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Top 10 Hacks To Help Manage Remote Teams More Effectively
Katy Cracknell • January 29, 2021
Many of us have learnt over the past 12 months that it can be challenging managing a remote team and, as a leader, it can provide you with your fair share of headaches.
Here are out top 10 hacks to help you manage your remote teams a little more effectively.
1. Agree ways of working with your team and be clear about how you will keep each other updated and how frequently.
2. Outline your expectations and trust your employees to get on with their work without micromanaging them. Focus on results rather the level of online activity and remember that the majority of people can be trusted. Where you feel that somebody is taking advantage deal with this on a case-by-case basis.
3. Make sure that your employees have the right equipment and support that they need. This isn’t limited to laptops and the typical IT items but should include mentoring and knowing that there is a virtual door open for them if they have any issues or concerns.
4. Have a daily team call or huddle to ensure that the entire team is keeping connected and so that individuals are connecting on a regular basis. It doesn’t need to be a long meeting but keeping it regular is key.
5. Agree how you will measure individuals progress and success and remember that working long hours does not necessarily mean that employees are being effective.
6. Working from home means that picking up information in passing becomes a lot more challenging.
Make sure that you are sharing information on a regular basis and encourage your employees to do the same so that you can continue to learn and improve collectively.
7. Communicate regularly
and not just when things go wrong and, focus on well-being by making time for more informal conversations with the team whether this be 1 on 1 or in a wider setting.
8. Be aware of the language that you are using in your communications. When employees are more isolated, they can become more anxious and an email that you think is constructive and positive can easily be misinterpreted by employees.
9. Read between the lines! Not being in the same physical space as employees means that you can’t interpret their body language so, listen for changes in tone so that you can home in on what isn’t being said.
10. Keep to your usual routine and where possible continue to have regular 1-2-1’s, team meeting and performance reviews. Maintaining a sense of structure and continuity for employees is crucial.
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