Does someone need to take minutes in every meeting? That’s a job for a bot, a transcript, and an email. Don’t put someone in charge of writing minutes when they could be contributing so much more to the meeting at hand.

How many times have you shown up to the next meeting with no one having done their follow-ups for the next meeting? Next time it happens, that person gets no follow-ups, delegate to someone else who gets theirs done. If no one is getting follow-ups done, don’t assign them – sounds bad – but if no one’s doing what you need them to, then either you have the wrong roster in the meeting that cares…

Remote Leadership is a different beast of leadership. You need to reach out, engage, discuss, follow up, call (yes call), and organize sit-downs. You can’t just walk by someone’s desk and see they’re having a bad day, you need to reach out to them, you need to talk to them, you need to find a way to poke without disrupting them. It’s not easy, it takes effort, and it takes a change in the style…

The only score is growth. Are you improving? Are you growing? Are you getting better? It’s not a short game, it’s a long game, and you’re just getting started.