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- Your team can’t read your mind
Your team can’t read your mind
here’s what to do instead!
👋 Welcome back to All Things Remote: your weekly shortcut to building lean, efficient remote teams without the chaos.
In today’s send:
✅ Why teams keep repeating work (and how to stop this)
✅ The small operational shift that creates instant clarity
✅ Why onboarding shapes long-term performance
✅ 5 ways to hold your team accountable
✅ Virtual holiday ideas for December (because planning season is here)
Also, it’s time to:
Meet your new assistant (who happens to be AI).
Meet Skej — your new scheduling assistant. Whether it’s a coffee intro, a client check-in, or a last-minute reschedule, Skej is on it. Just CC Skej on your emails, and it takes care of everything: checking calendars, suggesting times, and sending out invites.
🧠 Top finds this week
💬 The tough-love advice employees wish they could give their bosses
Candid, sometimes brutal, always useful feedback on what people actually need from leadership.
🎯 5 ways to hold your team accountable
Practical tips and coaching-style questions to keep performance high and relationships healthy.
🏆 The psychology of recognition (+ why it’s your cheapest performance lever)
Backed-by-research breakdown of how praise changes brains, behaviour & business outcomes.
Why work gets done twice (and how to fix it)
Here’s something I hear from founders all the time:
“We’re all working… but somehow not on the same thing.”
It’s not that people are slow.
It’s that everyone is trying their best with slightly different information.
And in remote work, a tiny misalignment becomes a whole extra day of rework.
Let’s break it down, simply.