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A great example of 'your impact is greater than you think'. How often do we talk to friends and family about the interactions (positive and negative) in our jobs? And how often do they talk to us? An experience at work (again positive or negative) has the power to traverse the dinner table and also impact the people who love us.
It sounded to me like there's an opportunity here to be mindful and humanise people when we experience negative behaviours. Instead of labelling the person 'bad' we can choose to look at their decisions, and the impact of them, providing us with an opportunity to step up and give critical feedback. If rushing off to the media indicates a lack of trust, what's the step before that we could try to rebuild trust?
Great article Ben. One way to think about this reminded me of mapping out the buyer’s journey. As a leader of a remote team, you could map out the remote worker’s journey and conduct remote worker interviews (akin to customer interviews) to understand how you could harness and improve the remote worker experience (bonus, this approach is open).
But it’s not all on the shoulders of leaders either. As a remote worker you can boost your cred of being someone people want to connect with remotely by having good video, lighting, and audio in meetings (a.k.a not looking like the backlit, voice modulated, CIA informant). Being available in your online communication channels and providing value over opinion helps greatly too. Think of yourself as being the remote worker that people delight in having on their team.