Leading a virtual team: life work balance
February 24, 2021Last month, we, that is my whole team, blogged about celebrating three years as a virtual team! It was really, really enjoyable and rewarding for me as CEO to read the words and hear the voices of all of my colleagues. I am so grateful that some took the plunge to blog for the first time and others made time to contribute in the face of a big workload. It was a big deal for us as a team to mark the start of year four as a virtual team – a digitally and geographically distributed organisation. Where many other…
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Maren Deepwell
Charity CEO in EdTech. Ethical, open leadership. Feminist. She/her
