Sean GlazeWorkplace Culture Speaker | Facilitator, Great Results Team Building · Leadership lessons from the locker room that change how your people work together.

CAN REMOTE OR HYBRID TEAMS OUTPERFORM IN PERSON ORGANIZATIONS

14 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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In this concise talk, the speaker argues that hybrid and fully remote teams can indeed outperform traditional in‑person organizations, but the decisive factor is the quality of leadership. Remote or hybrid settings amplify a manager’s strengths or weaknesses, making communication, clarity, and connection essential. The speaker stresses that productivity should be measured by impact, progress, and contribution rather than physical presence or seat time. Effective remote leadership involves facilitating purposeful team meetings, conducting valuable one‑on‑one conversations, setting clear expectations and standards, delivering consistent feedback, and providing meaningful recognition. When these practices are in place, remote and hybrid teams can achieve high performance comparable to or exceeding that of co‑located teams.

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So can hybrid or remote teams actually outperform in-person organizations? The reality is yes, and managers will always determine results. Remote or hybrid situations simply magnify leadership strengths or flaws. Productivity is not about proximity. What it requires is communication to ensure clarity and connection. Many people think that the issue with hybrid is distance, but it's more about disconnection. And clarity in communication are needed if successful leaders are going to lead remote teams. You want to measure the impact of your team, not by their seat time, but by their progress and contribution. Many roles can be very productive without being in person every day, but remote managers must know how to facilitate team meetings and have valuable one-on-ones and set clear expectations and standards and share feedback and then provide meaningful recognition. That's what effective leaders do.