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Here’s How to Manage Post-Pandemic Remote Work Teams in 2021 – Part Three

May 14, 2021 Kevin Kenealy Manage Post-Pandemic Remote Work Teams Comments Off on Here’s How to Manage Post-Pandemic Remote Work Teams in 2021 – Part Three
Here's How to Manage Post-Pandemic Remote Work Teams in 2021 - Part One by The Payroll Compan C

The steps described here are straightforward but not a piece of cake. They mandate time on your part, direct focus, and sticking with each of them. Your remote work team in 2021 will appreciate your efforts; they will enjoy their jobs and be more effective because you took the time to communicate with them and stick with them through these difficult times.   

Supervisors and managers of employees remote working at home should follow these steps:

Hone In On End Results, Not on Tasks

Honing on results will grow employee commitment and give them the power they need to do their best. Spelling out desired outcomes and then giving employees the leeway to determine an action plan to make them happen will grow their inventiveness and commitment to the results. 

Spell Out the Reasons for the End Results

Spelling out reasons connects the previously described steps. Spelling out the reason is paramount for cognitively tying employees to the company’s agreed results. However, with the current upheaval in the workplace occurring due to the pandemic, and with new workplaces, new goals, new issues, significant levels of difficulties and unusual, unique circumstances, making sure your entire team is fully informed about the company’s desired results and what each person roll is in making success happen is the foundation of building a successful remote work team. 

Supply the Tools Needed for Success

In history, there has never been a successful leader in a war that sent their soldiers into battle minus the needed tools, training, and supplies. Remote workers need good desktop computers, big-screen monitors, laptops, premium WiFi, headsets, and high-quality web cameras. For your remote team workers to be successful, they need to be equipped right. 

Take Away Roadblocks

You must know there will be roadblocks employees encounter when remotely working. Things like being alone, kids at home-schooling, neighbors coming over, family communicating with your staff more often because they are at work and not at home are all roadblocks that will hurt their productivity. Your job is to determine what those roadblocks are and help your employee figure out ways to prevent them from occurring or help them manage them when they do. 

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Promote connecting socially with coworkers when working remotely 

Communicate to your remote staff that you require that they set up regularly scheduled fun events everyone can join. Those events can be video conferencing happy hours, pizza parties, or an after 4 p.m. Friday happy hour. These activities can be games or any number of fun things to do. These should not happen all the time, like weekly, but need to occur at least once monthly.

Be Open to Offering Work Schedule Adaptability

Remote workers all have different lives. Keep this in mind when their work setting to work remotely is not ideal. For instance, some remote workers have children or parents at home. Their internet connection might be at the local coffeehouse. Remote team managers that adapt to employees’ unique situations get rewarded with a commitment on their part. 

Show Understanding

Particularly in the framework of the sudden change to remote work, managers must communicate to their employees that you recognize their worries and struggles and support them as they make the transition. Studies have shown that employees lean on their manager for direction on how to manage and deal with a significant change or an overly burdensome new set of work settings. Be supportive, and you will realize better results in the end. 

Be a Mentor and Coach to Realize Success 

Managing is a lost art form, and that is because the best managers coach and mentor and give employees the freedom to figure things out, be successful and grow in the process.


Here’s How to Manage Post-Pandemic Remote Work Teams in 2021 – Part Two

May 12, 2021 Kevin Kenealy Manage Post-Pandemic Remote Work Teams Comments Off on Here’s How to Manage Post-Pandemic Remote Work Teams in 2021 – Part Two
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25% of the U.S. workforce worked remotely before the pandemic of 2020.  It is an innovative business move to consider the advice, tips and strategies, and best methods of managers leading teams of remote workers before the pandemic happened.  It would make sense to set down company policies and training for remote-work employees, but this may not be feasible when problems arise, and circumstances change. On a positive note, with the advent of modern management knowledge and techniques, there are known actions company managers and supervisors can do, minus little to no trouble to enhance the daily actions and output of employees working remotely. The time to make these management actions to improve and maintain remote-work employee daily productivity is today.

Supervisors and managers of employees remote working at home should follow these steps:

Set up the Company Calendar with a Daily Check-In Meeting 

Holding a meeting every day may come across as overzealous, but for both managers and remote workers, for success to happen, these meetings must happen daily. Meetings establish and maintain a connection that is not possible via text, phone, or email. 

Communicate, Communicate, Communicate

On top of a quick daily meeting, communicating is a must about team daily tasks and duties, accountabilities, and company goals. When working in an office, sharing can be difficult, but it can be impossible when remote working. To be successful, build communication into a manager’s and employee’s daily interactive routine. 

Make the Most of 2020s and 2021s High-Tech Tools

Since the pandemic arrived in 2020, it has pushed most businesses to use today’s high-tech tools within days or weeks because of our circumstances now. Companies hold Online meetings daily using Google Meetings, Zoom, and Microsoft teams. Daily meetings and communicating all the time are a breeze using these tools. 

Create Meeting Rules 

Meeting rules are essential because efficient, effective use of time is critical if meetings and communication will be part of everyone’s daily routine. Remote work will be enhanced and gratifying when managers create meeting rules with respect to time, date, and meeting agenda. IM can be employed when communication must happen immediately, and daily meetings can be done using video conferencing when doing your short daily meeting. Share meeting info and even IM content when and where warranted. 

Communicate Information and Belief in Outcomes 

Communication is more important now than ever due to the current climate. Keep in mind companies have had to change more now than ever. That means keeping everyone informed and getting staff commitment about commitment on agreed goals and outcomes. 

The steps described here are straightforward but not a piece of cake. They mandate time on your part, direct focus, and sticking with each of them. Your remote work team in 2021 will appreciate your efforts; they will enjoy their jobs and be more effective because you took the time to communicate with them and stick with them through these difficult times.   


Here’s How to Manage Post-Pandemic Remote Work Teams in 2021 – Part One

May 10, 2021 Kevin Kenealy Manage Post-Pandemic Remote Work Teams Comments Off on Here’s How to Manage Post-Pandemic Remote Work Teams in 2021 – Part One
Here's How to Manage Post-Pandemic Remote Work Teams in 2021 - Part One
Here’s How to Manage Post-Pandemic Remote Work Teams in 2021 – Part One

25% of the U.S. workforce worked remotely before the pandemic of 2020.  It is an innovative business move to consider the advice, tips and strategies, and best methods of managers leading teams of remote workers before the pandemic happened.  It would make sense to set down company policies and training for remote-work employees, but this may not be feasible when problems arise, and circumstances change. On a positive note, with the advent of modern management knowledge and techniques, there are known actions company managers and supervisors can do, minus little to no trouble to enhance the daily actions and output of employees working remotely. The time to make these management actions to improve and maintain remote-work employee daily productivity is today.

Widespread Task Productivity Issues 

To begin, supervisors must know the issues that remote work makes particularly challenging and complex. It is wise to consider these issues in 2021 because top workers might start lagging in work performance and job commitment as remote work begins and then continues for the foreseeable future. It will be particularly true if there is no planning or hands-on preparation. 

Because of these factors, many drive companies now have blatantly lazy or subtly uncommitted. Now take it one more step and consider employees with laissez-faire attitudes are becoming remote workers and think about how it will negatively affect their daily work habits, output, and commitment to the company’s goals. 

Negative issues built into remote work are as follows:

· No direct in-person manager observation

· Reduction of sources of essential company data, information, and news  

· Working alone equals lack of socialization

· Negative impact of working at home and its inherent distractions 

Steps Manager Can Follow to Improve Management of Remote Worker Teams

Despite the ongoing pitfalls and problems associated with remote work, steps managers can take that do not cost much to improve the change-over for employees working at home. 

As much as remote work can be fraught with challenges, there are also relatively quick and inexpensive things that managers can do to ease the transition. 

The steps described here are straightforward but not a piece of cake. They mandate time on your part, direct focus, and sticking with each of them. Your remote work team in 2021 will appreciate your efforts; they will enjoy their jobs and be more effective because you took the time to communicate with them and stick with them through these difficult times.   


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