Building connections with your team is essential to a strong and efficient work environment. However, when managing a remote team it is more crucial that you stay “connected” with the team.

One way to do this is by having one-on-one meetings with your team members. It is a great way to connect with your employees on an individual level, understand their strengths and collaborate on solving problems together in order to work towards a common goal.

Company culture is a huge part of a successful company. Replicating the culture from an at-work environment to an at-home experience may be difficult but can be very rewarding in the long run. Mirroring the same company culture for those who are remote means finding a way to keep them involved and always included.

Team building exercises and communicating with your employees is a great start. 

Being both flexible and setting goals as an employer is a great way to keep employees involved and motivated at work. By setting both long and short term goals for your employees, it gives you a way to measure their performance and productivity and allows you to connect with them one on one.

Goal setting should be outlined clearly so both employees and employers have a clear understanding of what needs to be done and what has already been completed.

Flexibility outside of the traditional 9 to 5 workspace is a great way to allow employees to strive and be productive on their own time. Allowing your employees to work when they feel they are the most productive will ultimately provide the best quality work at any given time. Try focusing more on the quality and amount of work that gets done as opposed to the amount of time the employee is working. 

The more often an employee receives feedback the more likely they are to remain productive and engaged in the workspace. This is no different for the employees who are working remotely. By keeping them engaged and using 360 performance reviews to measure their work performance allows you to build trust and set goals.

A benchmark as an employer is to ask yourself how many times in a day did you stop for a quick chat, or ask your team how a project is coming along?

Managing employees remotely can be effective if done correctly. It does look a little different than an in-house structure but with the right approach you can boost the performance of your staff. Contact us for a free demo and learn how you can use our tools to build a connected work culture for your organization.

Grapevine provides an online 360-degree feedback employee evaluation software tool that makes it easy to perform a 360-degree evaluation, employee performance evaluation, employee assessment and employee performance review all using our online multi rater employee evaluation software survey system.