Around the world, many of us are working remotely because of Covid-19 spreads. Whenever you are working from home or remotely it is difficult to keep the team focused and productive. To overcome this challenge .here are ten management hacks that infuse more meaning to your team.
As it is due to some emergency or as a company’s policy working remotely is now more common than ever and the virtual workplace becomes a reality. According to Remote Work Statistics — 2020 Edition, it is stated that "Companies allowing remote work have 25% lower employee turnover than those that don’t."
Managing remote teams is a new challenge for business leaders and they look for ways for how to effectively manage the remote team and effectively create a workforce environment for the company.
Here are some easy hacks to help you be at your best and make the most of your workday.
1. Lean into the right business tool:
Having a business tool is an important step for creating a healthy and active remote workplace. To better, organize your team and keep them on the same page. Besides Google hangouts and skype there are other good tools that can be used to make alternative work arrangement a success.
1.Slack
2.Trello
3.Last Pass
4.Rocket.chat
While Managing your virtual team make sure that besides tools you have a common communication platform like web chat, video chat, etc.
According to the recent report from Firstpost it is found that the Zoom cloud meeting app Surpass the TikTok, Instagram to become the most downloaded app with 10 crore downloads in the time of Social distancing as a medium to connect with remote co-workers, friends, and relatives.
2. Make use of G.T.D method:
G.T.D aka getting things done is a great method to manage the element of productivity naturally while working remotely, described in the book of the same title as “use of getting things done method” by consultant David Allen.
One of the important benefits of GTD is that it makes it easy to see what you have already in plate and what to work on next.It also has an active emphasis on getting your to-do out of your heating head and into a system you are referring to. This helps in the clarify minds of any mental distraction that will keep you active during work.
This method requires you to follow five easy steps that lead to high productivity with a stress-free workplace.
Collect — capture every aspect that needs your attention.
Process- clarify what you’re doing with each thing and what they mean for you.
Coordinate — Organize the results.
Plan — review the system
Engage — doing the right things
- Effective organized documents platform: In virtual team management, there are a number of documents shared by employees with each other. In this scenario , Dropbox or Google drive has made a life of virtual assistance easier.
If you want to access and edit the same document at the same time, with the help of Google docs or dropbox you can easily get it edited and share with other at the same time. This interface is well-communicated, safe and you will get the peace of mind and you don’t need to worry about the storing.
Wikis- creating Wikis resources where your employees can find all types of information they need — wikis a self-access center for development and trainee. It’ll help to keep all your employees up to date and help everyone to stay on the same pages.
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Thanks for the helpful article!
I use different work management software to help me manage my team ever since we moved to remote work!
Currently using Quire, which is basically a free version of Trello with agile features, to do this.