However, this is not impossible, since we now have various digital tools that allow us to ensure that the objectives are met.
People work remotely for various reasons, sometimes because they lead various business units, others because they cannot be physically present due to temporary incapacity.
We must empower teams and collaborators to be self-sufficient. Virtual Leadership also requires clear communication with your work team. Encourage your team’s work to always be results-oriented.
You must positively influence your team, your collaborators will appreciate your advice, your guidance and your feedback. Remember that many collaborators resign due to the poor leadership of their bosses, so you must be a Leader who makes a difference.
Many people complain that leaders do not respect working hours. The New Normality also implies new leadership, without a doubt there are great challenges for this reason we must update ourselves and empower our work team. Hybrid work is part of the New reality, people must self-manage and be focused on obtaining results, so we define online processes.
People require a learning curve, leaders must guide them to have better results.
Challenges or challenges of Remote Leadership:
- Confidence
- effective leadership
- Long distance comunication
- remote feedback
What is Remote Leadership?
It is the ability to lead people who are in different places, states or countries.
There are new ways of working, more dynamic and effective to promote productivity
We currently have messaging systems such as slack or whatsapp and you can also hold video conferences via zoom, webex or others. Remember that to speed up your work there are also tools like google drive, dropbox, workplace, one drive, there are also monitoring tools like Asana, Trello, Monday, Basecamp, etc.
How should remote leadership be?
Tips for remote leadership:
- communicate effectively
- feed back
- Define and communicate requirements delivery deadlines
- Build trust with your team
- Set work standards
- Define performance indicators
- Motivate your team
- encourage collaboration
- clarify doubts
- Set synchronous work schedules
- Empathize at a distance
- Give positive feedback
Distance Leadership Myths:
- Assume that the requested requirements were understood at the first
- Assume indicators are not required
- Assuming that a Leader should not be upgraded
- Virtual dynamics don’t work
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