Embrace Delegation as a Skill to Strengthen Remote Teams

Managers of remote teams who improve their delegation skills can help solve the biggest impediment to their success: virtual distance.

Lebene Soga, Ben Laker, Yemisi Bolade-Ogunfodun, and Marcello Mariani

October 19, 2021

In our ever-growing remote work culture, teams are increasingly vulnerable to virtual distance. Its three dimensions — physical, operational, and affinity distance — play critical roles in how well teams work together in a virtual environment and, particularly, in how managers delegate. Physical distance relates to the geographic distance between workers, while operational distance characterizes organizational processes that have the potential to facilitate or impede ...