Managers today have a tall order. While they have traditionally always had to navigate being “in the middle” the evolving workplace and shift to hybrid/remote work has required them to think and work in new ways.
Whether it’s navigating the diverse need and desires of employees, enforcing work policies that they did not decide on, or trying to construct and coordinate how work gets done with people everywhere, it can seem like a never ending tug of war for managers in figuring out how to lead effectively in a way that gets things done and keeps people engaged.
Doing this well, especially with the realities of our knowledge worker workplace, of distributed teams, meetings, digital technology, and lots of interruptions is not always easy.
To be sure, this was true before the pandemic. Interruptions in your work day before the pandemic. And meetings have long been the bane of existence for companies for decades.
But it’s clear, today, we need to find ways to improve the ways in which we work, in our global, connected, and distributed working world.
