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.
When it doesn’t work the first, second, third, fourth, or fifth time. Get up and try again. It’s the only way you’ll make it work, but if you don’t get up the first four times, you’ll never get to the fifth to try it again.
If they come out 5 minutes before the meeting, they are pointless – no one is reading it – they are on their way to the meeting. If they come out two days before the meeting, they are read through and forgotten. And so much can happen in two days that they are probably going to change. Every story has a start, middle, and end – that’s what makes a great story. Lead with that…
Yourself. Your actions. Your purpose. You can make the best of a bad situation or the worst of a great one. Everything is in your hands in how you approach and how you deal with the situation at hand. That is you can control, that is where you can help people, that is where you can lead.