Episode 129 - Laura Miller | Leading Through the New Reality of Remote Work

Are you trying to navigate the reality of remote workers and team members? Do you want to better understand what it takes to successfully build and lead a business with remote team members? Are you looking for insights and tools for leading a remote team, whether fully, hybrid or otherwise?

Our special guest Laura Miller answers these and other questions about leadership, culture and doing business in a remote worker world.

Laura Miller is the Founder and CEO of TempDev, a nationwide healthcare information technology consulting firm that specializes in NextGen EPM and EHR development. She combines an engineering background with business savvy to create holistic and sustainable solutions with positive financial and operational impacts.

Over the past fourteen years, Laura has led and built a business with an entire team that works from home, including herself. Laura knows well the keys to leading, building culture, collaborating, innovating, communicating, and serving clients in a remote work model.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

The basics of a remote workforce
The challenges of bringing people back to the office who don’t want to go back to the office
Financial realities of remote working in terms of compensation, cost of living, etc.
Key values to team members of working from home
Challenges of taking care of children while working remotely
Collaboration and innovation also happen with remote working
Pros and cons of remote working
Importance of boundaries and routines when working remotely
Overwork and burnout risks when working remotely
Leaders must pay attention to the impact of their personal choices around work and remote work
Productivity and remote work
Pros, cons, risks and rewards of using employee work tracking software with remote workers
Understanding the importance of and determining key performance indicators (KPI’s)
Shifting the focus from time productivity to outcome productivity
Role of existing trust levels in impacting employee response to monitoring programs
Killing your peoples’ productivity by over-meeting your remote workers
What’s the cost of your meetings?
Remote working requires great technology and different approaches to communication
Today’s workforce requires more empathetic leadership
What would you do if you could not fail?