6 Essential Skills for effectively managing remote teams
When you manage a remote team, you always need to find the best way of helping them succeed. You need to pay attention to their well-being, because you care about them and also because good work requires people to feel good and creativity sometimes needs comfort.
Having strong communication is a priority. Developing organizational and self-management skills and helping them feel supported and connected will mean a big difference in how daily life works in your team.
Andrea Rojas, Head of Recruiting, shares these pillars of remote team management that are both very helpful and inspiring.
- Asynchronous collaboration. 🤜🤛
This is a fact while working remote: you’ll need to facilitate asynchronous collaboration. You can do this much easier using tools such as Figma, Google Docs, Notion, among others.
2. Agile decision-making. ⚡
It is very important to the workflow that the teams have ownership of their tasks and can make their own decisions. As well as the autonomy of each member of the team. Making them feel confident and providing them with kind constructive feedback will encourage them to make their own decisions and take the initiative.
3. Trust your team. 🤝
Trust is a way of encouraging people and in this case is also very important to yourself, feeling that you can also rely on them if you need to.
4. Realistic goals and expectations. 🚀
If your goals aren’t realistic you’ll end up frustrated a lot of times, feeling that time’s never enough and that you’re not doing a good job, when maybe it's just that you need to set goals that match your team's capacity.
5. Invest time in creating bonds. 😊.
Connections and relationships will make your work even more meaningful. Do not underestimate the importance of connecting with each other to build a strong collaborative and compromised team.
6. Reward team achievements as an incentive 👏.
If you often feel that once you achieve a goal you’re already running behind the next one, maybe it is a good time to pay attention to having the opportunity to celebrate, recognize the team’s achievements and reward them.
Would you add any other pillars to these?
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