From the course: Leading at a Distance (2019)
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The remote team member's perspective
From the course: Leading at a Distance (2019)
The remote team member's perspective
- Alice has two remote team members, both are equally good at their jobs and Alice has an equally high regard for their work. Recently, she got feedback from each of them with interesting results. One, said, "Alice is a micromanager and she's always up in my work." The other said, "I wish Alice would check in a little more frequently, I don't feel like she knows what I'm doing or cares about what I'm doing." The interesting thing is that Alice has this exact same process. She reaches out to them at the same sort of timeline. She treats them both equally and yet neither one is happy with the results of her work. You've heard of the golden rule, treat others the way you want to be treated. It sounds good, it makes sense and we probably have all been taught to live by it in some ways. And yet that's what Alice was doing. Treating both of her folks equally in a way that she thought would work. And yet she's getting less…
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