Moving forward: How to manage your team remotely
The world is changing at an unexpectedly fast pace. As stated in Time; “working from home is no longer a privilege, it’s a necessity.” However, many managers are unfamiliar with managing employees working from home. The Deloitte survey shows that before the crisis, around 25% of respondents were working from home at least once a […]
5 Tips To Keep and Improve Employee Motivation and Engagement During Work From Home
How you treat your employees during these uncertain times speaks highly of your company culture and the company leadership. With uncertainty, fear and additional challenges in everyone’s life, it becomes harder for employees to bring their best self to work every day. However, these times call for employees at all levels to be even more […]
How to Foster Learning and Development in Distributed Teams
Learning and Development opportunities (or L&D) have become one of the key factors for top candidates to apply for an open position. Apart from top talent usually showing a growth mindset, L&D also represent a very practical and rational advantage. This could relate to staying up to date on the latest technologies, learning new and […]
How to build a great remote team culture
One of the toughest questions asked by remote work opponents is how to establish a successful and healthy company culture with a distributed team. Granted, building and cultivating your company’s unique culture is challenging anyway, but especially tough when your employees are scattered across the globe. It is, however, certainly possible. In general, company culture […]
How Successful Remote Teams Manage Mental Health
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.” — Wendy Mass Mental health challenges for remote workers In Part I of our Remote Best Practices series, we mentioned how remote and dispersed teams have less opportunities for in-person or in the hallway discussions, which may hurt team cohesion and […]
How High-Performing Distributed Teams Tackle Their Communication Challenges
Why do some companies have higher performing remote teams than others? We researched and interviewed successful remote teams to collect best practices and actionable strategies to set up, manage and develop remote teams. First up, communication. The Challenges of Communication in Dispersed Teams Remote, hybrid and dispersed teams naturally have a (minor) competitive disadvantage to […]