Leaders of hybrid teams where employees alternate between working in the office and working remotely face the challenge of providing flexibility while maintaining group effectiveness and cohesion. The author describes the CAARE framework, a new approach to leading hybrid work that combines the elements of configuration, autonomy-alignment, relationships, and equity to help leaders balance individual flexibility with group effectiveness.

If you think sophisticated communication technologies are the ticket to your virtual team's success, think again. It's not the tech that matters -it's how people use it. New research reveals five strategies for conquering distance and improving communication and performance in dispersed teams. The same strategies can help co-located teams, which depend increasingly on virtual [...]