Trust, patience, relationship-building skills: 3 must-haves for remote managers | Devex

Trust, patience, relationship-building skills: 3 must-haves for remote managers | Devex: "In both countries, Oxfam had decided that de la Torre Sans would operate the programs from afar — from Nairobi, Kenya. He helped build a remote management system for Somalia that “paid off largely once al-Shaabab expelled all international nongovernmental organizations in 2008,” he said, and did the same later for South Sudan.  

Managing humanitarian aid effort is a challenge in itself, but remote management ushers in an entirely new set of uncertainties and questions about what’s happening on the ground — and from a managerial perspective, it raises questions of what type of manager might be a good fit for the job."



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