#2: Stop leading like it's 2019 🙌

Expert of the week: Rebecca Cullum (Leadership and Culture Consultant working with leaders and teams to build innovative and future-focused team culture)

Leadership in a distributed team: Don’t get stuck leading like its 2019:

🗣 Communicate like your life depends on it: Communicate more than you think you need to and allow space for questions and clarification in team meetings. 

🤝 Connection is key: Prioritise regular connection points during the week. Find the chat/channel tool that works for your team and role model using it to connect daily.

🗓 Re-think the week: Allocate remote days concentrated on focused work and online meetings; and office days concentrated on socializing, team building, and sharing vision. Don’t accept online meetings on office days!

👀 No ‘one size fits all’: Each team will have different requirements so get input from your team on what they need to do their best work. Create a team agreement and trust them to deliver. 

📄 Focus on behaviors: Agree on team behaviors and document them to provide the basis for development and mentoring conversations. This is especially useful for new and younger team members.  

💡 Allow space for new ideas: We are just at the start of this new way of working and there is so much unexplored territory. Stay open to new ways of working and new tools. 

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