Occasionally, I run across an article that reflects my thoughts as a distance leader and distance worker. A couple of months ago, Gina Boedeker, the founder and CEO of the Boedeker Group, wrote a fantastic article about the misconceptions that others may have of work-at-home employees and roles. Here's a link to the article in LinkedIn.com: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-do-you-when-work-from-home-spoiler-alert-some-best-boedeker/

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115-What Do You Do When You Work from Home?

This week on the Distance Leader Podcast show 0114, we’re talking about some great first steps in your role as a distance leader. Here are some of our guiding questions: How do I transition to a distance leader for employees I have never met? What can I do to “shrink the distance” between my employees and me?

114-Day 1 as a Distance Leader

This week on the Distance Leader Podcast show 0113, we’re talking about the expectations that distance leaders have for their teams. Here are some of our guiding questions: How do you maximize the time you have with part-time employees? How do you encourage effective work behaviors for team members who may not be comfortable working virtually?

113-Best ways to interact with virtual team members

This week on the Distance Leader Podcast show 0112, we’re talking about building appropriate team and employee expectations as a distance leader. Here are some of our guiding questions: How can a distance leader communicate expectations? How can a distance leader focus on positive, self-reinforcing interactions?

112-Building Team Expectations as a Distance Leader

What are some of the expectations do your employees have for you? What are some of the expectations you have for your boss(es)? This week's show addresses the concepts of hidden or discussed expectations as a distance leader... not an easy task!

0111-Employee Expectations of Distance Leaders

Often organizations develop competencies as a way to measure… something. It’s not quite clear, but the goal is to recognize behaviors and habits that lead to business success. In this episode, we discuss different methods of using competencies with employees and for leaders.

0110-Leadership & Employee Competencies

Today’s podcast is a very, very brief overview of competencies, or outcomes-relevant measures of knowledge, skills, abilities, and traits and/or motives. The history of competencies goes back into intelligence testing in the industrial age, leading to “grading” approaches that may not be the best ways to establish the right “fit” for a role or position in an organization. Instead, being able to understand the right competencies for the culture and job functions could yield better hiring and performance results.

0109-What are competencies?

At some point, I realized that I was a distance leader... and I changed my leadership approach accordingly. This week, we discuss how leadership has changed with the arrival of distance work approaches.

0108 – Leadership Changes and Distance Teams

Why in the world would you want to change an organization from being in an office to being a virtual team? Does it make sense to make your workplace a virtual team environment?  How will your organization finally see the benefits of going virtual? Leadership styles have emerged in the modern workplace related to the […]

0107 – Business Drivers for Distance Work

This week on the DistanceLeader podcast, we’re going to take a look at developing effective criteria for distance work as both a leader and for your team.

0106-Selective virtualization: criteria for virtual work

This week on the DistanceLeader podcast, we’re going to take a look at testing out distance working opportunities, along with potential distance working pitfalls and how to avoid them. We start with the research identifying some of the distance working pitfalls, and then focus the rest of the show on different strategies for being as effective as a distance leader. Some of the topics include different communication and facilitation strategies, the exploration of collocation practices when necessary, and identifying the leadership stress points when things aren't going as expected.

0105 – Preparing for Distance Leading and Teaming

Virtual and distance teams need a different type of leader! On the Distance Leader podcast, we discuss tools, resources, and strategies for being a stronger leader, whether in a collocated, virtual, or blended work environment. Visit DistanceLeader.com to learn more.

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