Remote working

Almost 90% of project teams now include one or more workers who operate from different locations than their supervisors and teammates👩🏻‍💻. 
Nearly 80% of managers now supervise a worker or workers at remote locations!!

✍️ Many leaders face isolation because their team members are far away. These “long-distance leaders” need to use a variety of tools specifically designed to address distance leadership issues and concerns ✍️

🔝 4️⃣ rules for working with long-distance employees are…

• “Building trust at a distance doesn’t happen by accident” – Trust is evidence-based. Many leaders of remote workers ask, “How will I know they’re working if I can’t see them?” To establish trust, establish and nurture a common purpose, motives and competence between your home office and remote workers.
To engender trust, be strategic about meetings‼️.

• Identify the most effective communication tools 🔭 – Since distance leaders depend on high-tech communication to interact with remote workers, seek the best tools for each communication purpose. Unless you run your company, someone else is likely to choose your high-tech tools for you.
It is your responsibility to know what tools are available, how to use them and which ones best suit your purposes😉

• Get the highest capacity out of each tool – Stay up to date on the latest advanced technologies. Technology changes all the time, so make tracking those changes a priority. Such technology includes the latest advanced video and video chat services; webcams; web meeting tools; texting and instant messaging tools; and file-storage tools such as SharePoint or Teams 🤓‼️

•  “Seek feedback” – Every leader requires unbiased, objective feedback. Find people you can rely upon to be honest 🧐. Don’t try to gain all your feedback in one conversation; use several interactions in different formats over time.

🖋 By Kevin Eikenberry as chief potential officer at the Kevin Eikenberry Group and Wayne Turmel, co-founder of the Remote Leadership Institute.