Leadership
In 3-5 thoughtful pages, reflect on your personal leadership style and approach, and the best practices of leaders or managers who navigate this world of either gig workers or remote teams.
1. Discuss what you do well. What are your strengths in leading either remote teams or gig workers? What should you KEEP doing? It is helpful if you make these specific and behavioral to the extent possible. Rather than I communicate well, what do you actually do that leads you to the conclusion that you communicate well? I send an email to all of my remote team members weekly following up on key accomplishments of the week. I pop in on my remote team members to say hi and spend a few minutes chit-chatting to build the relationship.
2. Identify what you should stop doing. What are you doing that’s just getting in your own way? What should you STOP doing? Again, be as specific as you can. Continuing on the communication example. As soon as I see something that has gone sideways, I reach out to the remote team member and give them a good talking to so it doesn’t happen again. I make all the decisions for the remote team since it’s so hard to get them together.
3. Finally, what needs to be tweaked? What needs to be FIXED? These are things that you’re doing that just need a bit of polish to really move the needle in terms of your leadership. For example, I send an email to all of my remote team members weekly. . that may be too infrequently, or too expected. I need to change the frequency to make it more “fun” and less “report.”