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For Employees
The Return to Office Fight is About Control not Productivity
I’ve had many conversations about returning to the office lately. In fact, I’m writing this post in a café in Ottawa while waiting to give a speech about it. I’ve...
Why People Don’t Want to Return to the Office
Are you reluctant to return to the office? Is your team? I know many people who are. One of them is helping to craft their company’s Return to Office program....
How to Strengthen Connection on Remote and Hybrid Teams
Are you finding that your virtual team is productive but not much fun? Are you spending hours with your teammates each week but still feeling like you barely know them...
Are You Using the Right Virtual Collaboration Tools?
Are you collaborating virtually more often these days? How are you finding it? Are you able to have just as interesting, innovative, in-depth discussions as if you were in person?...
Building Trust in Remote and Hybrid Teams
Trust is critical to the efficient and effective operation of any team. Research suggests that trust enhances productivity, proactivity, and optimism. But is that equally true for virtual teams? It...
The Pros and Cons of Hybrid Teams
Many teams won’t return to the same office-centric approach that existed before the pandemic drove people to their home offices (and kitchen tables) in March of 2020. Instead, the future...
How to Improve Hybrid Meetings
Have you suffered through a hybrid video meeting where you’re remote while a few of your teammates are together in person? Here’s my question. Did you at any point:
- Tune...
How to Make Yourself Feel Better
How goes the roller coaster? This is week four of isolation at our house and I’m becoming more and more interested in emotional regulation (not a coincidence). So many of...
How to Have an Uncomfortable Conversation Remotely
Do you have virtual teammates? Well, not virtual humans (at least not yet), but real people who work with you in a virtual office rather than a physical one? Working...
Working in a regional office
“We regional office people never know what’s going on!” I’ve heard versions of this statement many, many times both inside the organizations I have worked in and from people in...
Virtual Teams and How to Give Feedback from Afar
Every time I give a speech these days, I get at least a couple of questions about how my techniques apply to virtual teams . Given that my team at...
For Managers
The Return to Office Fight is About Control not Productivity
I’ve had many conversations about returning to the office lately. In fact, I’m writing this post in a café in Ottawa while waiting to give a speech about it. I’ve...
Why People Don’t Want to Return to the Office
Are you reluctant to return to the office? Is your team? I know many people who are. One of them is helping to craft their company’s Return to Office program....
How to Strengthen Connection on Remote and Hybrid Teams
Are you finding that your virtual team is productive but not much fun? Are you spending hours with your teammates each week but still feeling like you barely know them...
Building Trust in Remote and Hybrid Teams
Trust is critical to the efficient and effective operation of any team. Research suggests that trust enhances productivity, proactivity, and optimism. But is that equally true for virtual teams? It...
The Pros and Cons of Hybrid Teams
Many teams won’t return to the same office-centric approach that existed before the pandemic drove people to their home offices (and kitchen tables) in March of 2020. Instead, the future...
How to Improve Hybrid Meetings
Have you suffered through a hybrid video meeting where you’re remote while a few of your teammates are together in person? Here’s my question. Did you at any point:
- Tune...
Team Building Exercises for Remote Teams
There’s something missing when your team is separated from one another—something intangible. It’s that sense of where people are at, of how they’re doing. Sure, you don’t ever really know...
Reset Your Remote Management Approach
Updated On:
Oct 26, 2024
(I’ve gone into some detail in this post and therefore it's long. If you want this in a quicker, click-through version. You can check it...
How to Onboard New Employees Remotely
Now that we’re living in a hybrid world, many managers are facing the question of how to integrate a new team member remotely. On the plus side, you don’t have...
Working in a regional office
“We regional office people never know what’s going on!” I’ve heard versions of this statement many, many times both inside the organizations I have worked in and from people in...
Virtual Teams and How to Give Feedback from Afar
Every time I give a speech these days, I get at least a couple of questions about how my techniques apply to virtual teams . Given that my team at...
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