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Mastering The Art Of Distributed Leadership: Lessons From Atlassian’s “Team Anywhere” Program

Allwork

Teams spread across locations and time zones might be working from home, or might meet in the office. Individual focused work, asynchronous communication and video conferences tend to be better remotely. Dean agreed balancing remote and in-person time is key for optimizing productivity.

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How to Create a Powerful, Future-Proof Culture for Remote and Decentralized Teams

Allwork

If you have a customer-is-always-right policy, describe what’s required to support it. Although many companies had to make a dramatic shift in office policies since the pandemic, goLance has been a fully remote company from the start, with the infrastructure, communications, and processes in place for this environment.

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Practically Perfect PA

I will be presenting on this very topic at the conference. Additionally if you have equipped your manager with all of the information they need to deal with any emergencies, they will be able to cope without you being there to help, particularly if they are in a different time zone.

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When you suspect a co-worker has a substance abuse problem.

Laughing all the Way to Work

it requires a firm culture that discusses recovery openly and strongly support it -both in action and written policy. and hopefully, they have supportive procedures and policies in place to help them." This is usually a lot of "talk" in companies.but little real support for it. in my experience. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.

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Leading and Working with a Multi-VA Team

Denise Aday

That if you maintain a good communication flow via your daily collaboration tools, then team meetings don’t add enough value to warrant the hassle of trying to get everyone together at the same time across time zones. I tend to agree for the most part. This would more often than not be a gathering of contractors, not employees.