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Build On Your Project Team’s Huge Success

By Kevin Eikenberry, co-founder of The Remote Leadership Institute. Your team has just completed a major project, after months of tremendous effort and dedication. You hit your goal, and everyone is excited, relieved and feeling a great sense of satisfaction. Everyone is also tired and might not know what comes next. What do you do

Culture Isn’t Fancy-Schmancy

When people talk about remote teams, one of the big questions is about company culture. How can we create a good team culture when everyone (or at least some of the team) are located away from each other? How can we maintain the team (or company) culture now that we’re located all over the place?

4 Ways to Overcome the Challenges of Long-Distance Leadership

By Merge Gupta-Sunderji, MBA, CSP Face-to-face leadership is tough enough, but managing remote employees adds a whole new level of complexity. Not only is it harder to keep up with what remote employees are doing, but motivating them is a huge leadership challenge. The reality is that remote workers are becoming the norm. Whether it’s

Remote Leadership Lessons from The Martian

By Wayne Turmel As leaders, we need to constantly educate ourselves and that can seem a bit onerous. Business books are so darned serious, and it’s not like we have a lot of spare time to dedicate to self-improvement. Not to be snarky about it, but it’s a little disheartening to think that 42% of

Can You Be In Touch Too Much?

By Wayne Turmel The good news about today’s 24/7 workplace is that it gives us the freedom to get work done nearly anywhere at any time. The bad news is that can quickly become everywhere, all the time. How can we be sure that we’re being responsive (and responsible) without becoming a slave to communication?

5 Unusual Productivity Tips for Project Leaders

By Kevin Eikenberry, co-founder of The Remote Leadership Institute. There are two key words in the title of this post, and one, or the combination of them, is why you are reading. So before I get to the tips, let’s look at those two words. First up: Unusual. Much has been written about productivity, so

Is a Bad Attitude Hurting Your Ability to Lead?

Do you inspire your team or discourage them? Your leadership style—whether positive or negative—matters more than you realize. In fact, your attitude makes all the difference in the culture and success of your team, especially when it comes to virtual employees. They often feel isolated, and you may be their most important connection to the

When Hearing Nothing Means an Awful Lot

By Wayne Turmel Working from home often means staying out of a lot of noise and drama that take place in the office or co-located workplace. That can be a blessing, to be sure. But sometimes silence can be ominous. In fact, being left too much to our own devices can be one sign that

Enough Already: Stop Trying to Micromanage Your Remote Employees

By Kevin Eikenberry Almost everyone has worked for a micromanager at some point. You know the type who insists on signing off on everything, who wants you to document your every move, who requests ridiculously long status and progress reports, and who basically dictates how employees should do their work. I never understood why a leader

How Do You Know They’re Working?

By Wayne Turmel When people are new to leading remote teams, the most frequently asked question we get is, “How do you know they’re really working?” It seems like a reasonable question at first; after all, that’s why you’re paying them, and you want to be sure the goals are being met and tasks achieved

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