Team Building for Remote Teams

Many of us work in fully remote or hybrid teams these days. When you get hired into a leadership role for a remote or hybrid team – especially in organizations who have only worked in that style for the last two years, you may find that really challenging. There are a number of reasons whyContinue reading “Team Building for Remote Teams”

How might we get more comfortable with challenging situations?

Life is throwing new challenges at us almost all the time. As Leaders feeling challenged is something all of us face. We are continuously tasked to come up with solutions to complex problems, often while no obvious best approach is known to us (or anyone in our team). That can makes us feel inadequate orContinue reading “How might we get more comfortable with challenging situations?”

How much change is too much?

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a bit more certainty again? Like you plan your vacation and you feel pretty sure you’ll actually be able to go? No need for checking the cancellation policy and the Covid related refund policy, no worry about a relatively realistic chance of getting sick in another country, no worryContinue reading “How much change is too much?”

I really dislike those forced fun exercises

[Photo by Frank Leuderalbert on Unsplash] I’ve heard this so many times. I really dislike those organized fun games at work and I really don’t want to be a part of it. And at the same time we are all experiencing a massive loss of joy and connection that happened as a result of notContinue reading “I really dislike those forced fun exercises”

Scaling remote teams in a Pandemic

Scaling teams is hard enough in normal times, but scaling remote teams in a Pandemic is a special kind of hard. All those “soft” skills around team building, trust building, relationship building out of a sudden become non-negotiable success factors for leaders. They become the new “hard” skills in successfully leading a remote team. InContinue reading “Scaling remote teams in a Pandemic”