Is it harder to lead a remote team?
Valentina Th?rner
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Is it harder to play basketball than to play handball?
If you’ve been playing handball for the past two decades, probably.
Is it more difficult to run a marathon than to excell in 100m sprints?
If you’ve only ever done speedwork over short distances, very likely.
Is it harder to lead a remote team than to lead in an office environment?
If you only started leading remotely during the pandemic, that’s how it feels.
Is it harder, though, or do you have less practice?
If you are leading a distributed team today, chances are you were never a team member in a distributed team. It’s very likely you don’t have a lot of examples to draw on. You were usually led in person - and now you have to figure out how to do this remotely, often without a lot of structure or guidance.
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Of course, there’s great resources out there on the logistics of leading a remote team. There’s no shortage of tactics and best-practices - and yet, that may not be helpful if you don’t know where to start, or where to focus on first.
So, here’s a little tool you can use to figure out what you are already doing great, where you may have some blind spots - and what to look for. This is what the Remote Leadership Radar looks like:
By scoring yourself on three categories for each leadership skill you can quickly figure out where you excel and where you are struggling (or maybe you can already see that from the example phrases).
Then, you can find solutions for the areas where you feel lost - and use your areas of excelence to shape your personal leadership style. Worst case, you get the confirmation that you are doing a pretty god job all things considered.
This afternoon, the amazing Rowena Hennigan and me are going to dissect the radar in a special Remote Leadership Masterclass.
If you want to have a copy of your own worksheet beforehand, make sure to download it here beforehand. This is also where we are going to send the recording and any additional resources to.
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1 年Valentina Th?rner Welcome back ! Looking forward to the insightful conversation.
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1 年This was so insightful Valentina Th?rner and Rowena Hennigan. Your interactions with each other showed a beautiful connection exists even though you both work remotely. I personally have found this close connection difficult to achieve with people I meet and work with remotely rather than having met and work in person before going to remote work. There is less time interacting with another even if not in words. There is something to be said about sitting next to someone even if little is said. There is still an interaction that adds up to a relationship over a much shorter time than if we are working remotely. That being said, if we start remotely we can create rituals for building strong relationships in short spaces of time too. It can go either way, if we know how to master them both.