“Working remotely can be challenging for managers and their reports. A powerful part of a group or team’s effectiveness is the togetherness and the challenge that managers face today is how to recreate that camaraderie in a virtual world.” /5 Ways To Be A Better Manager In A Virtual Work Environment
Here are a few tips that you may find helpful:
✔️“Schedule meetings via video on a weekly or bi-weekly basis.”
✔️ “Help your employees secure resources they need to properly carry out their roles.”
✔️” Give your employees opportunities for growth.”
✔️ “Support employees who may be struggling to balance work and their home life during the coronavirus pandemic.”
The last suggestion really resonates with me. I have recently had a discussion about maintaining a work-life balance with a former colleague of mine who leads a remote team and also has a young child herself. She shared how challenging it is to balance work and her responsibilities as a parent. Her personal strategy is to shift her work schedule a little bit so that she can accommodate both her work and child-care activities.
And as always, I would love to hear from you. If you are a manager of a remote team, how to you support your employees?
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