How To Lead Remotely

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘Try to understand the cultural subtleties and really focus upon the interpretation of language– check understanding carefully.’- Vanessa Evans

‘Be clear on the explicit purpose of each of your virtual interactions.’– Vanessa Evans

‘Keep focusing on the strategic issues as it’s all too easy to be drawn into the daily tactical ones.’- Vanessa Evans

‘With teams on every continent, they have to be self-standing within the context of the broad corporate direction.’- Steve Finlan

‘Ensure everyone knows where we’re heading and how we’re doing- this allows everyone to make decisions within this context.’- Steve Finlan

‘Act as a connector, link individuals and teams together to help them widen their outlooks and thinking.’- Mike Hawes

‘Trust your teams and equally, be inquisitive about what’s both said and not said.’- Mike Hawes

‘Have a single set of priorities and measures that everyone is striving towards.’- Ian Herrett

‘Really understand what makes others tick– this enables you to have the easy and difficult conversations in the same unemotive way.’- Ian Herrett

‘Enable every leader to have access to all the data to encourage curiosity and cross-team learning.’– Ravindra Patel

Source

Mike Parkes (2021). Leading Remotely: Achieving Success in a Globally Connected World

How To Accelerate Growth

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘Business is a team sport! Everyone must up their skills and teamwork in order to achieve the future vision and goals!’

‘Role clarity is critical! No pro team would show up to a game without knowing their positions. If they did, it would look more like a free-for-all than professional play!’

‘The more psychological safety you generate, the more you can request people to perform outside their comfort zones. It requires courage to step up and take more ownership for delivering outcomes. That’s why they need safety!’

‘… being effective at leading innovation means that you have to master your ability to spend a lot of time in discomfort, and make it safe for your team to be in discomfort right alongside you.’

‘You must renegotiate if the outcome cannot be reached with the current plan.’

‘To have the culture you desire, you have to build good leadership habits!’

‘Recognizing when things go off track is key! You know you are off track when achieving the intended outcome isn’t possible without a significant change.’

‘Don’t offer anything you can’t or won’t actually do.’

‘Making clear, conscious, effective agreements is a foundational skill. It’s worth practicing to achieve mastery.’

‘Agreements are a process, not a promise. As situations change, so must the agreements. There is way too much change always happening in business to consider anything an unchangeable ‘promise.’

‘Delegation is a two-way process with mutual responsibility. When everyone involved is responsible to generate a good agreement, it takes the pressure off any one person to get it right.’

Source

Annie Hyman Pratt (2022). Seven Agreements Entrepreneurs and Leaders Make to Build Teams, Accelerate Growth, and Banish Burnout for Good