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How to communicate bad news to your remote team
Have an announcement to make to your team? Don’t mess up these important four principles.
How to hold a remote 1 on 1: Formats for success
Here’s what I know about holding great one-on-ones with your employees; learned over seven years of managing teams between 5 and 75.
Welcome to Been Remote
Remote work can be an easy shift for some companies, but others struggle with the transition and unique pain points of managing a distributed team. We wanted to create a place where managers and employees can both get advice and information on how to make remote work successful.
Happy employees mean better work and a stronger culture. What does it mean to enable employee happiness? Is it impossible to please everyone?
Meet some of our authors
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Adrienne Kmetz
Remote manager & Owner, AKConsulting
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Alessa Hickman
Writer & Educator
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Deanna Seymour
Founder, The Playhouse
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Laarni Paredes
Editor & Journalist
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Jill Felska
Founder, Want to Work There
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Tia Nichole McMillan
PR pro, professor, ex-Navy PAO, Current Sr Director of Communications for Edward Jones
Real culture isn’t built on perks or forced bonding, but on trust, clarity, and how people treat each other when no one is watching. Even online, every small act of empathy shapes whether a team feels human or just transactional.