We know that the best managers are those able to lead a cohesive team to ensure everything goes to plan – a skill especially important for managing today’s blended, dispersed workforce, with some working from home and others in the office. But in trying to achieve this, it’s often easy to forget that people respond differently to change and problems which, if unnoticed or poorly managed, can lead to a fractured team. How team members react to change and team-based problem solving can also be a lot harder to gauge when working remotely.

In this article from Management Issues, Dr Curt Friedel considers how team members respond to their managers as leaders, and how their approach to solving problems can affect team productivity.

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