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LEADING REMOTELY

In case you missed it, click on the replay and the slides from our live presentation on tips and strategies to foster connection when leading remotely.
This 40-min video will teach you:
  • How to look beneath the surface to understand your employees' real needs 
  • Practical tips to implement immediately
  • Technical tips in leading your own engaging, virtual meeting
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Best Practices for Connecting Virtually

Make yourself available
  • Use video! (also forces you to shower and get dressed!)
  • Offer many forums to connect… they may not show up but give them opportunities to connect
  • Continue your 1:1 calls and check in more regularly
  • Schedule team huddles/team meetings to connect as a group
  • Offer video-based all hands and rotate leaders to run the meeting
  • Offer “open mic” where you don’t have an agenda but just take comments and questions from your staff
 
Focus on the people/ culture
  • Offer virtual happy hours
  • Match the picture with the person… favorite show, hobby, pet, etc.
  • Host a pot luck lunch- share recipes
  • Play online games – e.g. games through House Party like Pictionary
  • Lunch and learns to allow staff to teach others ways to be efficient with technology or teach work-related content to peers
  •  Involve your team in creating opportunities to connect
  • For 1:1s - > Don’t skip the small talk… If your employee shares challenges, listen and pause. Acknowledge what they’re going through vs. jumping in to problem solve right away. Ask questions such as:
    • How are you doing?
    • What’s changed for you this week?
    • What are you still struggling with?
    •  How can I support you?
    • What is working well?
Carve out time for yourself
  • Set aside time for you- exercise, yoga, meditation, sleep… get yourself in order first.
  • Set up a long(er)-term solution for your workspace. If you are working on your bed or couch.. you will be feeling the pain soon. Take care of your body!
 
Focus on business needs/challenges
  • Resist the urge to “protect” your team- they can handle it
  • Talk about shifting priorities
    • What is no longer a priority?
    • What can we put on hold?
    • What is something that if we removed it, no one would notice.
    • What are our "need to haves" and "nice to haves?"
 
Create consistency in norms/protocol
  • What technology should we all use?
  • How do we want to manage our IM status?
  • Do we have an updated list of phone numbers? Or, did everyone forward their calls?
  • How often do we agree to get back to each other?
  • How do we reach each other for emergencies?
  • What are email protocol?
  • When should we pick up the phone to call each other?
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Look for ways to customize and be flexible. Co-Create!
  • This is not the time to be BRILLIANT! You may not know the answer, we’re all figuring this out together.
  • Everyone’s different (some people love social distancing)
  • Be flexible with hours working
  • Focus on the deliverables not the time spent working

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