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3 Bad Reasons Teleworkers are Productive

By Wayne Turmel Recently, a statistic has been cropping up that seems like very good news for teleworkers and the companies they work for. But, like all such numbers, there’s more there than meets the eye. First, the good news: teleworkers have been shown to handle individual tasks better and get more done than their

Q1 is Over: Is Your Virtual Team On Track to Hit Your 2017 Goals?

By Wayne Turmel The first quarter of 2017 and has come and gone. While the year may still seem young, it’s not too early to check the pulse of your team, evaluate what is and isn’t working, and take action to resolve any issues. After all, the next quarter will go by as quickly as

The Bunny-Slipper Mystique

By Wayne Turmel I don’t know exactly when it happened, but very early on in telecommuting and having people work from home, there arose the myth that, “They’re sitting at home in their bunny slippers…” This raises two important questions: Who actually owns bunny slippers, anyway? So what? That’s not being facetious (well, not for

4 Critical Actions for Every New Virtual Team Leader

By Kevin Eikenberry Leading a team for the first time undoubtedly comes with a slew of challenges. On top of handling your new responsibilities and priorities, you have to build trust, manage conflicts, boost morale, and motive employees from afar. While the basic leadership principles remain the same, how you apply them varies depending on

3 Ways to Maintain Focus When Working from Home

By Wayne Turmel Working from home can be wonderful for productivity. In fact, studies show that people who work from home get more tasks done on average than people who schlep into the office. However, there are also a few challenges to staying focused. Here are three tips for staying focused: Dirty dishes (or laundry,

How Do You Know if Employees Have Disengaged?

By Jaimy Ford When you lead a virtual team, one of your biggest challenges is assessing each employee’s engagement level. After all, you can’t monitor body language during meetings for clues that employees are bored. Because you likely communicate via email most of the time, you can’t rely on employees’ tone of voice to determine if they are

3 Questions to Ask Before a Virtual Meeting

By Wayne Turmel Meetings are considered a necessary evil, and virtual meetings are often thought of as more evil than most. But do they have to be evil, and are they really necessary? It’s easy to say that “all meetings are a waste of time,” and “if they’d just leave me alone I’d get some

Leading a Virtual Team is Not as Different as You Might Think

Is leading a remote team really that different from leading a team where everyone works in the same place? Of course: Informal communication with remote employees is not nearly as easy as it is with on-site staff. Technology plays a pivotal role in communication, and learning how to use it and maximize the benefit of

The Case for Making Meetings More Fun

By Wayne Turmel Should virtual meetings be fun? I think so, and in fact, I think fun during meetings should be a priority. Not everyone agrees. In fact, some people downright hate that idea. After all, they say, meetings take too much time as it is. Fun just wastes time. People should do what needs to be done,

The “Reply All” Dilemma

By Wayne Turmel One of the joys of email is the ability to send a single message to multiple people at the same time. I mean, it’s not like the “reply all” button invented itself. It’s often useful. Often… but not always. So the supposedly simple question is: When do you hit ‘Reply All’ and

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