With remote leadership, it’s easy to succumb to management practices that hurt our team. Here’s how to avoid doing so. I’m deeply troubled: Remote leadership can bring out the worst in us as leaders if we’re not mindful. Let me explain. Amidst COVID-19 with more teams are becoming remote than ever before, leaders who are…
In these troubling times, a lack of motivation at work might not only affect your employees – it can affect you as a leader, too. Consider these 5 tips. You don’t want to be feeling it, but there it is: A lack of motivation at work. That. You’ve noticed it bubbling up inside of you…
We’re giving away our “Guide to Managing Remote Teams” for free – it’s 60+ pages of best practices for managing remote teams, based on data from 297 remote managers and employees. Sheesh, it’s been quite the week, hasn’t it? I’ve gotten numerous questions about managing remote teams, as more folks are transitioning to work from…
As author, feedback coach, and speaker, Anna shared her expertise and lessons in giving feedback in our leadership community, The Watercooler. Every month, we invite one of the 1,000+ managers who are a part of our leadership community in Know Your Team, The Watercooler, from all over the world to participate in an “Ask Me…
Daily stand-up meetings might be the quickest way to waste your time as a leader. Here’s why a daily stand-up meeting doesn’t work and what to do instead. “Is this daily stand-up meeting over yet?” The meeting is only 8 minutes in and no one has uttered those words outright…. but they don’t need to.…
If you’re a new manager, focus on these 3 tips for new managers and nothing else. “Help! I’m a new manager and have so much going on… Can you give me some tips for new managers?” A version of this sentiment is expressed to me at least several times a day. I share this not…
Micromanage less and coach employees more by asking these key 1-on-1 meeting questions. The key to coaching employees lies in a single, straightforward choice: The 1-on-1 meeting questions you choose to ask. You may be raising an eyebrow at this. Surely, you’ve heard enough hype about how “you need to be holding one-on-ones as a…
From our 1,000+ managers all over the world in our Watercooler community, here are 4 valuable management lessons that I’ve personally learned already this year. Management lessons are everywhere. You can read them in books, listen to them on podcasts, and hear them live during conference talks. Don’t get me wrong, these are all great…
If you’re a new manager, here are the exact one-on-one meeting questions, agenda template, and approach you can take for your first one-on-one meeting with an employee. If there’s anything you should be supremely focused on as a new manager, it’s your first one-on-one meeting with an employee. That first encounter might seem like a…
As the co-founder of Shield GEO, a global employment organization that helps companies who want to hire someone in a country where they are unable to employ them directly, Tim shared his expertise and international employment lessons in our leadership community, The Watercooler. Every month, we invite one of the 1,000+ managers who are a…