For many companies, remote leadership has become part of management habits, initiated by the Covid crisis in 2020. Whether we’re talking about the digitalization of work or the rise of telecommuting, it’s now essential to have the keys in hand to successfully manage remote teamwork.
The importance of remote communication
In order to communicate clearly, it’s essential to follow a number of steps. Expectations must be defined in advance and made explicit: explain objectives, roles and responsibilities to avoid misunderstandings.
Good communication enables the team to be more proactive and confident about the work carried out.
The keys to good remote management
- Use the right tools: This means favoring intuitive applications that are within everyone’s reach. For example, for remote meetings, some of the best-known are Zoom, Slack or Teams. Other project management tools, such as Trello, help with collaboration and task tracking.
- Regular feedback: It’s important to maintain constant, constructive feedback to ensure continuous improvement.
- Empower your employees: By giving them new responsibilities, you also give them self-confidence. A confident employee is a more productive employee. This helps maintain commitment and motivation.
- Be transparent: When something doesn’t go as planned, it’s necessary to react, but also to ensure that information flows freely between each stakeholder.
- Be grateful: It’s important to recognize employees’ efforts and successes, in order to maintain a good general state of mind. It also has a significant impact on employees’ well-being and mental health. Sometimes, simple gestures of recognition are appreciated and spur employees on to give their best.
- Create a sense of belonging: Make sure you emphasize the company culture, for example, by setting up rituals: informal meetings, virtual team building… This ensures that every member feels included and considered, regardless of their location.
- Managing and preventing conflict: Tensions and misunderstandings need to be taken seriously before they escalate. This can be resolved through active listening.
- Foster cohesion: Set up team projects to encourage collaboration and the exchange of ideas.
In addition to these key points, it will be necessary to set up remote performance management tools using clear, measurable KPIs, in order to verify the benefits of good remote management.
In this way, the team will be more proactive and able to collaborate more easily.
