Being a Long-Distance Role Model

Ask most anyone to tell you why someone is a great leader, and you will likely hear that they are a role model.  Ask most who are leading remotely, and they will wonder what it means to be a long-distance role model. After all, how can you be a role model if people can’t even

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The Future is Now

The world has changed a lot in the last 20 months. And all of this change has rightly gotten everyone thinking and talking about the future of work. Where will we work, when we will work, how will we work, and will it all work? There is understandable uncertainty about those questions. But now isn’t

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Overcoming the Uncertainties of the Future of Work

As you live in this very uncertain present, you can see that the future of your work – where, when, and how you do it – might be changing. If that future looks murky, uncomfortable, or scary, you are not alone. And if you are looking not just for yourself but for your team or

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Disconnect to Stay Engaged

How do you know when an employee is engaged? The usual answers include obvious signs like  participation in meetings and projects, high quality work product, and responsiveness to requests from the manager and teammates. All of that is true, and there’s a paradox at work. It involves the ability to stay more engaged by disconnecting

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Picking Alternatives to Email

You tell me – is email the best thing since sliced bread or the bane of your work existence?  Chances are you have considered it to be both – perhaps on the same day. My colleague and co-author Wayne Turmel wrote a great post with the same title on our Remote Leadership Institute blog and

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Going Back to Old Spaces in a New Way

by Stacy Henry If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my life, it’s that you can’t go back to where you used to be. This is especially true today. Since 2020, our lives have changed. Our collected experience has given us better understanding, different expectations, and a new direction. As things are opening up and

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Creating a Hybrid Meeting Culture

How did meetings work in your organization before the pandemic? Now that you’re working in a hybrid fashion, have you made adjustments to that meeting culture? Kevin explains some important distinctions that certainly make a big difference. Stay in the know with all the latest developments in remote work with the Future of Work newsletter.

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Picking Alternatives to Email

by Wayne Turmel New leaders rely on the skills we had as teammates and the habits that made us successful. But what if there’s one thing you did that wasn’t as productive as you thought it was, and now is a great time to change? We’re talking about the over use and abuse of email.

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What are the High-Level Skills Organizations Need to Grow

Get a couple of books under your belt, and people ask you a lot of questions (and expect answers). Lately we have been asked about the skills needed for organizations to grow. I struggle to answer it, because the answer isn’t that simple. It’s easy to throw around buzzwords like, “ideation,” and everyone’s favorite, “synergistic

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Is Your Team Ready to Succeed in a Hybrid Workplace?

In order for your hybrid team to succeed, individual hybrid team members must have the skills to succeed.  The old cliché that the chain is only as strong as the weakest link definitely applies here.  Recently I wrote a post on the Remote Leadership Institute Blog about determining what those skills might be across your

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