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WFH Is Here to Stay—How To Manage a Remote Team Effectively?

HR Digest

Establishing clear guidelines, fostering trust and engagement, leveraging collaboration tools, and providing ongoing support is key to managing a remote team effectively. To avoid communication breakdowns, misunderstandings, and the dreaded “I thought you meant…” scenarios, establishing clear guidelines is crucial.

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Managing Remote Teams: Best Practices for Leading a Distributed Workforce

HR Digest

With advancements in technology and the ability to work from anywhere, remote work has become a viable option for many organizations. It is essential to establish guidelines for communication, work hours, deadlines, and project expectations. Managing remote teams has become increasingly common in today’s workplace.

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Put the “and” Back in “Sales and Marketing”

Harvard Business Review

Create a technology engine that powers the front lines. Investing in better and more useful technologies is critical for sales to move more quickly and effectively on the leads that marketing can uncover. But for all the potential technology provides, it’s important not to lose sight of what the point is. The result?

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How to Be a Family-Friendly Boss

Harvard Business Review

He was able to spend time building his lifetime bond with his daughter, and to be present throughout her one and only (and all-too-fleeting) childhood. So here are a few guidelines for well-meaning supervisors who want to provide for more flexibility: Focus on What, Not How or When. Further, you can role-model working more flexibly.

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How to Prepare for Maternity Leave

Harvard Business Review

Yet few organizations offer clear guidelines on the nuts-and-bolts of managing leave. Even if there are no formal guidelines that apply to your particular situation, all is not lost. Allison Falender is a technology manager at Shell, who is currently planning a maternity leave for the birth of her third son in September.

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What It Was Like to Be a Manager in Ukraine

Harvard Business Review

Throughout it all, we provided constant communications with status updates, decisions, changes, and guidelines for how to act and react appropriately to the level of crisis at hand. We called this bonding “tent time.” Each person on my team had different skill sets and personalities.

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When You've Done Enough, Do More

Harvard Business Review

These steps are action guidelines all of us can use to get things done with people in ways that not only yield great results, but also strengthen relationships and enhance credibility. We interviewed over 100 high-impact influencers from a wide range of industries and organizations for our recent book.