While the challenges of remote work may seem affecting leaders style- sometimes vanity, willingness, comfort state – there are effective solutions that can help managers overcome them and foster a productive and cohesive virtual team. Here are some key strategies to consider:
Decision Making across the World
As organizations move from local to trans-global enterprise models, they require leaders who can adjust to different environments quickly and work with partners and employees of other cultures. Managers from different cultures tend to have different views of the self, which affects individual’ cognition, goals in social interactions, and consequently influences their behavior and goals in decision making.
Let me start this training by sharing an examples collected from one of my trainees!
How to have a nice performance dialogue
Among the themes most challenging for managers across industries, performance related conversations with team members is always somewhere on top. Now why is that so complicated? Isn’t it something like “Hey Jack, you’ve done a good job but I know you can make it even better…”?
Leadership Lesson: Guidelines for effective team meetings
Truth be told, people hate office briefings. We tend to grumble and complain when we go to briefings, so instead of briefings we call them team meetings or gatherings, but sometimes even this change can’t help. The truth is that these meetings are important for the business development and everybody is aware of that in some way.
How will your team perform if you are not in the office?
Back to the last summer, it was the middle of August, the heat of the summer holidays. Yet, I was working hard in my office. My schedule was full of coaching sessions with tired, stressed out managers up to their ears in work and they all seem not to have time to enjoy the sunny days. How did this happen?