity here at the Remote Leadership Institute. After all, doing more in less time is a goal for most (if not all) leaders. While study after study shows that remote employees tend to be more productive then their office-bound counterparts, there is always room for improvement. That’s why we loved
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