Who does what? Who actually does what? Who needs support? Who is struggling? Who is doing great but getting lazy because they aren’t learning anything? Who is overloaded? Who is being missed? Who needs a kick? These are the questions you need to ask yourself when taking stock of your team.  This is what helps you understand who needs help, where and when and how to plan your strategy out to help them.

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.

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…

You used to be able to talk with someone and realize the conversation is going to go longer and realize there was a need to have an ad-hoc 2-hour meeting to map out everything that was happening. You never came out of that thinking – “that was a waste of time”. The value of ad-hoc meetings is that they are instantiated at the time a problem is discovered – “Hey we need to chat” -…