We were electrified by two simple words in this interview: "community leader." We've all felt how much more enjoyable and effective work can be when we're collaborating with people we have mutual trust, respect, and care for. By extension, Charlene Lee, head of product and design at Radar, points out, building effective teams means building community.

“You'll Manage Challenge” episodes put theory into action, providing you a clear, achievable next step to up your management game within a week. In Episode 7, CEO and co-founder of Remote Job van der Voort shared his passion for remote working and the incredible freedom and flexibility it brings. This week's challenge is about looking for ways to bring a bit of those benefits to yourself and your team, even if your organization is far from going fully remote.

CEO and founder of Remote Job van der Voort has a message for all of us still adapting to working and managing from home – being forced to learn to operate remotely might be a blessing in disguise. Once the VP of Product at GitLab, another fully-remote organization, Job was so passionate about empowering people to work from anywhere that he left to start a company that specializes in helping other businesses go remote. In this episode, he tells us why – and the lessons all managers can learn from managing remote.

“You'll Manage Challenge” episodes put theory into action, providing you a clear, achievable next step to up your management game within a week. In Episode 5, Tomás Campos revealed to us the one critical question he learned to ask at Uber: “What are your expectations of me as a manager?” It's not always an easy question to answer, though, so this week's Challenge provides some other ways to approach that question and start a conversation.

Early Uber employee Tomás Campos circled the globe launching the service in new cities. Managing teams from different cultures, he discovered how essential it was to ask a simple, yet critical question: “What are your expectations of me as a manager?” Listen in to hear Tomás share some of the painful consequences he faced before he learned to always ask – and why when he did ask, he says it was “one of the most interesting exercises I've ever gone through in my life.”

“You'll Manage Challenge” episodes put theory into action, providing you a clear, achievable next step to up your management game within a week. In Episode 3 we talked about empowerment, and this week's Challenge will help you, well, challenge your direct reports! Using a four-stage framework, you'll be able to thoughtfully and carefully guide your team towards greater autonomy and responsibility (it's not the deep end or nothing!).

Ever been called a micromanager? Or been told you're too hands off? Startup founders Vic and Maggie learned the hard way to strike the balance — and they revealed to us their secret to empowering a team and unlocking their superhuman strength to tackle new, daunting challenges. What frameworks helped them foster a culture of empowerment that enabled them to build the world’s most successful pet camera company? Press play to find out.

"You'll Manage Challenge" episodes put theory into action, providing you a clear, achievable next step to up your management game within a week. Following Episode 1's focus on career conversations, this week's Challenge is all about better understanding what makes your direct reports tick. After all, before you can help your direct report to develop their careers, you need to understand them as a person.

We have been geeking out about people management for a long time. Learn why we care so much, why we started You'll Manage, and how we hope it will help you in your journey to become the manager everyone wants to work for!

Do you know what your direct reports want out of their careers? Leadership & development expert Steph Wong makes the case that it is your job as a manager to know. Steph shares with us the approaches and tools she uses to guide people in developing their careers, and how meaningful career conversations can help your team do their best work – at their current jobs, and beyond.