As a manager, the key traits to focus on whether working remotely or co-located are showing care for team members, helping them grow and learn new skills, clearly communicating expectations, giving regular feedback, encouraging creative problem-solving, setting up the team to do the work that matters, protecting their priorities and work time, and establishing trust. When managing a remote team, it's essential to ask specific questions on video calls or phone calls to show genuine care, help team members grow by making space for cross-functional projects, clearly communicate expectations such as response times and deliverables, give regular feedback, encourage creative problem-solving by finding the right tools and delegating projects, set up the team to do the work that matters by measuring impact rather than hours worked, protect their priorities and work time by understanding conditions that lead to productivity and making space for prioritization conversations.