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29 Tips for Very Effective Remote Managers and Workers

How to make you and your team extremely happy and productive.

Sarah Milstein
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14 min readMar 12, 2020

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These days, there are lots of guides for remote work, with lots of good ideas. But the logistics and social dynamics of successful remote arrangements can be quite subtle.

I’ve been working on and leading remote teams for two decades, and I’m going to share a bunch of tips that I’ve seen covered rarely or never before. When you know these, you can be more intentional, and thus more successful, on distributed teams.

First, let’s note that not all distributed teams are the same. There are fully remote teams with no shared physical space; partially remote teams where some people work in an office and others work from home; satellite offices where people work in the company’s physical spaces but not in the same ones as their teammates; and various variations on these themes. Many of the tips here apply equally to each of these setups. But some setups — in particular those in which many people are in one office and others are not — require deeper diagnoses and more systemic solutions to really thrive.

In addition, there can be different roles in distributed work. They may include people who manage distributed teams or who manage individuals in another location; individuals who…

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Sarah Milstein
Sarah Milstein

Written by Sarah Milstein

Leadership coach for execs and emerging leaders. Formerly: Daily, ConvertKit, Mailchimp, 18F, Indie, Lean Startup, O’Reilly Media, more. www.sarahmilstein.com

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