#Beingaleader in today’s world means you have to lead virtually. Zoom. Email. Focused on the task but also building the culture you want. In the cloud. “Seeing” them but not really. Working on the tone of your emails to stop or at least not start, misunderstandings.
#Beingaleader means you have to learn to lead virtually. It may not come naturally. And it is different in many ways than in-person leadership. You have to pay attention. You need to learn not to double task. And you need to focus and not let your mind wander just because they are not in your presence when they are speaking.
#Beingaleader means you need to get better at Zoom communication. Oh how we have done Zoom calls this past year. They have become the norm. The hated norm in many cases. Dealing with technology. Etiquette. Communication patterns. Facial and non-verbal expressions. Let’s all work on getting better at this. Intentionally. Hopefully, we’re better at it today than we were at the beginning of the pandemic.
#Beingaleader means you need to get better at email communication. This is a hard skill to learn. It takes thought and often, time. Time that you often don’t seem to have. Thought is intentional. So is time. And quite frankly, these are the two hardest things to apply given the volume of emails and other communications that those in the business world receive on a daily basis. I’ve tried to apply a 10 second rule for responding even if that isn’t really ‘time’ spent thinking about it. Too often without even this amount of reflection, it is easy to send a badly worded communication or one that reflects emotion that you did not intend to show.
#Beingaleader means you need to lead virtually. Please get better at this. Your team is deserving of this.
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