Distance Leader

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.

Communication as a distance leader should be considered as one of your most important activities. In this episode, we discuss multiple approaches and resources for communicating more effectively.

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.

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.

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.

Guiding questions for this episodeWhy 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? Here's the summary - the podcast episode is also […]

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.

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.

Communication as a distance leader should be considered as one of your most important activities. In this episode, we discuss multiple approaches and resources for communicating more effectively.

Organizations are always in a state of change, and Dr. Warner Burke’s classic text on organizational change does much more than just cover the basics. Instead, in this well-researched text, Dr. Burke’s comprehensive review of existing organizational change theories and the Burke-Litwin causal model of organizational performance and change provide an outstanding comprehensive exploration of how to examine and contribute to organizational change.

In this podcast episode, we look more closely at the drivers of organizational change, and how they might be useful tools for effective leadership.