Leaders: Remember You Have Superpowers

As leaders of a remote team, it is easier to get down on ourselves. We aren’t getting the participation from our team we’d like. People aren’t honest with us about how their work is going, and we think everything is fine only to have fires pop up in the least likely places. We feel powerless. It seems funny then that others think of you as a superhero (or villain, depending on the day) imbued with mighty abilities beyond those of mere mortals. Seriously, people fear you even if you don’t want them to. And that’s even more true when you work apart from your team.
Don’t believe me, do you?
Here are some of the superpowers you are rumored to have, like it or not:
The ability to stop all work with a single sentence.
Put yourself in a team member’s shoes for a minute: You’re working away, and 5 words come across