Experiencing “you” in a remote setting

Here’s the scenario I’m working on:

I can’t experience everything that you are, and everything that you bring, in our office. As a company, we’re either transitioning to becoming fully remote, or we have a hybrid setup in place. You, being out of sight as you do your work successfully and without problems, become “out of mind.” You may have become the best performer on the team, but I won’t think of you when it’s time to look at performance-based promotions.

So, what do we do to remedy this?

Well… I’m working on an idea.

Open communication and “writing as a leader” are two skills that we seem to be asking of our remote teams today, based on everything I’m seeing.

But what if there’s another skill that we can lean on: creating an engaging experience through our remote work environment?

Or, going one step deeper, what if we’re already creating an experience for our teams as remote leaders?

What if we just haven’t put that name on what it is we’re doing, when we become open communicators or when we write effectively?

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