Tips for virtual team leaders: Teach your employees to manage up

Managing a virtual team is like managing a traditional team on steroids. If miscommunications and blurry understandings of responsibility will hurt you in an office-based team, theyll torpedo your work if your team is hundreds of miles away. (On the upside, research indicates that youre less likely to be irked by the human foibles and political intrigues of your co-workers when youre not forced into close daily proximity.)

Which means that while tried-and-true management practices like setting measurable goals, holding people to account and praising success continue to hold in a virtual team setting, other aspects of being a boss need to be beefed up and refined for the specific case of remote teams. What are these essential tweaks for managing virtually? Blog Workshifting recently came... [via WebWorkerDaily]