2019-08-12 | Defining Successful Distance Leaders
Distance sometimes magnifies poor leadership. Distance working comes with its own set of challenges and stressors. Whether it’s the amount of time spent alone, the always-close proximity of work at home, or the invasion of personal time with work issues, distance...
2019-08-05 | Addressing Virtual Team Multiculturalism
It’s obvious that global communications are hard. What’s not as obvious is what strategies you can use to communicate globally. I ran a team once that spanned several countries, about 10 time zone hours, and multiple cultural backgrounds. There were some...
2019-07-29 | Overcoming Virtual Team Performance Problems and Failures
Being a distance leader requires new observation skills. Imagine yourself in this situation: In a regularly scheduled one-on-one video call with a productive employee on your team, she mentions that she has been unhappy with her work lately. This worker, Trina, has a...
2019-07-22 | Resolving Virtual Team Conflict
My parental reflex is to say, “I don’t care who started it, but I am going to end it NOW.” Conflict on teams is inevitable, and should be expected as well as addressed. If you’re an experienced leader, then you know how conflict is a normal...
2019-07-15 | Distance Leader Work-Life Balance
Why do we let technology take over our lives? One of the hardest challenges to overcome as a distance leader is the feeling that you have to be available for work 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A lot of people feel that way, so it’s nothing new, but when...
2019-07-08 | Distance Leader Career Challenges
Visibility comes in many shapes and sizes. What’s going to fit you? I once overhead a conversation about me when I was walking behind some colleagues. I had developed a set of resources that were distributed to over 100 different locations and 300 professionals,...
2019-07-01 | Defining Successful Distance Leaders
How do you create a leadership presence or brand when you are a distance leader? This question is shared by distance leaders, and virtual workers, around the world, and not easily answered with a few glib, “post your picture on LinkedIn” responses. When...
