What Goldilocks Got Right

Bears may hate Goldilocks, but remote workers can learn a thing or two from her.

We're celebrating Async August all month, and this edition is packed with tips to help async teams overcome their biggest hurdles - like miscommunication, channel overload, underperformance, and burnout.

🤔 How?

By creating a collaborative Goldilocks environment.

🤔 Huh?

Keep on reading, rebel!

xo, Andrew

🐻 Are your async team problems becoming unBEARable?

Everyone makes mistakes, but they can take longer to catch in a dysfunctional asynchronous environment.

As a remote manager, it’s your job to gauge the team temperature so that you can catch the signs of underperformance or burnout.

…And nip them in the bud.

This week, we take a byte out of productive asynchronous collaboration with a method that helps managers find and fix common async issues.

🌀 Learn how:

➡️ Every team member's 'just right' is unique: too many Slack notifications may feel 'too hot' for some, while rare check-ins are 'too cold' for others.

➡️ Just like Goldilocks, it's all about finding the right temperature that's neither too hot nor too cold, but just right. Harmony inspires productivity after all.

➡️ Too cold teams tank performance: Under-communicating teammates and delayed handovers make for a chilly remote environment.

➡️ Too hot teams eventually implode: Overflowing communication channels and never-ending virtual meetings boil everyone's patience!

⚡ Get Signs and Solves

🌟 For those facing channel overload: Trim down, pick the most efficient platforms, and, communicate your choices.

🌟 Battling virtual meeting fatigue? Let's cool it! Not every meeting needs video. In fact, you'll avoid burning out if you record more and video less.

🌟 Handover hiccups? Find out how to make it a team sport, encouraging openness about progress.

🥣 Learn to use the Goldilocks method to find your team’s ‘just right’ in this week’s article!🥣

👉 Read the full article: Fix Async Collaboration Mistakes with This One Method 👈

😍 Is your career as fulfilling as food or sex?

Not many people can say that, not even remote workers!

Too often you have to sacrifice your paycheck for your passion, or you get stuck hating your job - but you stay because it pays well.

💕 What if you love what you do AND you’re paid well for it?

I’d argue that’s when career alignment happens and it’s the start of something great. To get there you have to respond YES to the daily RSVP in the relentless pursuit of remote success. I recently caught up with a man who did just that.

In the latest episode of Out of Office, I'm on a yacht in the Bosphorus Strait in Turkey, chatting to Tolgahan Albayrak (a former Crossover alum).

Tolgahan has managed to successfully achieve all of his career goals. He’s still on the rise, and obsessed with what he does.

🎬 Watch this episode to discover how he turned passion into profit, along with the unconventional moves that set him on this amazing remote journey.

📌 It’s an episode worth bookmarking!

·        Tolgahan shares the secret to fulfillment in your remote career

·        Discover how an Egyptian market can help you find a breakout opportunity

·        Hear how he sidestepped economic turmoil & instability in Turkey

·        Explore his success addiction and what drives him to give back to the world

·        Find out about his next big project…it’s super hush hush!

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📼 Watch 40+ Out of Office episodes on Crossover's YouTube channel.

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🧠 Dr Tsipursky Says Remote Work Changed Our Brains

• We’re more susceptible to office distractions now.

⏸️ An Alanis-Worthy Irony Today from Zoom

• Zoom calls remote workers who live close by, back to the office.

🚫 LA Times Says They’re Never Going Back

• Working remotely means less racism.

💸 New York Wants to Tax Telecommuters

• Bloomberg says New Jersey is fighting back.

📑 Bloomberg Shares a New Scoop Tech Remote Work Study

• Companies with hybrid/remote work win talent 2X faster.

😎 Which habits should you adopt to become a kick-ass remote leader?

Managing async teams isn’t easy.

Even the best managers have to troubleshoot their way through obstacles on a regular basis. And all that fixing means the development of good habits!

This week we zoomed in on the habits of highly successful remote leaders. You know, the ones who make doing a-million-and-one-things look easy.

🔥 Here is what they do every day.🔥

✅ Get 7 practical habits that you can adopt right away

✅ See how these high-flyers put their habits to good use

✅ Find out which of these habits you’ve potentially overlooked

🎯 Read the entire article now 🎯

💻 What would your perfect remote workspace look like?

We encouraged our remote community to share their wildest imaginings – and we were not disappointed!

🤣 These were some of the funniest comments we’ve ever read.

Which of these amazing setups resonates with you? We quite liked a combination – a house in the jungle with a standing treadmill (and a rack full of dark chocolate). 

Radically Remote is the new biweekly newsletter for remote leaders who want to stay on the pulse but don't have time for a snoozefest. Rebel with us!

Here's to working, managing and hiring remotely. Forever.

🖐 What problems crop up in your async team? Let us know in the comments!

Andrew Allen is the VP of Content Marketing at Crossover. He lives in Auckland, New Zealand and has worked for Crossover since early 2021.

His superpower is using storytelling and humor to create memorable insights on complex topics. Learn more about him (and meet his doggos) here.