This blog post is part of our Evolving Workplace series. To hear more thought leadership, check out series episodes on the Remarkable Leadership Podcast. It’s tempting to think that remote work has been around long enough that we have figured it out. But there are differing opinions: It is a lifesaver. Unless it’s a disaster and

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A new year brings a lot of changes. One is that more companies have decided to go back to the office and reduce the amount of remote or hybrid work. While there are some solid arguments to be made for this, there are questions that need to be addressed if it’s to succeed in 2025.Here

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Teamwork, in its purest form, is simply a group of people working together towards achieving a common goal. Like most things that sound simple, there’s a lot to unpack. This is particularly true when the team isn’t co-located. How do you help everyone understand and stay focused on the goal? It helps if you realize

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As leaders and human beings, listening is a skill that most of us recognize as critical. Yet, despite its importance, we all have moments where we fail to listen as well as we should. Whether we’re distracted by the buzz of a phone or mentally preparing our next response, these common barriers prevent us from

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Building trust – and maintaining it – is never easy. And if you didn’t know that before, the events in recent years proved to us that it can be even harder when we don’t see each other regularly (or ever). And while difficult, many good things happen for team dynamics and results when trust is

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Most people have been building relationships their whole lives. Yet, through nearly all of human history, that has been done face to face. Until the last few hundred years, we never even met (let alone had relationships with) people that lived very far from us. And until the phone, then email, and now all the

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Everyone has an opinion about hybrid teams – and they aren’t all the same. Some people love the approach, some prefer to be in the office every day, others would prefer to only come in for (very) special events. Yet regardless of how we feel – and whether we call hybrid work a compromise or

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How will Artificial Intelligence help organizations, teams and workers develop a new normal? This is an important question when it comes to remote and hybrid work. By eliminating some of the mundane tasks, and making it easier to get answers, how we spend our time, indeed how we define what we do for work, will

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Delegation is a crucial skill for any leader, yet it can be challenging to execute effectively. In this post, part of a three-part series on delegation, I’ll share three essential questions you should ask yourself before delegating any task. These questions will help ensure that your delegation efforts are not only effective but also beneficial

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Remote and hybrid team leaders are often frustrated when trying to find ways to build relationships and enhance communication. One of the best ways to do that involves something we often think of as a solitary activity – reading. This may seem like an unpleasant concept. Few of us enjoyed writing book reports and automatically hated

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