Today, I'm going to talk about the tricks and the tips and the hacks and the best practices for managing remote teams. Now, the first thing we have to recognize is that managing remote teams is very different than managing captive teams. Now, it would be easy to believe that the exact same leadership principles and managerial principles apply, but the truth of the matter is, they really don't. So we have to begin from that trajectory of realizing that, you know, this is a very, very different discipline. So from that beginning, let's talk about those differences. You know, what are the key differences is that your team members are feeling isolated, they're feeling disconnected. Oftentimes, they're distracted, they have many things that are going against them that could adversely impact their quality of life, and also significantly, adversely impact their productivity, presenteeism, and output yield. So what we really want to do here is we want to make sure that we serve these amazing people who wake up every day to serve our mission. So I believe that any good leader should always begin the process from the perspective of looking at the quality of work life as the foundation for their leadership skills while managing remote workers. What do I mean by that? Look, if we want them to be productive, if we want them to serve our mission, if we want them to do the things we want team members to do? We first and foremost have to make sure they're okay. You know, it's not easy for many people to create what I call compartmentalization. And that's one of the first things I'd like you to think about. compartmentalization suggests that an employee is happy and productive to the extent that they compartmentalize work, and home. Now, there are two aspects to compartmentalization. One is the fact that they have to compartmentalize themselves physically, we know that we can have far more productive employees that are far more happy. If they can go to a physical space that feels like a workspace, that's a way from distraction, where they can really feel kind of emotionally that they are at work. The other thing that is important to this whole scenario is that in their physical space of compartmentalization that feels like an office, they also have to be in a psychic space. And that's why most of the successful workers that work from home, create environments that really look like a work environment. If you're working from your couch, you're probably not going to be very productive. And you're also going to always feel like you're at work yet, you're gonna feel like you're never at work, you're gonna feel like you're always at home, you're gonna feel like you're never at home, it's really important to create the visibility, through compartmentalization, both spatially and psychically. That's my first recommendation. Now, the other thing is, is that we want to really be able to increase engagement and the management of productivity and yield. Here's something that's interesting. And I've used this method with my consulting clients with tremendous, tremendous success is it turns out that your team wants really clear and crisp and very specific direction every single day, without it feeling like specific direction every single day. And in this presentation, I'm going to talk to you about the way in which we use sprints that are agile, that are fast, that are measurable, and they're really received well by your teams, we're gonna, we're gonna build out weekly sprints, because that's the way the best organizations are providing a beautiful experience for their teams, while also serving their enterprise goals of productivity and presenteeism.