If you lead a team, odds are you’re exhausted. Helping your people stay productive when working from home or under other kinds of constraints hasn’t been easy. Add to that here in the US (and in large cities around the world) more than a week of protest and civil unrest and the flood of news and social media that goes with that, and it is no wonder your stress level is … [Read more...]
How to Create a Virtual Water Cooler
How often have you leaned across your desk or paused in an office doorway to ask a colleague a question? Or made eye contact with a team member and raised your eyebrows, a show of silent, supportive communication in the face of a tricky client? Along with water cooler conversations, these small confidences and day-to-day interactions are the building blocks of great working … [Read more...]
How Much Do You Know About Your Team’s IT Problems?
Working from home is certainly having its moment, and we couldn’t do it with out our good friends in IT. On the one hand, hundreds of thousands of people who never expected to work from their dining room table are making it work. It’s kind of magical when you think about it. Technology is amazing, when it works. But when it doesn’t, it can be frustrating and slow things down. … [Read more...]
The Importance of Remote Team Building
by Kevin Eikenberry, co-founder Remote Leadership Institute The transition from leading from the corner office to leading from home has created a number of logistical and management challenges. We've already unpacked a number of those here on this site, in our book, The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership, and on our COVID-19 resource site. If you … [Read more...]
Why Social Distancing is an Unfortunate Choice of Words
by Kevin Eikenberry, Co-founder If you are like me, you had never heard the phrase "social distancing" a month ago. Now, it is something we hear almost every hour. And while I understand the purpose of and support the goal of the practice (doing things to reduce the possible spread of the coronavirus is the right thing to do) to me it's just the wrong choice of words. It … [Read more...]