465: How to Lead a Remote Team, with Susan Gerke

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

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🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Susan Gerke: GO Team Susan Gerke has been the president of Gerke Consulting & Development. She has worked with global teams and has certified facilitators around the world to deliver management, leadership, and team offerings. Susan is co-creator of GO Team, a training suite for organizations to power team performance. Key Points Out of sight sometimes means out of mind. Perception of communication will be less than you think. Interactions over the phone/video feel more formal than they do in person, at least at the start. You don’t find out about things virtually as quickly as you do face to face. Figure out how to make space for different kinds of styles and personalities. A virtual environment tends to amplify these differences. Remember to have expectation setting conversations with family members. Some people will call you every day and some people won’t ever reach out proactively. That’s normal — find a pattern that works for each relationship. Resources Mentioned GO Team Survey results: community input on leading/working virtually Related Episodes The Four Unique Types of Teams, with Susan Gerke (episode 138) How to Create Team Guidelines, with Susan Gerke (episode 192) How to Balance Care and Accountability When Leading Virtually, with Jonathan Raymond (episode 464) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	Working virtually isn't the same as working in person. On this episode
0:04.5	Susan Gerke returns to share the time-tested principles of how to lead a virtual team.
0:09.9	This is coaching for, episode 465.
0:14.0	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:19.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your
0:28.4	host Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born, they're made.
0:33.8	And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom
0:36.9	through insightful conversations.
0:39.8	One of the most popular conversations I've been having over the last few weeks is how do I lead a virtual team.
0:47.5	Today I'm glad to welcome back to the show Susan Gerke who is an expert on team leadership and has many years of
0:55.9	experience in teaching leaders how to lead virtually.
1:00.1	Susan has been the president for many years of Gerky Consulting and Development.
1:05.0	She's worked with global teams and a certified facilitators around the world to deliver management, leadership, and team offerings, including doing courses for us in the past.
1:14.6	Susan is the creator of Go Team, a training suite for organizations to power team
1:20.4	performance. Susan, I am so glad to have you back on the show.
1:24.6	And I'm glad to be back, Dave. When we started having this conversation about a week ago
1:30.1	about leading virtual teams, I had no idea as much as you and I have worked together
1:35.7	over the years how much you have done of this work over the years and I was surprised that
1:41.3	back in 1995 IBM was looking to you to begin teaching leaders how to do this, weren't they?
1:50.6	Yeah, it was really a fun assignment. A couple of my colleagues and I were
1:54.4	tasked with putting together curriculum for our leaders so that they could more
1:59.1	effectively lead the people that they no longer sat near in their offices as they started to have more and more
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