8 Great Year-Round (Free!) Gifts Everyone on Your Team is Guaranteed to Love
Give a gift every day for 29 days straight? Yeah, right – as if I have the time (and money), with everything I’m already juggling! But that’s what a colleague just invited her friends to do. When she...
View ArticleFrom Bland and Boring to Captivating and Compelling –
What Virtual Leaders Must Know Even the most experienced team leaders can make us weep with boredom. They torture us with their monotone narrations of 10-Mb slide decks. They regale us with irrelevant...
View ArticleYou’d Be a Great (Virtual) Communicator If Only You Could Just Be Quiet
Quick: What’s the #1 skill successful virtual leaders must have, which is usually hardest for them to cultivate? If you said “listening,” you’d be right. Why it’s so important is pretty obvious....
View ArticleStop Playing Favorites for a Stronger (Virtual) Team
Most sports coaches say that one of the hardest parts of their job is to coax the best from each player. But when some players are bigger, stronger or faster than their teammates, leveling the playing...
View ArticleBreaking the Wall of Silence in a Virtual World
If you have ever led a virtual meeting, this scenario is familiar: You pose a brilliant provocative question, hoping to trigger a flurry of insightful responses. And instead, you hear….Nothing. Nada....
View ArticleIt’s What People Aren’t Saying That Leaders Most Need to Hear
We’ve seen many leaders win promotions simply because they excel at managing upwards. You know the type: They grab the plum projects for themselves, doling out the routine work to others. Since they...
View ArticleBuilding Trust Within Virtual Teams – Small Steps Add Up
When we ask clients to name the toughest challenge associated with leading virtual teams, there is one answer that always pops to the top of the list: Building trust. Or in some cases, it’s re-building...
View ArticleCoalescing a New Team – Creating Ties That Bind
Maybe you’ve inherited new team members from another group within your company as a result of recent reorganization. Or perhaps your company has merged with another, giving you a whole new group to...
View ArticleTackling Tough Issues Remotely, When Your Boss is the Problem
We hear a lot about how virtual leaders can deal effectively with workplace conflicts and performance problems. (In fact, many people have written books on the topic, including me!) But we don’t hear...
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