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Due to the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations around the world are resorting to remote work. Even before the crisis, adoption of remote work has been increasing in the United States. Between 2005 and 2017, there was a 159 percent increase in remote workers. Today, more than 3.9 million U...
Uncertainty during an in-person meeting? You can always pop in your teammate’s office and clarify. But in the case of virtual meetings, it can cost a lot of extra time and efforts to bridge gaps and fix misunderstandings. Therefore, in the time of mandatory remote work, it important for leaders to s...
The nature of leadership is to influence others to achieve certain goals. At Lead Read Today, we’ve discussed many strategies for increasing your influence and persuasiveness . Today, we will look at how to apply some of these basic principles of influence and persuasion to virtual communications. S...
Many empirical studies have pointed out that when teams work together remotely, levels of conflict increase. This rise of conflicts can be due to distrust (caused by the “invisibility” of team members’ behaviors), [1] misinterpretation of intentions (caused by lack of social context of email and pho...
With the advancement of online collaboration technology, corporations worldwide have been experimenting on remote work for many years. The pandemic and “stay at home” orders further sped up a full transition to working remotely, especially for technology companies (i.e., Twitter, Dropbox, Square, Sa...
Key Takeaways: As the pandemic continues, employee engagement and trust is beginning to break down Leaders can take action to support their employees Creating a micro-level pulse survey is a strong and immediate strategy to gain insights needed to better support your employees In these strange times...
This two-part series is designed to provide leaders and managers a series of strategies to aid their abrupt transition to working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. This piece includes ideas to structure communication and roles and responsibilities while working remotely. Best practices from thi...
While a team of rivals may have been a good strategy for the cabinet of Abraham Lincoln, I can assure you it is not a good idea when putting together a board of directors for a startup. The value a competent board can bring to the table in offering guidance and direction is truly limitless and can h...
Key takeaways The more geographically dissimilar individuals are from other members of their team (i.e. team members come from other parts of the world or the country), and the stronger the emotions they experience when they first meet those teams, together affect how influential they are in that te...
COVID-19 has forced many leaders and managers to transition to online coaching and development for some time now. Yet, coaching for development within organizations appeared as a trend in 2015 when companies like GE announced they were ditching the annual performance review in favor of more continuo...
