If all around you is stress, chances are you aren’t shipping much. Chances are you’re behind, you’re not on time and nothing is helping you move forward. It’s not for lack of effort, but rather because you’re focused on leading only one thing – stress. But, you can’t lead stress. You can manage stress – you can mitigate it, break it down, isolate its touch points, figure out what is causing it, and adjust from…
Leading Teams is not an easy endeavour. Nothing ever goes perfectly well and the person to blame will always be the leader. If you can handle and shoulder that blame as you take on a new challenge, as you pick up your feet and try again. You have the makings of a leader, that is in short supply, that your team needs.
Is it the person who called it? The one with the most seniority? The person who calls the meeting isn’t necessarily the one who’s going to lead it. Their role was to get everyone together, but who leads it? What are you discussing? What’s the problem you’re trying to solve? Start there, that’s your leader.
Remote Leadership is a different beast of leadership. You need to reach out, engage, discuss, follow up, call (yes call), and organize sit-downs. You can’t just walk by someone’s desk and see they’re having a bad day, you need to reach out to them, you need to talk to them, you need to find a way to poke without disrupting them. It’s not easy, it takes effort, and it takes a change in the style…
Yourself. Your actions. Your purpose. You can make the best of a bad situation or the worst of a great one. Everything is in your hands in how you approach and how you deal with the situation at hand. That is you can control, that is where you can help people, that is where you can lead.