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Mastering the Art of Leading Remote Work Teams

Rick Conlow

Bottom-line, companies with people-first culture led by Servant Leadership principles outperform their competitors. Time Mismanagement: Remote work requires effective time management skills. However, employees may struggle to prioritize tasks and allocate their time efficiently.

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Do You Know How Each Person on Your Team Likes to Work?

Harvard Business

When we travel to a country that has a different culture than ours, many of us spend time learning ways to communicate and connect with the people there. Similarly, when you first become a manager, it’s helpful to spend time up front connecting and creating a common language with your team. Marion Barraud for HBR.

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CC’ing the Boss on Email Makes Employees Feel Less Trusted

Harvard Business

To make matters worse, my findings indicated that when the supervisor was copied in often, employees felt less trusted, and this feeling automatically led them to infer that the organizational culture must be low in trust overall, fostering a culture of fear and low psychological safety.

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How to Help Your Team Manage Grunt Work

Harvard Business

Why Great Employees Leave “Great Cultures” Melissa Daimler. The previous week’s data needs to be compiled and reported by Monday at 4pm. Time management is a skill that many need help to learn, and as a manager, you may need to be the teacher. How to Lose Your Best Employees. Whitney Johnson.

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How to Convince Your Boss to Let You Work from Home

Harvard Business

” But, in fact, research suggests the opposite: Working from home increases productivity, efficiency, and engagement. Not only does working from home eliminate your commute, which for most people is “total wasted time,” but it also “allows you to be more focused and efficient.”

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Help Your Team Achieve Work-Life Balance — Even When You Can’t

Harvard Business

I responded that even if it is the norm for this company’s culture — and potentially many others — it is not acceptable universally, nor should it be. Nearly half, or 46% of the human resource leaders surveyed, reported that employee burnout accounts for 20-50% of their companies’ annual employee turnover.