2019-12-02 | Distance Leader Work-Life Balance
Sometimes you have to fight for your boundaries I was sitting in my doctor’s office for an early-morning appointment. I would be back home, and back to work, by 9:00 AM, so I didn’t need to take any time off. As I was sitting in the waiting room, my boss called. I...
2019-11-18 | Distance Leader Career Challenges
Leading virtually doesn’t make you any less of a leader. I have a colleague, Miguel*, who tries to hide the fact that he is a distance leader. He led a team in the office in his previous role, but his current team is 100% virtual, and he works from home, now, too....
2019-11-04 | Defining Successful Distance Leaders
How you delegate difficult projects actually matters. I had been asked to coordinate a team to develop specific resources for an international client. I found the right people, organized the task and coordinated meetings where we would be constructing resources in an...
2019-10-28 | Addressing Virtual Team Multiculturalism
People are often an extension of their culture in the workplace. I have been fortunate enough to work with people from many different cultures. Whether as a leader of multicultural teams or as a team member myself, I found that working with multiple perspectives led...
2019-10-21 | Overcoming Virtual Team Performance Problems and Failures
A virtuous cycle or a vicious cycle? The choice is yours. I had just started a new job, and was on my first “solo” presentation after training. At the time, I had gone through some tremendous upheavals in my life, and was still a little shaky in my role. The content...
2019-10-14 | Resolving Virtual Team Conflict
At the risk of preaching to the choir, let me say this: Don’t hide behind your emails. My boss had told another leader in the organization that I would be helping with a project… but never told me. Has that ever happened to you? I found out when I received an email...
