Seven Tips for Virtual Managers - Part 1

04/30/20 • 35 min

#07 Seven Tips for Virtual Managers Part 1
New virtual manager? We've got highly actionable tips to get you headed in the right direction.
These are things you must get in the habit of doing regularly or your team's performance will suffer. Even if you're an experienced leader, doing it in a remote environment takes a few tweaks to dial it in.
Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Dare To Lead by Brene Brown
Radical Candor by Kim Scott
Radical Candor Podcast
"Paint Done" - our favorite clarity prompt (from Dare To Lead)
The Effectiveness of Management-By-Walking-Around (HBS)

In The News: Some Fun Stuff This Week

Don't be this guy: Commissioner Resigns After He Threw a Cat During Zoom Meeting

Looking for a quick way to boost moral on your zoom calls? Maybe a goat (or llama) can help. Sweet Farms will drop into a meeting and surprise your team with one of their animals. Oh, and they're actually booked out quite a bit.

Goat-2-Meeting
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Dare To Lead by Brene Brown
Radical Candor by Kim Scott
Radical Candor Podcast
"Paint Done" - our favorite clarity prompt (from Dare To Lead)
The Effectiveness of Management-By-Walking-Around (HBS)

In The News: Some Fun Stuff This Week

Don't be this guy: Commissioner Resigns After He Threw a Cat During Zoom Meeting

Goat-2-Meeting
Become a Virtual Business Insider and get all our guides as they're released!
Download our Slack Power User Guide

Previous Episode

Why Virtual Meetings Are Better Than IRL Meetings

#06 Meetings are a necesity no matter the size of your organization. From our experience, meetings are even more crucial in a virtual environment.

Master the techniques and resources in this episode and you'll discover your virtual meetings are even more effective than your co-located meetings.
Resources Mentioned In This Episode

ScheduleOnce: for external scheduling (what we use)
Acuity Scheduling: for external scheduling
Caldnely: for external scheduling
Google Calendar sharing settings (G-Suite)
Wold Time Buddy
Skype Call Recorder

Classic "work from home" fail during a live TV interview 😂
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Seven Tips for Virtual Managers - Part 2

#08 Are you a virtual manager? We’ve got highly actionable tips to get you headed in the right direction.

These are things you must get in the habit of doing regularly or your team’s performance will suffer. Even if you’re an experienced leader, doing it in a remote environment takes a few tweaks to dial it in.

Be sure you also check out Part 1 of this episode (#07).

Resources Mentioned In This Episode

1-on-1 Questions

Don't stress about the agenda. Having a great agenda for a 1-on-1 is way less important than just doing the 1-on-1 in the first place. Remember, these are coaching calls.

If you're short on ideas or need a jump start to get over that "blank paper" fear, here are some of our favorite questions.

Ang's favorite questions: